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:
“I have just opened Bacon’s “Advancement of Learning” for the first time, which I read with great delight. It is more like what Scott’s novels were than anything.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know—Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel—the quality of philosophy.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)