num_pages: 1273
description: 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.
language: English
title: Executive Orders
titlecomplete: Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)
characters: Ellen Sumter, Pat Martin, Ali Badrayn, Captain Sato, Arnie van Damm, Scott Adler, Dr. Moudi, Aref Raman, Gus Lorenz, Ernie Brown & Pete Holbrook, Cliff Rutledge, Mary Pat Foley, Tom Donner, Dave James, Marcella Hilton, George Winston, Jack Ryan Sr*, Roy Altman, Carol Zimmer, Tony Bretano, Ding Chavez, Bob Holtzman, Daryaei, MOVIE STAR, John Plumber, Cathy Ryan, Bert Vasco, Gennady Bondarenko, Gwendolyn Merritt, Mr. Alahad, Gen. John Pickett, Michael Brennan, Callie Weston, Ben Goodley, Marion Diggs, Ed Kealty, John Clark*, Ed Foley, Sister Jean Baptiste, President Grushavoy, Sergey Golovko, Don Russell, Ralph Forster, Ali Bin Sheik, Mogataru Koga, Col. Hank Goodman, Pat O'Day, Zhang Han San, Mordecai Azir, Robby Jackson, Tony Caruso, Col. Pierre Alexandre, Andrea Price, Liz Elliott
genres: Politics, Thriller, Espionage, Military Fiction, Suspense, War, Action, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 49394
places: Baltimore, Maryland, Tehran, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia
series: Jack Ryan Universe, Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan Universe (Publication Order)
publisher: HarperCollins