Executive Orders

1358 pages yes 1358 of Tom Clancy and now the nightmare is finally over!! This book took me a year to read, not because of its length but because it's incredibly boring for loooong stretches, I would set it aside for months at a time. The beginning was good and the ending (the last 300 pages was gri......more

This book is the pinnacle of the Jack Ryan series of novels. We finally see Jack Ryan, reluctantly and tragically, become President of the United States. He hates it, and sees it as a curse. The problem is that he is good at it. The very fact that he doesn't want to be there makes him all the more a......more

This was a 1358 page book - but it never felt slow and I was enthralled throughout. While sometimes Clancy's military maneuver segments were a bit over my head, they were interspersed with enough other action to keep it moving. A big thing I noticed about this book is that even though it was written i......more

This picks up right from the ending point of the last book. One really needs to read that book before this one. Jack is now president of the country after the devastating events that hit the country. Is he ready for it as domestic people and leaders of foreign countries question his leadership and t......more

I enjoyed this one. Jack Ryan becoming the president after a terrorist attack and the story takes off. My only gripe was the book was very long. I think it could have been cut down by several hundred pages...maybe even 600 or so.......more