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.
Key facts about Command Authority
Command Authority is a novel by Mark Greaney and Tom Clancy. Readers have had it since 3 December 2013. It runs to 739 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Command Authority. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781101636497 to find the main one.
Command Authority is book 16 of 44 in the Jack Ryan series. The series has 44 published books. However, the series starts with The Hunt for Red October (1984).
Rules of Engagement is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 19 May 2026. Meanwhile, The Coldest War comes next, with an announced date of 24 November 2026.
Additionally, Mark Greaney writes The Gray Man as a separate series. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, The Hard Line is the latest published Mark Greaney book on file, from 17 February 2026.
About Mark Greaney
Mark Greaney spent more than twenty years bartending, waiting tables and working office jobs in his native Memphis — starting a novel in 1990 as a University of Memphis student and not finishing it for fifteen years — before The Gray Man (2009) turned him into a bestselling thriller writer almost overnight. See every Mark Greaney book in order.
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