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.
Key facts about Support and Defend
Support and Defend is a novel credited to Mark Greaney. Readers have had it since 22 July 2014. It runs to 692 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Support and Defend. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780718180447 to find the main one.
Support and Defend is book 17 of 44 in the Jack Ryan series. The series has 44 published books. However, the series starts with The Hunt for Red October (1984).
Rules of Engagement is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 19 May 2026. Meanwhile, The Coldest War comes next, with an announced date of 24 November 2026.
Additionally, Mark Greaney writes The Gray Man as a separate series. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, The Hard Line is the latest published Mark Greaney book on file, from 17 February 2026.
About Mark Greaney
Mark Greaney spent more than twenty years bartending, waiting tables and working office jobs in his native Memphis — starting a novel in 1990 as a University of Memphis student and not finishing it for fifteen years — before The Gray Man (2009) turned him into a bestselling thriller writer almost overnight. See every Mark Greaney book in order.
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