Jack Ryan · Book 40
Defense Protocol
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by Brian Andrews.
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by Jeffrey Wilson.
- Published
- 1 January 2024
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-13
- 9780593717974
- Type
- novel
About this book
Defense Protocol (2024) continues the fortieth installment of the Jack Ryan series, written by Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson as ghostwriters -- part of the multi-author imprint the franchise became after Clancy's death. It runs 512 pages.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Defense Protocol is book 40 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Shadow State. It is followed by Line of Demarcation. 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 9780593949184
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593717974