Novels
The first published book to feature Jack Ryan was The Hunt for Red October. Although the book was published years before Patriot Games, there are repeated references to events from Patriot Games within The Hunt for Red October, which strongly suggests that The Hunt for Red October was in fact written after the Patriot Games manuscript (or at least the first draft of the novel) was completed.
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Famous quotes containing the word novels:
“All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists’ discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)