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Executive Orders |
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| Book: Paperback: Mass Market | 4.29 x 6.88in | 1376 pages | ISBN 9780425158630 | 01 Aug 1997 | Berkley | 18 years |
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The President is dead--and the weight, literally, of the world falls on
Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel.
I don't know what to do. Where's the manual, the training course, for this
job? Whom do I ask? Where do I go?
Debt of Honor ended with Tom Clancy's most
shocking conclusion ever; a joint session of Congress destroyed, the President dead,
most of the Cabinet and the Congress dead, the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs
likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed
as the new Vice-President of the United States is told that he is now President.
President John Patrick Ryan.
And that is where Executive Orders begins. Ryan had
agreed to accept the vice-presidency only as a caretaker for a year, and now, suddenly
an incalculable weight has fallen on his shoulders. How do you run a government
without a government? Where do you even begin? With stunning force, Ryan's
responsibilities crush on him. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, allay the
skepticism of the world's leaders, conduct a swift investigation of the tragedy, and
arrange a massive state funeral--all while attempting to reconstitute a Cabinet and a
Congress with the greatest possible speed.
But that is not all. Many eyes are on him now, and many of them are unfriendly.
In Beijing, Tehran, and other world capitals, including Washington D.C., there are
those eager to take advantage where they may, some of whom bear a deep animus
toward the United States--some of whom, from Ryan's past, harbor intense animosity
toward the new President himself. Soon they will begin to move on their
opportunities; soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so big even he cannot
imagine it.
Tom Clancy has written remarkable novels before, but nothing comparable to
the timeliness and drama of Executive Orders. Filled with the exceptional
realism and intricate plotting that are his hallmarks, it attests to the words of the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "This man can tell a story."
"Undoubtedly Clancy's best
yet." —Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
"Clancy, the longtime top gun of the military thriller, has
taken a major step toward becoming something even
better: a top-notch novelist for anyone who loves a
powerful story...What sets this book apart is that for the
first time, Clancy has gotten inside Jack Ryan's head,
finally letting us see the real person behind the
super-action hero."
—Boston Globe
"A wild ride...Clancy's storytelling gifts are unmatched in
the political/military thriller genre. Executive Orders has
everything the Tom Clancy lover needs: An unholy
pantheon of foreign heads of state, bomber militia men,
sleeper assassins, kidnapping terrorists, good men gone
bad and bad men gone worse."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"[Clancy's] in top form. Executive Orders is more complex,
more thoughtful, more exciting than anything he's written
before."
—Detroit News
"There is no doubting the wizardry of his craft...he is the
honest-to-God creator of an exciting genre and a consistent
producer of books that thunder, absorb, and entertain."
—Los Angeles Times
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