Jack Ryan · Book 18

Full Force and Effect

by Mark GreaneyGhostwriter

  • 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

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Cover of Full Force and Effect

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.

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…

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