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Overview

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."

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At 896 pages, half a million words and nearly four pounds, Clancy's new novel is a bruiser. It packs a whale of a wallop too, starting with a knock-down premise set up in Debt of Honor, which ended with a jetliner crashing into the Capitol, taking out the president, congress, the cabinet and the Supreme Court justices. As the new novel opens, longtime Clancy hero Jack Ryan, named minutes before the crash to the post of V.P., has just been sworn in as chief of state. What's it like to be thrust into the world's hottest hotseat? Clancy has, in effect, written three novels in one here. The first, running about 200 pages, deals with that question in brilliant detail the crushing of Ryan's personal life as he's sucked into the vortex of presidential duty and scrutiny; the tentative acceptance of ultimate power and responsibility as he realizes he is The Man. Within this scenario, Clancy seeds his other major story lines. Domestic opposition to Ryan and to his grassroots American values is stirred up by venal politicos, fat cats and corrupt media types as Ryan tries to rebuild the government along conservative lines. Foreign trouble arises in Iran, meanwhile, which subsumes Iraq and unleashes biological warfare on the U.S., allowing Clancy to toss in a medical thriller-within-a-thriller that holds its own with Cook and Palmer. Like a savvy crooner saving his hit songs for the encore, Clancy waits until his final 150 pages to give readers the stuff that put him on the map: here, strutted in a fury of air, sea and land battles between Yanks and "rag-heads." As usual, Clancy offers no moral middle ground, only white hats and black; he also soapboxes mercilessly for a radically right agenda. He's a war-gamer without peer, though, and his plotting here is masterful, as is his strumming of patriotic heartstrings. This is heavyweight entertainment, and come pub date it's going to be the world champion of the bestseller lists.
Library Journal
Jack Ryan, Clancy's amazing upwardly mobile series hero, must put together a government from the wreckage left at the end of Debt of Honor (Putnam, 1994). While Jack, who assumed the U.S. presidency after the shocking deaths of the president and many congresspeople, attends to affairs of state, selecting a new Cabinet and arranging for special Congressional elections, enemies far and near continue to create nefarious plots against the United States. Political enemies prove themselves equally relentless, attacking the very legitimacy of Ryan's presidential role. While Clancy is, as always, chillingly up-to-date, he telegraphs too many plotlines here. Worse, Ryan has become something of a whiner, complaining at length about the miseries of living a political life. At almost 900 pages, the book includes too much minutiae and dwells overlong on Ryan's earlier adventures. However, with a two-million-copy first printing, Ryan's presence at least for now is assured in most public libraries.Elsa Pendleton, Boeing Information Services, Inc., Ridgecrest, Cal.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780425158630
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/28/1997
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 1376
  • Sales rank: 77,917
  • Lexile: 0960L (what's this?)
  • Series: Jack Ryan Series
  • Product dimensions: 4.31 (w) x 6.89 (h) x 2.05 (d)

Meet the Author

Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy is the bestselling author of The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, Rainbow Six, and more.

About the Reader
Edward Herrmann won a Tony Award for his work on Broadway in Mrs. Warren's Profession.  On television, Mr. Herrmann won the TV Critics' Circle Ward for his portrayal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, one of the most honored productions in the history of television.  His film work includes The Paper Chase, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Mrs. Soffel.

    1. Hometown:
      Huntingtown, Maryland
    1. Date of Birth:
      April 12, 1947
    2. Place of Birth:
      Baltimore, Maryland
    1. Education:
      Loyola High School in Towson, Maryland, 1965; B.A. in English, Loyola College, 1969

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 14, 2005

    No other Clancy book can mirror this one

    This by far was the best book Clancy wrote. I'm no politcal expert, but Ryan's views seemed cool with me, and mixing the politics with the other stuff going on in Iran/Iraq, China, and back home, was masterfully done. I had no problems flyig through this book. And on occassion, I sit down and read through it again, but only the better parts

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 8, 2003

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    Executive Orders by Tom Clancy is about one of the most devastating terrorist acts in the history of the United States. The President, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Supreme Court justices, and most of congress are killed. This act leaves Jack Ryan as the President. He has get things back in order. When things start to go wrong, that¿s when the problems begin. This book has a lot of detail and is very long. The amount of detail is overwhelming in this book. I would recommend this book if you are a devoted Clancy reader.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 4, 2010

    A Must read for true working Americans.

