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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The Foundation Trilogy is basically governments responding to major crises across a span of millennia
As you already mentioned Tom Clancy, I would recommend his book Red Storm Rising. It gives you the big picture view of a fictional World War III between the Soviet Union and the United States.
[the plague](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11989) by Camus which tells the story of how a city respond to a plague cluster. It is poignant, gripping and extremely well written. One of the best books I have ever read
Maybe Kim Stanley Robinson’s *The Ministry For The Future* would fit.. just. It’s a damned good book anyway!
It’s a Roman Empire-style government, so it depends how you feel about something set that far back in the past, but K. J. Parker’ **Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City** is phenomenal and sounds like exactly what you’re looking for.