Executive Orders (Jack Ryan #8) by Tom Clancy

The US President is dead -- and the weight of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel.

At the dramatic climax of his last No 1 bestseller, Debt of Honour, a runaway Jumbo Jet crashes into the Capitol Building in Washington, leaving the President dead, along with most of the Cabinet and Congress. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new caretaker Vice-President is told that he is now President of the United States.

President John Patrick Ryan.

And that is where Executive Orders begins -- as Ryan's new responsibilities crush in upon him with stunning force. But how do you run a government without a government? Where do you even begin? Somehow he must calm an anxious and grieving nation, allay the scpeticism 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.

He knows that the eyes of the world are on him now -- and many of them are unfriendly. In Beijing, in Tehran and even in Washington, there are those eager to take advantage. Some are hostile towards the United States -- some, from Ryan's past, harbour intense animosity towards the new President himself. Soon they will begin to make their moves; soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so great even he could not imagine it.

Tom Clancy has written remarkable novels before, but nothing comparable to the drama of Executive Orders. Filled with the exceptional authenticity, acute political insight and intricate plotting that are his hallmarks, it confirms his position as the world's greatest storyteller.

Genres: Thriller - Military Fiction - Espionage - Action - Suspense - Adventure - Mystery - War - American Author