Red Rabbit

Red Rabbit
First edition
AuthorTom Clancy
Audio read byDerrick Hagon
LanguageEnglish
SeriesJack Ryan
Release number
9
Genre
PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date
August 5, 2002
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback), Audio
Pages640
ISBN0399148701
Preceded byThe Bear and the Dragon 
Followed byDead or Alive 

Red Rabbit is a spy thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 5, 2002. The plot occurs a few months after the events of Patriot Games (1987), and incorporates the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. Main character Jack Ryan, now an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, takes part in the extraction of a Soviet defector who knows of a KGB plot to kill the pontiff. The book debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.