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The President is dead and the weight of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary work. Ryan had agreed to accept the position of Vice President only as a caretaker for a year. But when the President, most of the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, the... read more

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THE FBI'S EMERGENCY command center on the fifth floor of the Hoover building is an odd-shaped room, roughly triangular and surprisingly small, with room for only fifteen or so people to bump shoulders.

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This is book 9 of 14 in Jack Ryan. (standard series)

Preceded by Debt of Honor, and followed by Rainbow Six.

This is book 2 of 11 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1996. (authoritative list)

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  1. Tom Clancy (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Edward Herrmann (Reader)
  2. Ulli Benedikt (Translator) - German translation (with Götz Burkhardt)
  3. Götz Burkhardt (Translator) - German translation (with Ulli Benedikt)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 13, 1996
ISBN: 0399142185
Page Count: 874

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  • Library of Congress: PS3553.L245 E9 1996
  • Dewey: 813.54

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