Jack Ryan · Book 38
Act of Defiance
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by Brian Andrews.
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by Jeffrey Wilson.
- Published
- 1 January 2024
- Pages
- 608
- ISBN-13
- 9780593862346
- Type
- novel
About this book
Act of Defiance (2024) is the thirty-eighth Jack Ryan book, co-written by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson as ghostwriters -- two more names in the rotating slate Penguin Random House has kept cycling through since Clancy's 2013 death. It runs 608 pages.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Act of Defiance is book 38 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Command and Control. It is followed by Shadow State. See the full Jack Ryan reading order.
Jack Ryan starts the series as a CIA analyst who stumbles into a Soviet submarine defection and rises, book by book, to national security adviser and eventually President of the United States — one of the most sustained "ordinary competent man in extraordinary circumstances" arcs in thriller fiction. Tom Clancy built his name on techno-thriller density: real weapons systems, real geopolitics, and enough procedural detail about submarines, fighter jets and intelligence tradecraft that the books doubled as…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781408727881
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593862346