• Patriot Games

  • By: Tom Clancy
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (12,686 ratings)

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Patriot Games

By: Tom Clancy
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Publisher's summary

It is fall. CIA analyst Jack Ryan, historian and former Marine, is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter. Suddenly, right before his eyes, a terrorist group launches its deadly attack.

Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved - the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men - men who do not sit on their hate.

Patriot Games is a prequel to The Hunt for Red October and has all the excitement and energy of Clancy's famous first book.

©1998 Tom Clancy (P)2011 Random House

Critic reviews

“A novel that crackles!” (The New York Times)

“A bang-up climax.” (The Washington Post)

“A high-pitch of excitement.” (The Wall Street Journal)

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Excellent book, and excellently read

Excellent book. Exceptionally Read. Would certainly recommend to any whom are considering to get it.

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Great book so much better than the movie

Would you listen to Patriot Games again? Why?

Probably not its a one time thing

What was one of the most memorable moments of Patriot Games?

I love his little girl she is so adorable when she yell's daddy!

What does Scott Brick bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Nothing significant, it didn't distract me from the story.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

I should just do a google search and copy and paste the story line lol.

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Worth your time!

Where does Patriot Games rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This book requires your attention.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Patriot Games?

The escape down the cliff.

Have you listened to any of Scott Brick’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Scott Brick rivets you to your seat.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

After 9/11 this book seems prophetic.

Any additional comments?

This book Is very good addition to the Ryan series. Each book follows very easily in the time line order. Having seen the movie first, you will be very unhappy about how the movie treated the book. The book is a true well told story unlike the movie that only gives a glimpse of the story. Enjoy this and savor it as it should be.

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Being my first audible and using it on and off

Struggle to finished book since i was not a constant listener, but overall i liked it, can wait to get to the other chapters but more fluently.

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Great book!

We just drove 2000 miles in RV. Listened to this book the entire way. It was awesome!!! Scott Brink did excellent voices, pace was perfect, and story line was intriguing. Loooong book which was a plus!

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Action, adventure and romance

Love these early Jack Ryan novels. Jack Ryan is our generations John Wayne movies in many ways. Good vs. evil with twists and turns in the plot line.
Very happy to listen to this on a long road trip.

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Eddie Frangos

This was a good novel. I wish more had been put in the movie. I really loved Robby used the shot gun. It was funny how he used.

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Great story and great narrator

Tom Clancy and Scott Brick is a great combination. Yje story is much better than the movie.

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a fun book

I liked this book a lot, it has a fun story and great characters. However, I found it a bit predictable in parts and Jack should have had more Marine training and time in service to make his character more believable.

As a former active duty Marine I really appreciated all the parts the Marines played.

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Good but not great

get ready for about 20 hours worth of drawn out exposition dialogue and details and about 10 hours of intermittent action. The narration is excellent and the narrator does a great job at the different accents and voiceover work.

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