Jack Ryan · Book 9
Rainbow Six
- Published
- 3 August 1998
- Pages
- 897
- ISBN-13
- 9780140274059
- Type
- novel
About this book
Rainbow Six (1998) is the ninth Jack Ryan novel at 897 pages, continuing Clancy's run of techno-thrillers thick with tactical and intelligence-community detail rather than character-driven intimacy.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Rainbow Six is book 9 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Executive Orders. It is followed by The Bear and the Dragon. 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 9780140274059