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.
Key facts about The Bear and the Dragon
The Bear and the Dragon is a novel by Tom Clancy. Readers have had it since 21 August 2000. It runs to 1028 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Bear and the Dragon. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780399146404 to find the main one.
The Bear and the Dragon is book 10 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, Tom Clancy writes Tom Clancy's Op-Center, Tom Clancy's Power Plays and Tom Clancy's Net Force as separate series. Those series sit on our thriller and techno-thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Commander in Chief is the latest published Tom Clancy book on file, from 1 December 2015.
About Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy was working as an independent insurance agent in Maryland, with no military or intelligence career of his own, when the Naval Institute Press — a publisher that didn't normally handle fiction — took a chance on his first novel in 1984. See every Tom Clancy book in order.
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