House is blown to smithereens in ''Independence Day,'' those tired of the whole exhausting media-soaked process get Jack Ryan.) (I mustĪdmit to wondering, What liberal media empire? In the 1970's, those tired of crime got ''Dirty Harry.'' In the 90's, when a jaded and disgusted pre-election citizenry is jumping to its feet when the White Over Iraq) for launching the deadly Ebola virus against us, but also to recognize Taiwan, the better to stick it to the heirs of Mao Zedong, and along the way to turn the psychological tide on the evil Liberal Media Empire. He gets not only to go after the Iranian ''ragheads'' (who have, incidentally, solved one problem by taking Clancy, disguised as Ryan, to act out his innermost secret fantasy and become President for 874 pages.

agent, opponent of abortion rights, and what Oliver North always wanted to be - has temporarilyīecome Vice President of the United States owing to a sex scandal involving his predecessor (Jack Ryan, I believe, has yet to experience an errant erection).

In inimitable Clancy fashion, ''Executive Orders'' would have us believe that Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford in two movies) - rogue C.I.A. Clancy's latest, makes the memoirs of Richard Nixon (1,120 pages) seem far more entertaining, if not as Inside every Tom Clancy novel is a thin Ian Fleming waiting to get out. Is a DEFINITE PASS, pending of course a NEW SCRIPT. But the real problem is that Ryan has little to do here,Īnd without his beating up Russians (''The Hunt for Red October'') or taking down Colombian drug lords (''Clear and Present Danger''), this will be a major disappointment for Clancy fans and Moments before the crash, is forced to take over the Presidency, fight the Iranians (who have launched an Ebola virus threat), declare martial law, prevent a bloody kidnapping attempt on his daughter and finally save the country.ĬOMMENT: Unfortunately, most of the book is about what's wrong with America and how Jack Ryan can make it a better place (not the kind of place Oliver Stone would like). The inexperienced Veep, Special Agent Jack Ryan, who had been sworn in only

LOGLINE: The President, Congress and the Supreme Court are wiped out when a Japanese airline pilot turned terrorist crash-dives a 747 into the Capitol. LOCATION: Mostly Washington but also the world.

Clear and present danger novel