War between
NATO and
USSR. This book is not a member of the
Ryanverse, although a protagonist of the story, Robert Toland, has many similarities with Jack Ryan.
The sequel to The Hunt for Red October. First appearance of
John 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 the
KGB to
defect.
The President authorizes the CIA to use American military forces in a covert war against a drug cartel in
Colombia. 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. The
1994 film stars
Harrison Ford as Ryan,
Willem Dafoe as Clark, and
Raymond 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. The
2002 film stars
Ben Affleck as Ryan and
Liev Schreiber as Clark, and changes the identity and motivation of the terrorists to
neo-Nazis.
Without Remorse takes place during the
Vietnam 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 2021
film stars
Michael B. Jordan as Clark and
Jamie Bell as Robert Ritter.
A secret cabal of extreme nationalists gains control of
Japan and start a war with the U.S. Ryan, now
National 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 a
biological 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 of
USS Cheyenne in a future war with China precipitated by China's invasion of the disputed
Spratly Islands. Also not part of the Ryanverse, SSN is actually a loosely connected collection of "scenario" chapters in support of the
eponymous video game.
Released to coincide with
the 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 of
Taiwan, Chinese police officers kill a Roman Catholic Cardinal, and American armed forces help Russia defeat a Chinese invasion of
Siberia.
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 where The Teeth of the Tiger left off with Jack Ryan Jr. and The Campus trying to catch an
Osama bin Laden-type of terrorist known as the Emir.
After surviving a Taliban bombing attack in
Pakistan 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 a
Mexican drug cartel. Along the way, he must deal with Taliban terrorists trying to enter the United States through the
Mexico-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 as
Hong 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 annexing
Ukraine. 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.
Post-Clancy novels
Note: the following titles were not written by Clancy. They continue to develop the storylines of Clancy's novels but were written after his death.
FBI agent and The Campus operative Dominic Caruso must stop a seemingly rogue
National 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 in
Singapore, 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 in
Bosnia 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 in
Cameroon. The Campus uncovers a sinister plot behind a series of protests in
Iran, favorably dubbed as the Persian Spring.
President Jack Ryan deals with the imprisonment of his friend and former CIA colleague Father Pat West in
Indonesia. The Campus race against time to retrieve next-generation
AI software before the Chinese military use it for sinister purposes.
Jack Ryan Jr. investigates the death of his former classmate in a bombing in
Barcelona, Spain, while President Jack Ryan scrambles to track down those responsible for the disappearances of
container ships across the oceans.
14. Shadow of the Dragon (2020, by Marc Cameron)
John Clark, his Campus team, and
CIA go to
Xinjiang, China, to help a
Uyghursubmarine scientist, also a
freedom fighter against Chinese government, who holds the key information for the US to investigate Chinese submarine activities in the
Arctic Ocean.
Following the story in Chain of Command, President Jack Ryan travels to
Panama, to show support of its president, unknowingly steps into a
coup backed by the Russians and Venezuelans.
22. Act of Defiance (2024, by Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson)
US intelligence says there is something going on in Russia. While their land forces have been decimated by corruption and incompetence, the Navy seems to be pouring money into some secret project. Analysts are stumped, until the knot is untangled by one particularly bright young woman at the Office of Naval Intelligence–Katie Ryan, the youngest daughter of President Jack Ryan. Like her father, she sees patterns where other do not, and she is determined that the Russians are about to launch a super missile submarine, the Belgorod. Now the race is on to determine where the sub is and whether it poses a threat to the continental US.
23. Shadow State (forthcoming 2024, by M. P. Woodward)
24. Defense Protocol (forthcoming 2024, by Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson)
The Tom Clancy Companion (1992, edited by
Martin 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, and Ghost Recon novelizations were mostly written by
David Michaels, a pseudonym used by several authors, except where indicated.
War between
NATO and
USSR. This book is not a member of the
Ryanverse, although a protagonist of the story, Robert Toland, has many similarities with Jack Ryan.
The sequel to The Hunt for Red October. First appearance of
John 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 the
KGB to
defect.
The President authorizes the CIA to use American military forces in a covert war against a drug cartel in
Colombia. 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. The
1994 film stars
Harrison Ford as Ryan,
Willem Dafoe as Clark, and
Raymond 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. The
2002 film stars
Ben Affleck as Ryan and
Liev Schreiber as Clark, and changes the identity and motivation of the terrorists to
neo-Nazis.
Without Remorse takes place during the
Vietnam 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 2021
film stars
Michael B. Jordan as Clark and
Jamie Bell as Robert Ritter.
A secret cabal of extreme nationalists gains control of
Japan and start a war with the U.S. Ryan, now
National 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 a
biological 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 of
USS Cheyenne in a future war with China precipitated by China's invasion of the disputed
Spratly Islands. Also not part of the Ryanverse, SSN is actually a loosely connected collection of "scenario" chapters in support of the
eponymous video game.
Released to coincide with
the 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 of
Taiwan, Chinese police officers kill a Roman Catholic Cardinal, and American armed forces help Russia defeat a Chinese invasion of
Siberia.
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 where The Teeth of the Tiger left off with Jack Ryan Jr. and The Campus trying to catch an
Osama bin Laden-type of terrorist known as the Emir.
After surviving a Taliban bombing attack in
Pakistan 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 a
Mexican drug cartel. Along the way, he must deal with Taliban terrorists trying to enter the United States through the
Mexico-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 as
Hong 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 annexing
Ukraine. 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.
Post-Clancy novels
Note: the following titles were not written by Clancy. They continue to develop the storylines of Clancy's novels but were written after his death.
FBI agent and The Campus operative Dominic Caruso must stop a seemingly rogue
National 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 in
Singapore, 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 in
Bosnia 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 in
Cameroon. The Campus uncovers a sinister plot behind a series of protests in
Iran, favorably dubbed as the Persian Spring.
President Jack Ryan deals with the imprisonment of his friend and former CIA colleague Father Pat West in
Indonesia. The Campus race against time to retrieve next-generation
AI software before the Chinese military use it for sinister purposes.
Jack Ryan Jr. investigates the death of his former classmate in a bombing in
Barcelona, Spain, while President Jack Ryan scrambles to track down those responsible for the disappearances of
container ships across the oceans.
14. Shadow of the Dragon (2020, by Marc Cameron)
John Clark, his Campus team, and
CIA go to
Xinjiang, China, to help a
Uyghursubmarine scientist, also a
freedom fighter against Chinese government, who holds the key information for the US to investigate Chinese submarine activities in the
Arctic Ocean.
Following the story in Chain of Command, President Jack Ryan travels to
Panama, to show support of its president, unknowingly steps into a
coup backed by the Russians and Venezuelans.
22. Act of Defiance (2024, by Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson)
US intelligence says there is something going on in Russia. While their land forces have been decimated by corruption and incompetence, the Navy seems to be pouring money into some secret project. Analysts are stumped, until the knot is untangled by one particularly bright young woman at the Office of Naval Intelligence–Katie Ryan, the youngest daughter of President Jack Ryan. Like her father, she sees patterns where other do not, and she is determined that the Russians are about to launch a super missile submarine, the Belgorod. Now the race is on to determine where the sub is and whether it poses a threat to the continental US.
23. Shadow State (forthcoming 2024, by M. P. Woodward)
24. Defense Protocol (forthcoming 2024, by Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson)
The Tom Clancy Companion (1992, edited by
Martin 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, and Ghost Recon novelizations were mostly written by
David Michaels, a pseudonym used by several authors, except where indicated.