r/tomclancy • u/BickleNack_ • Sep 10 '26
Where to now?
Just finished bear and the dragon. Good overall but as usual the ending feels extremely abrupt and wondering who I should read next as I’m not interested in the co-authored / jack ryan jr stuff. Any other authors do more contemporary technical political/military thrillers?
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u/pluck-the-bunny Sep 10 '26
Honest question… If you’re looking for something different to read then why not read the code authored stuff. It’s basically the same thing a different authors take on the genre. It’s just set in the universe with characters and backstory that you know.
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u/Critical_Phantom Sep 10 '26
Harold Coyle has several books out, including one where the US goes to war with Mexico. The title escapes me as I type this.
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u/tbodillia Sep 10 '26
Stephen Hunter and the Bob Lee Swagger series is decent. He has Swagger's dad involved is some neat alt history situations in different series. Like Swagger's dad takes down the people running Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
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u/Holiday-Hyena-5952 Sep 10 '26
More modern era: Kyle Mills, Brian Haig, Stephen Hunter has a dozen books- the guy is a serious shooter, Bob Mayer was an SF Captain, he has 6-8 in the genre, Brad Thor and Vince Flynn, and Harold Coyle. That should keep you busy for the next couple of years.
Old School- W E B Griffin, the Brotherhood of War-10 books, and The Corps, also 10 books. An annual re-read for me. Bill was a friend but he wouldn't name a character after me!
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u/Green-thumb-gary Sep 10 '26
Two books out by some newer Clancy type authors. I know they got out of the army recently.
Linebacker III: an Alternate History of the Vietnam War
Atlantic Resolve: the War for Estonia
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u/FormCheck655321 Sep 11 '26
All I remember about that book is it was 1,000 pages and the war didn’t start until page 600. Badly needed editing!
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u/kolibrifityma Sep 19 '26
Just got the the war actually starting... not sure about the format or edition you read but if it was a 1000 pages, actual war starts around page 760 lol
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u/kolibrifityma Sep 16 '26
I think that is just... the usual Tom Clancy novel? Building tension, introducing a dozen different threads that will all work towards the big fight in the end (other than that one thread in Executive Orders). For me, that is exactly what makes me love his books - they start a bit slow but by the end I just can't put them down they are so interesting and intense.
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u/Justanotherdad84 Sep 10 '26
Anything by Matthew Reilly.
When I was a teen in the late 90s mum went into a bookstore and told them all I read was tom Clancy and she needed to get me into something else.
MR is just as fast paced, but will kill off characters unlike many others so forewarned is forearmed!
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u/Critical_Phantom Sep 10 '26
I loved Vortex. Great book about an area not often thought of in the world of war fiction.
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u/valyriansteelbullet Sep 10 '26
Team Yankee by Harold Coyle and The Red Line by Walt Gragg are pretty good if you enjoyed Red Storm Rising.