Orcmid's Lair: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Novels

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Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton Archives Atom Feed Associated Blogs Edge City Numbering Peano Praxis101 Prof. von Clueless in the Blunder Dome Recent Items Serious Camp Fu 2.0 Happy Birthday, Ted We have a great future behind us DRM as Destroyer of Markets Must DRM Go Away? Public Education: The Excluded Middle Microsoft to Small Business: Your Potential, Our Passion Help Stamp Out Telephone Surveys Global Social Identity Friday Slap Your Head Day	2006-04-16 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Novels A while back during a household reading binge, we worked our way through all of the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan novels. I keep the list on scraps of paper and I need it somewhere that I can find it. {tags: Tom Clancy Jack Ryan orcmid} [update 2006-04-18: Added tagging and tidied-up a little. Then gave up on Red October being first.] I am not sure this is an accurate time sequence, but the progression seems to be as follows, with some doubts about the ones with * being possibly interchanged: Patriot Games [The numbers and ages of children are convincing for the early sequences] * Hunt for Red October * Red Rabbit * Cardinal in the Kremlin Clear and Present Danger Sum of All Fears Debt of Honor Executive Orders * The Bear and the Dragon * Rainbow Six Teeth of the Tiger I suppose I should check Wikipedia or some other authority and then update this material. One concern that I have with Teeth of the Tiger is that it refers to events that happened earlier around the end of the Jack Ryan presidency, but we are not given anything more than Jack Junior’s skimpy reflections about it. It’s also clear that Teeth of the Tiger is an incomplete story and we must wait for the rest of it. Although the novel, Without Remorse, does not feature Jack Ryan, it does take place in the Jack Ryan world and provides an important back story to some of the characters. Our interest stems from finding these characters as people we care about and we care about what happens to them. So we await more about that. posted by orcmid at 4/16/2006 11:07:22 AM *Comments:* Hey Dennis, here's a funny story about "Cardinal in the Kremlin" ... My brother Ken has worked at Boeing for many years, as a mechanic on various weapons systems. Back in the late 80s, he worked on a Star Wars sort of system, where a Boeing jet would fly at really high altitude and try to detect ISBMs rising up over the horizon to help shoot them down as early as possible. Anyway, he had Top Secret security clearance, and couldn't tell me about his work, but he said "read Clancy's Cardinal book, everyone around here is pissed about how much he said about our program and nobody knows where he got the info." So I went out and read it. Nice backhanded compliment to the author, I thought. :-) Cheers, Doug # posted by Doug Mahugh: Mon Apr 17, 02:59:33 PM PDT The order would be Red Rabbit, Red October, and Cardinal of the Kremlin. Proof is, Red Rabbit Jack and Family move to England, Red October they are already there, Cardinal has the Red OCtober's Captain in it after he has defected. # posted by Anonymous: Mon Jul 17, 07:47:42 PM PDT Oh and Rainbow Six then Bear and the Dragon. The Rainbow Six team is in the Bear and the Dragon so it makes sense that Rainbow Six has to come first. # posted by Anonymous: Mon Jul 17, 07:49:35 PM PDT Post a Comment

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