Patriot Games

Tom Clancy conquers the publishing world; General Tommy Franks Conquers Afghanistan, Iraq and ... Chuck E Cheese?

Tom Clancy’s third novel Patriot Games was number one on the New York Times best-seller list when it dropped on August 2, 1987. It would sell 1,063,000 hardcover copies in the first year of publication, which are stratospheric numbers in the book game. It was Clancy’s first book without the Soviets as antagonists. It was also Clancy’s first novelistic f…