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Executive Orders

Jack Ryan, Book 8

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The US President, along with most of the Cabinet and Congress, is dead. 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.

With stunning force, Ryan's responsibilities crush on him. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, all while attempting to reconstitute a Cabinet and a Congress with the greatest possible speed.

But that is not all. Both within Washington DC and across the globe, there are those eager to act on the animosity towards the United States and others from Jack Ryan's past that harbour a grudge towards the new President himself. Soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so big even he cannot imagine it.

©1996 Jack Ryan Limited Partnership (P)1996 Books on Tape Inc Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction Military American president Exciting War Middle East

Critic reviews

"His plotting here is masterful, as is his strumming of patriotic heartstrings. This is heavyweight entertainment." ( Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)
"Vintage Clancy ... The conclusion features the most harrowing battlefield prose Clancy has written since Red Storm Rising." ( Bookpage)
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book it brings home all day true dangers of the real life and see how we mad deal with them .

good book as normal thay take time to get into

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Would you consider the audio edition of Executive Orders to be better than the print version?

Yes, in that every last detail is presented. The danger with reading an exciting book is that you skip on too fast to find out what happens next. Much better to listen to every word properly.

What other book might you compare Executive Orders to, and why?

Clear and present danger.

What does Michael Prichard bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Every detail is clear.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Kept me awake while on a long boring drive!

The thriller of thrillers, hold on to your hats.

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As always a great Tom Clancy book, but it was let down by the choice of reader. Why was a reader who can't pronounce even basic words properly chosen? Several times short lived was pronounced as though 'live' was being used as live music not as it is is 'I live in a house'. Also the voice was too flat and featureless - a problem that is common to people with deep bass voices. The experience would have been so much better had a reader with a more flexible tonal range been chosen.

Good book, shame about the narration

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This is another Clancy story displaying the author's talent to build up to the climax and then illustrate that ultimately human values remain the final outcome. The narration is masterfully executed.

A well woven story.

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Not Mr Clancy's finest, the story was predictable throughout. The reading suffered as Mr Prichard - while good at a mock-Russian accent - seems to use the same accent for all other non-American characters. Jarring, where that charactet is Chinese or Scottish but still sounds like the former head of the KGB.

Overblown

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