Shadow of the Dragon

Name: Shadow of the Dragon
Rating: 4.45 (13522 reviews)
Author: Marc Cameron, Tom Clancy

Jack Ryan Universe • Book 31

by Marc Cameron, Tom Clancy

Narrated by Scott Brick

4.45 BLT Score

(13.5K ratings)

★ 4.22 Goodreads (9.4K) ★ 4.6 Audible (4.1K)

13h 10m Released 2020 Thriller

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Why You'll Love This

Book 31 in a franchise and it still manages to plant a mole, freeze the Arctic, and make you miss your exit.

Great if you want: geopolitical chess with Chinese intel and Arctic intrigue
Listening experience: dense procedural that builds steadily before snapping tight
Narration: Brick's authoritative baritone is made for this franchise
Skip if: you're new to the series — 31 books of context matters

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About This Book

Shadow of the Dragon, the thirty-first Jack Ryan Universe novel, weaves together three converging crises: a missing Chinese scientist, unexplained sonar phenomena beneath Arctic ice, and a mole potentially compromising American intelligence. John Clark leads the Campus team into China to find the scientist while the broader intelligence apparatus races to understand what is happening under the ice. Cameron writes in Clancy's tradition of tightly plotted geopolitical thrillers with technical specificity and institutional authenticity.

Scott Brick narrates the Jack Ryan Universe with the gravitas the franchise demands — his voice carries the institutional authority of the American national security apparatus without making the characters sound indistinguishable from each other. At just over thirteen hours the audiobook maintains the pace of a multi-thread thriller while honoring the series' commitment to plausible procedural detail.