Jack Ryan · Book 42
Terminal Velocity
- Published as part of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan; this book was written by M.P. Woodward.
- Published
- 1 January 2025
- Pages
- 446
- ISBN-13
- 9780593718032
- Type
- novel

About this book
Terminal Velocity (2025) picks up the series after Line of Demarcation, written by M.P. Woodward as Jack Ryan ghostwriter, continuing the shared-universe structure that has defined the franchise's post-Clancy stretch. It runs 446 pages.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Terminal Velocity is book 42 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Line of Demarcation. It is followed by Executive Power. 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 9780593718032