Jack Ryan · Book 20
Commander in Chief
- Published
- 1 December 2015
- Pages
- 718
- ISBN-13
- 9780399176760
- Type
- novel

About this book
Commander in Chief (2015) credits both Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney, with Greaney as ghostwriter carrying the twentieth Jack Ryan novel forward after Clancy's death continued to reshape the series into a multi-author enterprise. It runs 718 pages.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Commander in Chief is book 20 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Under Fire. It is followed by Duty and Honor. 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 9780399176760