Basically the few times I've come across books (or film/TV) where a government has to react to a crisis, I've loved it.
I want something that wholly focuses on things from a political perspective. How the government is responding. For e.g. in the case of, say, an invasion I'm not interested in spies behind enemy lines or troops on the frontline, just the politicians making critical decisions.
Ideally it'd be an international relations/geopolitical incident, but any kind of crisis is also welcome.
I was considering Tom Clancy (I've never read a Tom Clancy), so any recommendations there would be useful (again, as long as it's not focused on agents shooting guns and taking out bad guys, I just want things from the government's perspective).
by The_Pale_Blue_Dot
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Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
A political thriller about a potential military coup in the U.S., this book is heavy on government decision-making, cabinet meetings, and constitutional crisis. Very grounded in political realism.
World War Z by Max Brooks
It’s nominally about a zombie outbreak, but so well informed about disease outbreaks that Max Brooks was invited to do the cable TV rounds during COVID. The whole things is framed as an oral history, mostly with bureaucrats.