Jack Ryan · Book 16
Command Authority
- Published
- 3 December 2013
- Pages
- 739
- ISBN-13
- 9781101636497
- Type
- novel
About this book
Command Authority (2013), sitting between Threat Vector and Support and Defend, was published the year Tom Clancy died -- after this point the Jack Ryan universe continued entirely through continuation authors like Mark Greaney, who co-wrote this 739-page installment.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Command Authority is book 16 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Threat Vector. It is followed by Support and Defend. 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 9780399160479
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781101636497