Jack Ryan · Book 10
The Bear and the Dragon
- Published
- 21 August 2000
- Pages
- 1028
- ISBN-13
- 9780399146404
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Bear and the Dragon (2000) follows Rainbow Six and precedes Red Rabbit in the Jack Ryan lineup, running 1,028 pages -- another of Clancy's doorstop-length entries built on the series' trademark real-world geopolitics and military-grade technical detail.
Its place in Jack Ryan
The Bear and the Dragon is book 10 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows Rainbow Six. It is followed by Red Rabbit. 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 9780399146404