EXECUTIVE ORDERS

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Inscribed to, and from the library of the multi-award winning crime writer Dick Francis. Publisher's original quarter blue cloth with silver titles to the spine and blue paper covered boards, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and alas, without previous owner's marks. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($27.95 to the upper front flap). A Jack Ryan novel.

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the half title "To Dick Francis / Fellow scribe / Tom Clancy". A fabulous association copy linking two international titans of crime and espionage fiction. Throughout the 1990s, it would have been a rare occurrence not to find either Tom Clancy, or Dick Francis, who shared both US (Putnam) and UK (Michael Joseph) publishers, heading the bestseller list for fiction.