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After an airliner crashes into the Capitol, killing the president, Jack Ryan, the vice-president takes over. The novel describes Ryan's campaign to impose a right-wing morality on the U.S. and a new order on the world, the latter accomplished with the aid of high-tech warfare. A sequel to Debt of Honor. Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat of military takeover and covert biological warfare.

Published Reviews

Publisher's Weekly Review: "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. Two million first printing; $800,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Series	Jack Ryan thriller (publication date order) Features Jack Ryan, Sr., a CIA Deputy Director of Central Intelligence who eventually serves two terms as President of the United States #1 - The Hunt for Red October #2 - Patriot games #3 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin #4 - Clear and present danger #5 - The Sum of all fears #6 - Debt of honor #7 - Executive orders #8 - Red rabbit #9 - Command authority #10 - Full force and effect #11 - Commander in chief #12 - True faith and allegiance #13 - Power and empire #14 - Oath of office #15 - Code of honor #16 - Shadow of the dragon #17 - Chain of command #18 - Red winter
Subjects	Ryan, Jack, Sr. (Fictitious character) Fiction National security United States Fiction Presidents United States Fiction Biological warfare Fiction Literature Thriller Suspense Fiction United States Politics and government Fiction. Electronic books. Adventure fiction. Spy stories.
Publisher	New York :Penguin Group US,1997 Penguin Publishing Group1997
Contributors	OverDrive, Inc.
Language	English
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web. Format: Adobe EPUB eBook Format: Adobe PDF eBook Format: Kindle Book Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle
Description	1 online resource
ISBN	9781101002353 9781101000557
Other	Classic View