Jack Ryan · Book 13
Dead or Alive
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 848
- ISBN-13
- 9780399157233
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dead or Alive (2010) is the first Jack Ryan novel published after Clancy began sharing the byline, co-written with Grant Blackwood as the series moved into its continuation era. Running 848 pages, it sits between The Teeth of the Tiger and Locked On in the reading order.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Dead or Alive is book 13 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows The Teeth of the Tiger. It is followed by Locked On. 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 9780399157233