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Tom Clancy's Net Force
The Tom Clancy's Net Force series by Tom Clancy has 16 known books (16 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Net Force (1998). Tom Clancy wrote the series; books 1-10 were ghostwritten by Steve Perry; books 11-14 were ghostwritten by Jerome Preisler.
- Books
- 16 known books (14 novels + 2 novellas)
- Published
- 16
- First published
- 1998
- Status
- ongoing
- Shelved under
- Thriller, Science Fiction
- Last checked
Start here: Net Force (1998) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Net Force
Net Force opens Tom Clancy's Net Force series, a techno-thriller published in 1998 and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It's the first of an ongoing series that has since run to seventeen entries, followed by Hidden Agendas.
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Hidden Agendas
Hidden Agendas is the second book in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 1999 and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It follows Net Force and precedes Night Moves.
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Night Moves
Night Moves is the third entry in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 1999 and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It follows Hidden Agendas and precedes Breaking Point.
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Breaking Point
Breaking Point is the fourth book in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 2000 and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It follows Night Moves and precedes Point of Impact.
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Point of Impact
Point of Impact is the fifth entry in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 2001 and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It follows Breaking Point and precedes CyberNation.
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CyberNation
CyberNation is the sixth book in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 2001 at 358 pages and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It follows Point of Impact and precedes State of War.
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State of War
State of War is the seventh entry in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 2003 and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It follows CyberNation and precedes Changing of the Guard.
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Changing of the Guard
Changing of the Guard is the eighth book in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 2003 at 318 pages and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It follows State of War and precedes Springboard.
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Springboard
Springboard is the ninth entry in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 2005 at 370 pages and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It follows Changing of the Guard and precedes The Archimedes Effect.
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The Archimedes Effect
The Archimedes Effect is the tenth book in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 2006 at 325 pages and ghostwritten by Steve Perry. It's the last entry of the original 1998-2006 run before the series' thirteen-year hiatus, following Springboard and preceding the novella Code War.
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Dark Web
Dark Web opens Jerome Preisler's 2019 relaunch of Tom Clancy's Net Force series, restarting the premise with a new cast rather than continuing the 1998-2006 storyline. It follows the novella Code War and precedes another novella, Eye of the Drone.
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Eye of the Drone
Eye of the Drone is a prequel novella in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, ghostwritten by Jerome Preisler and set just before Dark Web despite publishing after it, in 2020. It precedes Attack Protocol in the reading order.
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Attack Protocol
Attack Protocol is a novel in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 2020 and ghostwritten by Jerome Preisler as part of his ongoing relaunch. It follows the novella Eye of the Drone and precedes the novella Kill Chain.
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Kill Chain
Kill Chain is a novella in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, ghostwritten by Jerome Preisler and published in 2021. It follows Attack Protocol and precedes Threat Point.
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Threat Point
Threat Point is a novel in Tom Clancy's Net Force series, published in 2021 and ghostwritten by Jerome Preisler. It follows the novella Kill Chain and precedes Moving Target.
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Moving Target
Moving Target is the most recent entry in Tom Clancy's Net Force series as of this site's August 2026 curation, published in 2023 and ghostwritten by Jerome Preisler. It follows Threat Point in a series that has run continuously since 1998.
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About the Tom Clancy's Net Force series
Net Force imagines a near-future FBI cyber-crime division created to police a world that has become dangerously dependent on its own networks -- power grids, financial markets, even a shared virtual-reality space -- against hackers, terrorists and rogue states who treat the internet as a battlefield. Created by Tom Clancy and psychiatrist Steve Pieczenik but written throughout by other novelists, the original run (1998-2006, all by Steve Perry) follows commander Alex Michaels and his team as they chase increasingly ambitious digital threats, extrapolating the still-young public internet of the late 1990s into a plausible, occasionally prophetic vision of a networked society under constant low-grade siege.
After a thirteen-year gap, Jerome Preisler relaunched the series in 2019 with a new cast and a thoroughly updated premise for the smartphone-and-social-media era, while keeping Net Force's core idea intact: a dedicated federal unit built specifically because ordinary law enforcement can't keep pace with crime that moves at network speed. Both eras share the same techno-thriller DNA as Clancy's other franchises -- real (or near-future) technology treated with procedural seriousness -- but told at a brisker, more plot-driven clip than Clancy's own Jack Ryan novels, with cybercrime and infrastructure sabotage standing in for the geopolitics of his solo work.
Frequently asked questions
Who writes the Tom Clancy's Net Force series?
Tom Clancy wrote the series; books 1-10 were ghostwritten by Steve Perry; books 11-14 were ghostwritten by Jerome Preisler.
How many Net Force books are there?
14 full-length novels -- 10 in the original 1998-2006 run by Steve Perry, plus 4 in Jerome Preisler's 2019-2023 relaunch -- alongside 3 shorter bridge novellas (Code War, Eye of the Drone, Kill Chain), for 17 tracked entries in total.
Did Tom Clancy write the Net Force books?
No. Clancy and psychiatrist Steve Pieczenik created the concept, but every novel was written by other credited authors: Steve Perry for the original 1998-2006 run, and Jerome Preisler for the 2019 relaunch.
Is the 2019 relaunch a continuation of the original Net Force story?
No. Jerome Preisler's relaunch, starting with Dark Web (2019), introduces a new cast and restarts the premise for a modern internet rather than continuing Alex Michaels and the original team's storyline.
What order should I read the Net Force books in?
Publication order within each era: the original run start to finish (Net Force through The Archimedes Effect, plus the Code War novella), then the relaunch separately, starting with Dark Web. The two eras don't need to be read in relation to each other.
Is there a young-adult Net Force series too?
Yes -- Net Force Explorers, a separate young-adult spinoff series with its own numbering and rotating ghostwriters, created alongside the main-line novels but tracked separately from this entry.
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