Target Acquired
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by Don Bentley.
- Published
- 1 January 2021
- Pages
- 524
- ISBN-13
- 9780593188132
- Type
- novel
About this book
Target Acquired (2021) picks up the series after Shadow of the Dragon and introduces Don Bentley as a Jack Ryan ghostwriter, one more name added to the rotating slate of continuation authors Penguin Random House kept cycling through. It runs 524 pages.
Key facts about Target Acquired
Target Acquired is a novel credited to Don Bentley. Readers have had it since 1 January 2021. It runs to 524 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Target Acquired. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780593188132 to find the main one.
Target Acquired is book 31 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, Don Bentley writes Mitch Rapp and Matt Drake as separate series. Those series sit on our thriller and military thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Denied Access is the latest published Don Bentley book on file, from 30 September 2025.
About Don Bentley
Don Bentley is an American thriller writer and former U.S. Army Apache helicopter pilot and FBI special agent whose military and law-enforcement background directly informs his fiction. See every Don Bentley book in order.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Target Acquired is book 31 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Shadow of the Dragon. It is followed by Chain of Command. 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 9780593414323
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593188132