Full Force and Effect
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by Mark Greaney.
- Published
- 2 December 2014
- Pages
- 345
- ISBN-13
- 9780399173356
- Type
- novel
About this book
Full Force and Effect (2014) is Mark Greaney's second solo turn as Jack Ryan ghostwriter, the eighteenth book in a series that by this point was less one author's story than a shared universe carried by several writers. It runs 345 pages.
Key facts about Full Force and Effect
Full Force and Effect is a novel credited to Mark Greaney. It has been out since 2 December 2014. The book has 345 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399173356 to find the main one.
Full Force and Effect is book 18 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
Full Force and Effect is book 18 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Support and Defend. It is followed by Under Fire. 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 9780553551983
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399173356