John Patrick “Jack” Ryan, Sr., KCVO, (Hon) is a fictional character by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations. The character is born in Baltimore in 1950 and grows up there. He earns an NROTC commission in the Marines at Boston College. Medically retired following a helicopter crash, he works as an investment broker. He meets and marries Caroline “Cathy” Mueller, a medical student and later an ophthalmic surgeon, with whom he has four children. He returns to academia eventually accepting a position at the U.S. Naval Academy. Later he is recommended to the CIA, eventually spending a short period there writing a position paper as well as developing a counter-espionage mechanism.
He returns to the Academy and while on a history research trip to London, he interrupts an assassination attempt on the Royal Family. After his return to the States, he eventually accepts a position with the CIA. He rises rapidly through the ranks in a variety of covert operations against the USSR, eventually becoming the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. As DDI, he begins having political battles which eventually lead to him becoming President of the United States, serving two terms and dealing with international crises in the Pacific.
The following is the chronological order of the Jack Ryan series:
1. Patriot Games
2. Red Rabbit
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. The Cardinal in the Kremlin
5. Clear and Present Danger
6. The Sum of All Fears
7. Debt of Honor
8. Executive Orders
9. Command Authority
10. Full Force and Effect
A formative episode in the life of the Clancy’s character John Kelly, known as “Mr Clark”. In Vietnam, special operations veteran Kelly was known as “the snake” – the man whose footsteps no one ever heard. Now, in 1970, back in the USA, footsteps were all around him.
The author of “The Hunt for Red October” has produced another adventure thriller centred upon a scheme by the Ulster Liberation Army to kidnap the Prince of Wales. Jack Ryan with his Marine training foils this attempt but in the process becomes a target of Northern Ireland’s most dangerous men.
Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine named Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was a historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England while researching a book. A(…)
A race between the Soviet and American fleets to find an errant Russian submarine.
The superpower arms negotiations appear to be making progress, but a US spy satellite reveals that the Soviets are building a massive laser-defence system.
Another suspense-filled novel by the author of Patriot Games & The Hunt for Red October. Colombian drug lords, the assassination of American officials, and an intricate pattern of covert operations in South America and at home set off international alarms.
A NEW WORLD ORDER…ON THE BRINK OF DESTRUCTION Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East — as Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play; with one terrible act, distrust mounts,forces collide, and the floundering U.S.(…)
Clancy’s hero Jack Ryan fights to defend the USA against economic sabotage from the East. Called out of retirement to serve as the new National Security Advisor, Ryan soon realizes that the problems of peace are as complex as those of war.
A thriller in which Jack Ryan is faced with crushing responsibilities when he becomes the new President of the US after a jumbo jet crashes into the Capitol Building in Washington, leaving the President dead, along with most of the Cabinet and Congress.
Featuring John Clark, the ex-Navy Seal known from several of Clancy’s novels, as the dark side of Jack Ryan, this is Tom Clancy’s new and most extraordinary novel. John Clark is the man who conducts the secret missions President Ryan can have no part of. Whether hunting warlords in Japan or druglords in Colombia, Clark(…)
Being President, Jack Ryan discovers, doesn’t get any easier, particularly not when domestic pitfalls await him at every turn and in Moscow someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR (formerly the KGB) with a rocket-propelled grenade. Who were the potential assassins – were they Russian mafia, disaffected former KGB or(…)
A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. Mohammed has a strong network of agents and sympathizers throughout Europe and the Middle East, and the Colombian has an equally strong drug network throughout America. What if they were to form an alliance, to combine all(…)
Command Authority sees the return of Tom Clancy’s greatest hero, Jack Ryan. Decades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed to be a simple support mission to investigate the death of an operative who had been looking into suspicious banking activities at a Swiss(…)