    In todays corrupt Government from the Whitehouse down to local Governments, Tom Clancy has captured a novel idea. If only it were a true happening it would be to all real Americans like winning the Lotto. Read and see the value of such a story.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 27, 2008

    Farewell Clancy

    Clancy has great stories and plots, I would love to actually read through one of his books to absorb the story. After crawling to read through all the unnecessary description and chatter that I find in his books, I haven't finished one yet. I've given up after trying this book and one other, it's too tiring to read them. Sorry Tom, there are books that actually move and hold one's attention and I'm moving on.

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 25, 2004

    Great Clancey book

    This was one of Clancey's best books, but it was way too long and I had a hard time keeping up with it. Too many characters to remember and too many events to remember.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 6, 2003

    Political manifesto thinly disguised as action thriller

    First and foremost, this book is way too long (my copy clocked in at almost 1400 pages!), and it moves way too slow. The marginal plot is mostly an excuse for Clancy to advance his rightward-leaning political views (what do you know, he's a flat-taxer!). Clancy once again stretches the limits of believability by placing his longtime hero/alter-ego in the White House. Various forces conspire against him and the United States, and Ryan is forced to show his mettle. As usual, Clancy's characters are thinly drawn, and their motivation is typically one-dimensional (you're either a good-guy or a baddie). Really, the only reason to read Clancy is for his meticulous plotting, but that is not in evidence here. Clancy's last two books before this one, Without Remorse and Debt of Honor, were also sub-par efforts, so I hope this isn't part of a larger trend. Executive Orders is for die-hard Clancy fans only!

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 23, 2012

    Highly recommend

    Have read all of Jack Ryan series. This is one of the best. Interesting to see how the US government has to be put back together after a terrible catastrophe

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 12, 2012

    Recomend

    This is a very good book, one of Clancy's best. I read it in paperback years ago and m re-reading it on Nook. The Nook version has a lot of spelling and punctuation errors.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 15, 2012

    Superb Reading

    The BEST book that Clancy has written. Great story line and good ending. A good "what if" book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 9, 2012

    Great Book

    I finally have the whole UNABRIDGED Jack Ryan series on CDs. I don't have
    Rainbow Six because I didn't like it and I don't believe that Tom Clancy
    wrote it, someone else did it for him. I also wish that the book Red Rabbit was on MP3 in the Unabridged version instead of the Abridged
    version.

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  • Posted October 24, 2011

    Very Recommended..

    While I enjoyed the plot and the story line I was totally put off by all the typos on my nook book. Maybe it is too much to expect someone to use spell check when retyping these books for the ebooks. But my five year old Grandson could have done as well typing this up.
    But, the story rocked..

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  • Posted May 2, 2011

    Way too long

    I agree with some of the other critics of this book, it is way too long. What takes Clancy one paragraphs to describe should have taken a sentence or two. Kind of reminds me of Atlas Shrugged in that regard. Should have been about 1/3 as long as it was. That being said it was very entertaining.

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  • Posted July 18, 2010

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    The greatest Tom Clancy novel ever

    The idea behind this story is brilliant. What if the entire government fell in a terrorist attack and it was up to one man to put it back together again. It is up to Jack Ryan to be that man. It is not necessary to read Debt of Honor to understand what is going on in this story, but it would help. This is Tom Clancy at his best.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 18, 2008

    a reviewer

    this book is about a presedent and the entire u.s. congress along with the members of the supreme court all die in a 747 japinese kamikaze crashed into the capital building in d.c. and the vice president jack ryan takes over and has to rebuild almost the entire government while his wife one of the top sergions in the country is working with eboli patients(just to warn you it has very graphic sergical procedures) while being a mother all at the same time if you like tom clancy books this is a must have.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 7, 2003

    VERY good!

    I have been a clancy fan for quite a few months now and this is his fourth book that I've read and the best one so far. HIGHLY recomended.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 30, 2003

    Clancy's Best

    Very well written novel with lots of action and suspense. Clancy reveals some very scary yet realistic insights on the possibilities of biological warfare, terrorism and many other foreign policy matters.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2003

    A MUST Read

    I loved this book. Tom Clancy has done it again. It's great to see Jack Ryan in such a powerful role.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2003

    Excellent Read

    This novel is LONG (the text is small and the paperback edition is 1300 pages long) but every page is good, almost chilling after 9/11 because Clancy knows what works. This is, personally, my favorite of his titles. It captures his emotions, and a mystrerious character who's doing everything behind the scenes. Though Red Rabbit was dull and uninspired, this novel is Clancy at his finest.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 20, 2003

    Greatest Book EVER!!!

    I can never believe that a book this enjoyable and grabbing could be written. This relates so much to the world's current events and a possible way of ending it. I could not put it down. Clancy can really spin a good yarn.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 13, 2003

    HIS BEST BOOK EVER!!!

    this is his best book I've ever read yet. It was nearly imposible to put down

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