Jack Ryan · Book 17
Support and Defend
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by Mark Greaney.
- Published
- 22 July 2014
- Pages
- 692
- ISBN-13
- 9780718180447
- Type
- novel
About this book
Support and Defend (2014) is the first Jack Ryan novel credited solely to a continuation author, with Mark Greaney writing as Clancy's ghostwriter after Clancy's 2013 death. It runs 692 pages, the seventeenth entry in a series now sustained by a rotating slate of writers rather than a single author's vision.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Support and Defend is book 17 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Command Authority. It is followed by Full Force and Effect. 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 9781594138058
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780718180447