War betweenNATO andUSSR. This book is not a member of theRyanverse, although a protagonist of the story, Robert Toland, has many similarities with Jack Ryan.
The sequel toThe Hunt for Red October. First appearance ofJohn Clark and Sergey Golovko. Ryan leads a CIA operation aimed at extracting the agency's highest agent-in-place in the Kremlin, codenamed CARDINAL, who is being hunted by the KGB, and simultaneously forces the head of theKGB todefect.
The President authorizes the CIA to use American military forces in a covert war against a drug cartel inColombia. The operation is betrayed. Ryan meets Clark as they lead a mission to rescue the abandoned soldiers. Domingo "Ding" Chavez (Clark's protege in later novels) is one of the rescued soldiers. The1994 film starsHarrison Ford as Ryan,Willem Dafoe as Clark, andRaymond Cruz as Chavez.
Palestinian and former East German terrorists find a nuclear weapon that had been lost by Israel, and use it to attack the United States. This nearly triggers a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, due to the incompetence of the new President and his mistress with an anti-Ryan agenda. Ryan intervenes to avert the war. The2002 film starsBen Affleck as Ryan andLiev Schreiber as Clark, and changes the identity and motivation of the terrorists toneo-Nazis.
Without Remorse takes place during theVietnam War, when Ryan was a teenager. Ex-SEAL John Clark (then John Kelly) fights a one-man war against drug dealers in Baltimore, attracting the attention of Jack's father Emmet, a Baltimore police detective. He also helps plan and execute a raid on a prisoner-of-war camp in North Vietnam. Clark later joins the CIA. The 2021film starsMichael B. Jordan as Clark andJamie Bell as Robert Ritter.
A secret cabal of extreme nationalists gains control ofJapan and start a war with the U.S. Ryan, nowNational Security Advisor, as well as Clark and Chavez, agents in Japan, help win the war. The Vice President resigns in a scandal, and the President appoints Ryan to replace him. A vengeful Japanese airline pilot then crashes a jetliner into the U.S. Capitol during a joint session of Congress attended by most senior U.S. government officials, including the President. Ryan thus becomes the new President through succession.
Now-President Ryan survives press hazing, an assassination attempt, and abiological warfare attack on the United States. Clark and Chavez trace the virus to a Middle Eastern madman, and the U.S. military goes to work.
Follows the missions ofUSSCheyenne in a future war with China precipitated by China's invasion of the disputedSpratly Islands. Also not part of the Ryanverse,SSN is actually a loosely connected collection of "scenario" chapters in support of theeponymous video game.
Released to coincide withthe video game of the same name. Clark and Chavez, who is now Clark's son-in-law, lead an elite multinational anti-terrorist unit that combats a worldwide genocide attempt by eco-terrorists.
War between Russia and China. Ryan recognizes the independence ofTaiwan, Chinese police officers kill a Roman Catholic Cardinal, and American armed forces help Russia defeat a Chinese invasion ofSiberia.
Jack Ryan's son Jack Ryan Jr. becomes an analyst for The Campus, an off-the-books intelligence agency with the freedom to discreetly assassinate individuals "who threaten national security", following the end of the Ryan administration. Also features his two cousins Dominic and Brian Caruso.
The story picks up whereThe Teeth of the Tiger left off with Jack Ryan Jr. and The Campus trying to catch anOsama bin Laden-type of terrorist known as the Emir.
After surviving a Taliban bombing attack inPakistan that claims the lives of his colleagues and his asset, CIA paramilitary officer and former Navy SEAL Max Moore is assigned by a government joint task force to take down aMexican drug cartel. Along the way, he must deal with Taliban terrorists trying to enter the United States through theMexico-US border.
While Jack Ryan Jr. trains to become a field operative within The Campus, his father campaigns for re-election as President of the United States. A devout enemy of Jack Senior launches a privately funded vendetta to discredit him, while a corrupt Pakistani general has entered into a deadly pact with Dagestani terrorists to procure nuclear warheads.
President Jack Ryan and The Campus must deal with a Chinese expansionist government intent on annexing territories in the South China Sea by military force as well asHong Kong,Macau, and Taiwan. They must also deal with a Chinese version of The Campus, which are instrumental for a series of devastating cyber attacks on American infrastructure.
President Jack Ryan, with help from The Campus, deals with new Russian strongman Valeri Volodin, who is intent on annexingUkraine. Along the way, he must also contend with his rise to power, which is anchored on a dark secret that Ryan himself had encountered back when he was a CIA analyst.
FBI agent and The Campus operative Dominic Caruso must stop a seemingly rogueNational Security Council (NSC) staffer who had run off with top secret documents and is being pursued by Iranians and the Russians.
President Jack Ryan and The Campus must stop Russian president Volodin from launching a covert violent offensive in an effort to bring back Russia as a superpower.
President Jack Ryan and The Campus must contain a massive intelligence breach that has been responsible for a series of terrorist attacks on American military and intelligence personnel.
While inSingapore, Jack Ryan Jr. must help his mysterious colleague in Hendley Associates Paul Brown avert a North Korean plot to crash the Asian stock market.
President Jack Ryan and The Campus must prevent a secret cabal heightening the tensions between the United States and China from causing a violent coup in the Chinese government.
Jack Ryan Jr. is inBosnia and Herzegovina partly on his mother’s errand to track down her former patient. While evading a Bulgarian crime boss who has a vendetta against him, he has to avert a sinister plot by Turkey to provoke war between NATO and the Russians in the Balkans.
President Jack Ryan deals with a domestic flu outbreak, a political rival with an anti-Ryan agenda, and a hostage situation in the United States embassy inCameroon. The Campus uncovers a sinister plot behind a series of protests inIran, favorably dubbed as the Persian Spring.
President Jack Ryan deals with the imprisonment of his friend and former CIA colleague Father Pat West inIndonesia. The Campus race against time to retrieve next-generationAI software before the Chinese military use it for sinister purposes.
Jack Ryan Jr. investigates the death of his former classmate in a bombing inBarcelona, Spain, while President Jack Ryan scrambles to track down those responsible for the disappearances ofcontainer ships across the oceans.
President Jack Ryan deals with an Indian billionaire who plots to intimidate him into repealing a pharmaceutical bill through kidnapping the First Lady, among others.
Set in 1985, CIA analyst Jack Ryan works with Mary Pat Foley to investigate a possible East German defector, as aStasi agent steals a piece of top-secret technology from anF-117 Nighthawk stealth plane that crashed in theNevada desert.
Jack Ryan Jr. investigates a cold case after witnessing a car accident turned professional hit inTexas, as his father tries to preventIran from developing its nuclear weapons program.
Forty years after dealing with theRed October, President Jack Ryan takes on another Russian nuclear submarine headed for the United States. Introduces Ryan's youngest daughter Katie Ryan, anOffice of Naval Intelligence analyst.
The Tom Clancy Companion (1992, edited byMartin H. Greenberg) — Writings by Clancy along with a concordance of all his fiction novels, detailing characters and military units or equipment.
Note:Splinter Cell,EndWar,H.A.W.X, andGhost Recon novelizations were mostly written byDavid Michaels, a pseudonym used by several authors, except where indicated.
