Just finished re-reading "Executive Orders, by the late Tom Clancy. Came out in 1995 - Clancy passed away in 2013.

Plot revolves around an Iran theocratic dictator who attacks America with Ebola virus, resulting in a shutdown of the country.

The book picks up at the end of "Debt of Honor" (published Aug 1994)as a continuation of the storyline from that book. Japan attempts to knock the US of the top of the world order with a war that included the Japanese getting nukes, they try to destroy the US economy using software (that runs the stock exchange) and setting up trends involving currency and T-bills among other things. The US is already in major turmoil, before the ebola virus attack, as a result of what occurs at the end of "Debt of Honor".

Spoiler Alert-If you read "Executive Orders" before "Debt of Honor" you might screw up the ending of "Debt of Honor".

Both books are stand-alone, but a lot of references in "Executive Orders" are much clearer if you read "Debt of Honor" first as is the world situation. Several storylines/characters continue from the first book (other than Jack and the gang).

Amazing - reading it today - how prescient Clancy was in his description and terminology.

Almost eerie in what's going on now - under slightly different circumstances.

Still - well worth a read.

Ghost

I read all of his books back in the day. Even one aboard a submarine that is sort of a cat and mouse game between the American sub and the Chinese which makes me think about some of the stuff they are doing in the South China Sea today. The Bear and the Dragon was also great even if long. I LOVE books and movies like these. I miss his books. Always extremely knowledgable without being technical to the point where you get bored. I should reread some of them. Especially if they are still relevant.  8)

Pia, aboard a sub, nice.

Being an old school Clancy fan, I've read a lot of his stuff, most I liked. Bear and the Dragon was good one. It's been a while, but I definitely remember it being thick and heavy.  But they're all long. One for sure have to be prepared for that.  Not sure which I'll read next, but it'll be one I haven't yet.