Executive orders
Political thriller, ninth in the Jack Ryan series. After a terrorist attack on the Capitol, Jack Ryan of the CIA unexpectedly becomes President of the United States and faces some unique challenges.
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- Mostly off topic, but every time the subject of US taxes comes up I can't help but think about Tom Clancy's Executive Orders. (Spoiler coming) At the beginning of the book the entire US administration except Jack Ryan is killed in a terrorist attack, leaving him President and with the entire government to rebuild. Later in the book one of his advisors tells him something like "This is the only chance in History we will have to make all the hard decisions, all the hard choices we've been too afraid to make. We need to completely overhaul our tax system. This is our chance".
As the years go by and all these plans are killed one after the other I realize how right this guy was.
- > (for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the Tom Clancy book where Iran weaponizes Ebola)
Executive Orders.
IilIRC his last actual book.
- If they closed airports and put up some checkpoints on the interstate to only allow select traffic through, I imagine that would cut travel pretty dramatically.
Courts tend to believe that the Privileges and Immunities Clause gives a constitutional right to travel between states. It would be a big hairy mess. In fiction, Tom Clancy explored it in Executive Orders.
- Overall I read a mix of some sci-fi, business type books, and a little Clancy mixed in.
1. Fear - Bob Woodward (did not actually get too far before dropping it)
2. Radical Candor - Kim Malone Scott (interesting)
3. Black & Decker Complete Guide to Wiring (VERY helpful during my home renovation, did most of my electrical)
4. Pitch Perfect - Bill McGowan (helpful for communication)
5. Quantum Thief/Fractal Price/Causal Angel [Jean le Flambeur series] - Hannu Rajaniemi (I enjoyed the first book in this trilogy the best, the third was too difficult for me to understand! Very hard Sci-fi)
6. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (enjoyed the audio production from BBC radio)
7. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu (enjoyed several of the short stories very much)
8. Revelation Space/Chasm City/Redemption Ark/Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds (love the series but it is long!)
9. Executive Orders - Tom Clancy (not my favorite Clancy book but still fun)
10. Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy (also not my favorite Clancy book, a little more fun than Executive Orders though)
While waiting for the next Game of Thrones book I picked up a few new series that I really enjoyed! I hope to get a few new suggestions out of this list.
The Expanse - James Corey
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Broken Earth - NK Jemisin
Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin (translated: Ken Liu)
- Same shelf Stephen King is Tom Clancy's "Executive Orders" (2nd from far left).
