Patriot Games (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Clancy
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Political fiction, Adventure, Suspense, Spy fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, England or English people, London, Terrorism or terrorists, Princes or princesses, Cold War
- Locales: United States, London, England
Because of its success as a film, Patriot Games is one of Clancy's best-known novels. He began writing it before The Hunt for Red October, but it was not published until after his second hit novel, Red Storm Rising (1986). Patriot Games, however, relates the earliest part of Jack Ryan's fictional biography. Clancy has admitted that in creating Ryan he has projected an idealized version of himself.
In a departure from his other novels, in Patriot Games technology plays only a secondary role. The story opens in London. Ryan and his family are...
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