Jack Ryan · Book 23
Point of Contact
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by Mike Maden.
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9781405935586
- Type
- novel
About this book
Point of Contact (2017) follows True Faith and Allegiance and introduces Mike Maden as a Jack Ryan ghostwriter, one of several continuation authors Penguin Random House brought in to keep the series' rotating slate going after Clancy's death. It runs 464 pages.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Point of Contact is book 23 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows True Faith and Allegiance. It is followed by Power and Empire. 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 9781405935586