num_pages: 6
description: 4 audiocassettes - 6 hours"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 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 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 in 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 great even he cannot imagine it.
language: English
title: Executive Orders
titlecomplete: Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)
characters: Mr. Alahad, Dave James, Arnie van Damm, Ed Foley, Don Russell, Bert Vasco, Ali Bin Sheik, Col. Hank Goodman, George Winston, Carol Zimmer, Aref Raman, Pat O'Day, Ernie Brown & Pete Holbrook, John Plumber, Liz Elliott, Ellen Sumter, Gennady Bondarenko, Roy Altman, Ralph Forster, Tony Bretano, Tom Donner, Robby Jackson, President Grushavoy, Callie Weston, Bob Holtzman, Sister Jean Baptiste, Col. Pierre Alexandre, Cliff Rutledge, Marion Diggs, Sergey Golovko, Mogataru Koga, Michael Brennan, Pat Martin, Gen. John Pickett, Jack Ryan Sr*, Andrea Price, Captain Sato, Zhang Han San, Ding Chavez, Gus Lorenz, Tony Caruso, MOVIE STAR, Ali Badrayn, Mordecai Azir, Ed Kealty, Dr. Moudi, Marcella Hilton, Gwendolyn Merritt, Scott Adler, Cathy Ryan, John Clark*, Ben Goodley, Daryaei, Mary Pat Foley
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Action, Politics, Espionage, War, Adventure, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 49395
places: Baltimore, Maryland, Tehran, Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia, Washington, D.C.
series: Jack Ryan Universe, Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan Universe (Publication Order)
publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group