content: After redreading Executive Orders three times, TB&TD comesas a crushing disappointment. The book is rife with typos, repetitive dialogue, longwinded xenophobic discourses and, worst of all, Jack Ryan (and most other characters) appears to have undergone a personality transplant and now curses like a longshoreman. His new VP (identity withheld) is a gross one-dimensional caricature and the dialogue within the CIA is excrutiating. ... Perhaps military technology has outpaced dramtic suspense as one series of bombs can now take out all the opposition. Its a decent first draft but hardly a quality finished product.