Jack Ryan · Book 8
Executive Orders
- Published
- 1 July 1996
- Pages
- 1101
- ISBN-13
- 9783455008562
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 1,101 pages, Executive Orders (1996) is the longest book in the Jack Ryan series -- the eighth entry, preceding Rainbow Six, and a high-water mark for the dense, procedural style Clancy built his reputation on.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Executive Orders is book 8 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Debt of Honor. It is followed by Rainbow Six. See the full Jack Ryan reading order.
Jack Ryan starts the series as a CIA analyst who stumbles into a Soviet submarine defection and rises, book by book, to national security adviser and eventually President of the United States — one of the most sustained "ordinary competent man in extraordinary circumstances" arcs in thriller fiction. Tom Clancy built his name on techno-thriller density: real weapons systems, real geopolitics, and enough procedural detail about submarines, fighter jets and intelligence tradecraft that the books doubled as…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9783455008562