Pre-order the pulse-racing new Jack Ryan thriller, TOM CLANCY DEFENSE PROTOCOL, now! ________________ ''A top-notch novelist for anyone who loves a powerful story'' Boston Globe The US President, along with most of the Cabinet and Congress, is dead. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President of the United States is told that he is now President. President John Patrick Ryan.

With stunning force, Ryan''s responsibilities crush on him. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, all while attempting to reconstitute a Cabinet and a Congress with the greatest possible speed. But that is not all.

Both within Washington DC and across the globe, there are those eager to act on the animosity towards the United States and others from Jack Ryan''s past that harbour a grudge towards the new President himself. Soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so big even he cannot imagine it. ___________ Reader reviews for EXECUTIVE ORDERS ''Tom Clancy at his best - political intrigue, military detail, plot'' ''I do not know how he manages to keep all the plot lines so cohesive, but he does'' ''I have read Clancy tales for years. This is amongst the best'' ''Excellent Read.

Lots of players and twists'' ''I would recommend this to anyone, great book for taking on holidays, absolute bliss lying on a lounger at the beach, the water gently lapping and being engrossed in this book''