Jack Ryan Books in Order

Soviet captain Marko Ramius takes his cutting-edge missile submarine on an unauthorized run toward the United States. CIA analyst Jack Ryan must prove that Ramius intends to defect, not attack, before nervous militaries trigger a wider war.

While vacationing in London, Jack Ryan thwarts an attack on the Prince and Princess of Wales and wounds an Irish terrorist. His heroism puts him in the crosshairs of a vengeful splinter group that targets his young family back home.

Jack Ryan helps protect CARDINAL, the CIA’s highest-placed agent in Moscow, as the KGB closes in. At the same time, rival missile-defense programs in the U.S. and Soviet Union raise the stakes of every move in this Cold War spy game.

Promoted to acting deputy director of intelligence, Jack Ryan discovers that colleagues are running a secret war against Colombian drug cartels. Cut out of the loop, he races to expose the operation and rescue abandoned special-ops soldiers.

Terrorists rebuild a lost Israeli nuclear weapon and plan to detonate it at the Super Bowl to trigger war between the U.S. and Russia. Jack Ryan must interpret fragmentary clues and cool panicked leaders before miscalculation becomes catastrophe.

In 1970, grieving ex–Navy SEAL John Kelly wages a personal war on a Baltimore drug ring while secretly leading a rescue mission for prisoners in Vietnam. The novel shows how a broken widower becomes the CIA’s lethal operative John Clark.

A cabal of Japanese industrialists exploits a trade dispute to wage economic and military war on the United States. As National Security Advisor, Jack Ryan must untangle financial attacks, submarine duels, and political intrigue leading to a shocking final strike.

Suddenly elevated to the presidency, Jack Ryan must rebuild a shattered U.S. government while facing a new Islamic superstate that unleashes bioterror and invades Saudi Arabia. Politics, pandemics, and armored divisions collide in one long crisis.

Retired operative John Clark forms Rainbow, a multinational counterterrorist unit based in Europe. Early hostage rescues reveal a deeper eco-terrorist plot involving a weaponized virus and a plan to "reset" humanity at the Olympic Games.

New oil and gold fields in Siberia tempt a resource-hungry China into war with Russia. President Jack Ryan draws NATO closer to Moscow, while special forces, tank battles, and a desperate missile-defense gamble decide the conflict’s outcome.

Early in his CIA career, Jack Ryan is sent to London and pulled into a defection involving a Soviet communications officer. The defector’s information reveals a plot to assassinate the Pope, forcing Ryan to navigate Cold War duplicity in Rome.

In a post‑9/11 world, Jack Ryan Jr. discovers the Campus, a deniable intelligence outfit created by his father. As he joins cousins Dominic and Brian Caruso, the team tests itself by hunting terrorist financiers with deadly "reconnaissance by fire" missions.

After years of tracking a terrorist known as the Emir, the Campus finally sees a chance to bring him down. Jack Ryan Jr., his cousins, and veterans John Clark and Ding Chavez race to stop a devastating attack planned on U.S. soil.

Ex–Navy SEAL and CIA operator Max Moore survives a blown operation in Pakistan and uncovers a deeper plot linking Taliban militants with a powerful Mexican drug cartel. To stop attacks on American cities, he must infiltrate cartel circles along the border.

A rogue Pakistani general edges toward a nuclear showdown with India while a political rival frames Jack Ryan Sr. for scandal. The Campus and Jack Ryan Jr. chase weapons and secrets across continents to stop a strike that could ignite regional war.

Chinese hard-liners unleash a wave of cyberattacks and covert operations aimed at pushing the U.S. out of the Pacific. As Jack Ryan Sr. faces a diplomatic crisis, the Campus fights assassins and malware that threaten both national security and its own survival.

A resurgent Russia uses covert funds and deniable forces to pressure its neighbors, echoing a long-buried KGB scheme Jack Ryan once faced as a CIA officer. Now president, he relies on Jack Jr. and the Campus to expose the network before tanks roll.

President Jack Ryan faces a shadow campaign to spark war between the United States and China, while The Campus chases a Chinese agent using terror strikes and human trafficking to topple a moderate leader and trigger a violent coup.

Deadly protests in Iran hide a covert scheme to steal anti-ballistic missiles and detonate them in space, wiping out satellites. As a vicious flu and floods batter the U.S., President Jack Ryan and The Campus race to stop a manufactured Persian Spring.

When Jesuit priest and former CIA officer Pat West is jailed in Indonesia on trumped-up charges, President Jack Ryan quietly unleashes The Campus to dig into his arrest and a stolen AI program that could let China cripple U.S. defenses.

A Chinese scientist who designed a silent submarine drive disappears with his Uyghur assistant, just as a damaged ballistic-missile sub surfaces under Arctic ice. President Ryan hunts a mole inside the CIA while The Campus tracks the fugitives across China and Mongolia.

As President Ryan pushes a hard-fought bill to rein in drug companies, an Indian billionaire unleashes ransomware attacks, deep-fake videos, and a mercenary group that kidnaps the First Lady, forcing The Campus into a global hunt to unravel his scheme.

Jack Ryan Jr. travels to Seoul to vet a possible Campus recruit, only to land in a crisis when North Korean sleeper agents activate across the South. A mysterious contact may stop war, if Jack can pay her price.