Jack Ryan · Book 4
Clear and Present Danger
- Published
- 17 August 1989
- Pages
- 688
- ISBN-13
- 9780399134401
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1989 and sitting between The Cardinal of the Kremlin and The Sum of All Fears, Clear and Present Danger is one of Clancy's longer Jack Ryan entries at 688 pages, part of the run that built his reputation for techno-thriller density and procedural intelligence detail.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Clear and Present Danger is book 4 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows The Cardinal of the Kremlin. It is followed by The Sum of All Fears. 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 9780425144374
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399134401