Jack Ryan · Book 39
Shadow State
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by M.P. Woodward.
- Published
- 1 January 2024
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780593717943
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shadow State (2024) picks up the series after Act of Defiance, written by M.P. Woodward as Jack Ryan ghostwriter, part of the continuation era's parallel storylines sustained by several different writers under one shared brand. It runs 384 pages.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Shadow State is book 39 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Act of Defiance. It is followed by Defense Protocol. 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 9780593717943