Just finished a very interesting book to read during the current Iraq war, Tom Clancy's Executive Orders.
SPOILER
This is the book that inspired the 9/11 events as well as the following anthrax attack. In the book a 747 is flown into the US Congress building and most members of government are killed including the president. Jack Ryan then becomes president and the attack is shortly followed by an Ebola attack on the US and a "fun" detail in the book is that a US general says "This is exactly how we planned it might happened but we used Anthrax instead of Ebola". This all leads to the attack on the United Islamic Republic, UIR (Iran and Iraq is now one country after Saddam has been assassinated by Iran) by US troops and the killing of the UIR leader on live TV. They bomb his house in Teheran.
It was a rather strange feeling reading about US troop movements (very detailed) in Saudi Arabia while at the same the current Iraq war is going on.
Here are all books I have read since 2001.
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