Tom Clancy's Chain of Command

THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER IN TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN SERIES - INSPIRATION FOR THE BLOCKBUSTER AMAZON PRIME TV SERIESAmerica is under attack from within. Patients in hospitals, clinics, and at home are dying when the drugs they need for survival turn out to be ineffective copies. A corrupt pharmaceutical billionaire has spent millions supporting radical groups while using the chaos they engender to cover his money-making schemes, but for a man with such towering ambitions, the only real goal is power.To get that, he'll have to eliminate the only impediment in his path - President Jack Ryan. The question is, how do you attack the most closely guarded man in the world?For a man who has built his fortune on underhanded dealings and misdirection, the answer is as simple as it is shocking:He'll have to kidnap the First Lady. PRAISE FOR TOM CLANCY'Exhilarating.No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict' Sunday Times'A brilliantly constructed thriller that packs a punch' Daily Mail'A virtuoso display of page-turning talent' Sunday Express'Heart-stopping action . . .entertaining and eminently topical' Washington Post