Patriot Games
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 541
- ISBN-13
- 9780002231947
- Type
- novel
About this book
Patriot Games (1987) is Tom Clancy's second Jack Ryan novel by publication, but it's set earlier in Ryan's career than that date suggests -- one of the chronological quirks readers hunting a strict in-story order need to account for. At 541 pages, it continues the series' trademark mix of geopolitical detail and a CIA analyst's rise through extraordinary events.
Key facts about Patriot Games
Patriot Games is a novel by Tom Clancy. Readers have had it since 1 January 1987. It runs to 541 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Patriot Games. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780002231947 to find the main one.
Patriot Games is book 2 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, Tom Clancy writes Tom Clancy's Op-Center, Tom Clancy's Power Plays and Tom Clancy's Net Force as separate series. Those series sit on our thriller and techno-thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Commander in Chief is the latest published Tom Clancy book on file, from 1 December 2015.
About Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy was working as an independent insurance agent in Maryland, with no military or intelligence career of his own, when the Naval Institute Press — a publisher that didn't normally handle fiction — took a chance on his first novel in 1984. See every Tom Clancy book in order.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Patriot Games is book 2 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows The Hunt for Red October. It is followed by The Cardinal of the Kremlin. 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 9780002231947