[Howlin]

I bought Executive Orders on September 10th, 2001.

Want to know how I remember exactly when I bought it?

Because I went to sleep reading the first chapter and woke up to the talking about the first plane hitting the WTC.

I thought I was still dreaming. I never picked it back up.

[Bernard Marx]

Interesting and sadly ironic. Clancy got that right but it didn't require a lot of imagination in the first place, especially after the guy who flew a light plane into the White House early in the Clinton years. The possibility has been driving the SS nuts for years.

I mentioned E.O. only because a previous Clancy novel was a bore and because the 2-1/4 - inch thick paperback is still reposing on top of my bookshelf gathering dust. My "escape" reading this week is "The Ancient World of the Celts" by Peter Berresford Ellis.

[altair]

I thought I was still dreaming. I never picked it back up.

Perhaps it's just as well. The ebola attack that is the main plotline of the book still gives me nightmares. I had a similar experience to yours when reading Debt of Honor and reaching the final chapter. It was in the first week after the first Republican congress was seated.