In this case, the cause was a COVID-19 reading slump that started in mid-March 2020. This is definitely the longest it has taken me to finish a book in years. Tropes show how literature is conceived and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: I´ve heard of, or read about, news regarding a kind of endless continuation of his work with fresh authors and maybe they´ll produce the kind of not so black and white, more complex WW3s we´re all waiting for. This is highly subjective and I guess that many will find their ecstasy with Clancy's work and with a third lawyer of storytelling like politics, economics, dark forces, etc it might be fulfilling my dreams of a both brutal and deeper entertaining novel, but I guess I won´t get comfortable with that kind of genre. This combination of thriller, James Bond, war novels, and patriotic badass supersoldiers is something unique but the length of the novels is a problem that might reduce my motivation for reading more of that stuff, because there is no more complex setting than those clashing forces and fight and bam and boom and explode and stuff. It´s entertaining, full of suspense, and the extreme accuracy and the focus on details reminds me of Hard Sci-Fi, but in contrast to that, I am a bit missing the objective criticism of all parties involved. Testosterone poisoning and mad manly masculinity escalate to short-story-long descriptions of saber-rattling, real life global strategy games, and the brink of nuclear war. The following are the books and approximate time frame in the Jack Ryan Universe 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.

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy