Debt of Honor ended with Clancy's most shocking conclusion ever--a joint session of Congress destroyed, the president dead. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new vice president is now told that is he president--President John Patrick Ryan. Now suddenly, an incalculable weight has fallen on Jack Ryan's shoulders. How do you run a government without a government? Where do you begin? Filled with exceptional realism and intricate plotting, Executive Orders is Clancy's most extraordinary novel to date.