Everything in “Executive Orders” is on the largest scale: Jack Ryan as President, threats at home and abroad, more than 1,200 pages. It picks up directly from “Debt of Honor”. Some readers value its ambition and its study of what leadership costs. Others find it far too slow and say much could be cut, and some warn that its hero’s hawkish conservative views will put off readers who do not share them.

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About the book

Executive Orders is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on July 1, 1996. It picks up immediately where the final events of Debt of Honor (1994) left off, and features now-U.S. President Jack Ryan as he deals with foreign and domestic threats. The book is dedicated to former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who helped launch Clancy's worldwide success as a novelist. The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list.

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The sources average 7.8 across 149 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 50% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.