Jack Ryan · Book 6
Without Remorse
- Published
- 1 August 1993
- Pages
- 768
- ISBN-13
- 9781408728000
- Type
- novel
About this book
Without Remorse (1993) breaks from the main Ryan timeline: it's a prequel about John Clark's origin, set years before The Hunt for Red October, which is why readers chasing Ryan's in-story chronology are sometimes told to read it ahead of that first book. It runs 768 pages and sits between The Sum of All Fears and Debt of Honor in publication order.
Its place in Jack Ryan
Without Remorse is book 6 in the Jack Ryan series. It follows The Sum of All Fears. It is followed by Debt of Honor. 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 9788401495274
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781408728000