Join us as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic novel that launched a genre, Tom Clancy’s THE HUNT FOR THE RED OCTOBER and host the Navy veterans and international bestselling authors, Andrews & Wilson, who were chosen to carry on the Jack Ryan series with their new submarine warfare novel ACT OF DEFIANCE, Jack Ryan #24. As the first Navy veterans chosen to write in the Jack Ryan series, Brian Andrews, a submarine officer himself, and Jeff Wilson, a combat surgeon with the US Navy SEALs, are the perfect choice to continue Clancy’s work and celebrate the book that started it all. Come join them in conversation about how Clancy’s work impacted their own Navy careers, the honor and stress of writing in the Clancy franchise, and how modern fiction and real world military operations collide.

“Forty years after Tom Clancy’s genre defining debut novel, The Hunt for Red October, a new Russian submarine is moving west… Gripping and powerful, Act of Defiance is Andrews and Wilson at their best! A fitting tribute to the master. Tom Clancy would be proud.”

—Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Only the Dead

When a Russian superweapon is let loose under the waves, it’s up to President Jack Ryan to find a countermove in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.

US intelligence says there’s something going on in Russia. While their land forces have been decimated by corruption and incompetence, the Navy seems to be pouring money into some secret project.

Analysts are stumped, until the knot is untangled by one particularly bright young woman at the Office of Naval Intelligence–Katie Ryan, the youngest daughter of President Jack Ryan. Like her father, she sees patterns where other don’t, and she’s determined that the Russians are about to launch a super missile submarine, the Belgorod.

Now the race is on to determine where the sub is and whether it poses a threat to the continental US.

About the Authors

Brian Andrews is a U.S. Navy veteran, Park Leadership Fellow, and former submarine officer with a psychology degree from Vanderbilt and a master’s in business from Cornell University.

Jeffrey Wilson has worked as an actor, firefighter, paramedic, jet pilot, and diving instructor, as well as a vascular and trauma surgeon. He served in the U.S. Navy for fourteen years and made multiple deployments as a combat surgeon with an East Coast-based SEAL Team. He and his wife, Wendy, live in Southwest Florida with their four children.

Thirty-five years ago, Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.” From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013.