The following are the books and approximate time frame in the Jack Ryan UniverseĪfter writing my Clear and Present Danger review, I decided I ought to add a few more Clancy opinionaires. Ten of the novels, including The Teeth of the Tiger (Berkley, 2004), feature the character Jack Ryan, former stock broker and CIA employee.Ĭlancy’s non-fiction works include a series of guided tours of America’s warfighting assets, Submarine, Armored Cav, Fighter Wing, Marine, and Airborne. He wrote more than a dozen novels, which have a blend of realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. As a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history, his dream of writing a novel came true with his first effort, The Hunt for Red October (1984). Tom Clancy was an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College. His rescue could spell the difference between peace and war, and it is up to Jack Ryan to accomplish it - if he can - as, in a breathtaking sequence of hunter and hunted, Filitov's life, and Ryan's and that of the world itself literally hang in the balance. Because Filitov, code-named Cardinal, is America's highest agent in the Kremlin, and he is about to be betrayed to the KGB. To the two greatest nations on earth, no contest is more urgent than the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system, and no one knows that more than the two men charged with assessing the Soviets' capabilities: Colonel Mikhail Filitov of the Soviet Union, an old-line warrior distrusted by the army's new inner circle of technocrats, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of the Red October affair.Įach must use all his craft to arrive at the truth, but Filitov gets there first - and that's when all hell breaks loose. In the Soviet hills of Dushanbe near the Afghanistan border, an otherworldly array of pillars and domes rises into the night. Paperback (December 31st, 2099): $17.In a rolling sea off the coast of South America, a target disappears in a puff of green light.“No one can equal his talent for making military electronics and engineering intelligible and exciting.He remains the best!”- Houston Chronicle Product Details “A brilliant describer of events.”- The Washington Post

“He constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale.”- The New York Times Book Review “ Cardinal excites, illuminates.a real page-turner.”- Los Angeles Daily News “Clancy’s done it again!”- New York Daily News

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