Jack Ryan · Book 2
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.
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