Jack Ryan (character)

Dr. John Patrick "Jack" Ryan Sr., KCVO (Hon.), Ph.D. is a fictional character
Jack Ryan
created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective
film adaptations.

Jack Ryan was born in Baltimore in 1950 and grew up there. He earned an
NROTC commission in the Marines at Boston College. Medically discharged at
the rank of 2ndLt following a helicopter crash, he worked as an investment
broker. He met and married Caroline "Cathy" Mueller, a medical student and
later an ophthalmic surgeon, with whom he had four children. He returned to
academia, eventually accepting a position at theU.S. Naval Academy.

He was later recommended to the CIA, eventually spending a short period there
writing a position paper, as well as developing a counter-espionage mechanism.
He returned to the academy and, while on a history research trip to London,
interrupted a kidnapping attempt on the royal family. After his return to the
Jack Ryan is portrayed by John
States, he eventually accepted a position with the CIA. He rose rapidly through
Krasinski (center), Alec Baldwin (upper
the ranks in a variety of covert operations against the USSR, eventually
left), Harrison Ford (upper right), Ben
becoming a Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. As DDI, he
Affleck (lower left) and Chris Pine (lower
fought numerous political battles that eventually led to him becoming President
right).
of the United States, serving two terms and dealing with international crises in
First The Hunt for Red October
Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific.
appearance (1984)
Created by Tom Clancy
Portrayed Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for
Contents by Red October)

1 Biography Harrison Ford (Patriot

1.1 Backstory Games and Clear and
1.2 Civilian career Present Danger)
1.3 First CIA work
Ben Affleck (The Sum of All
1.4 CIA career
Fears)
1.5 First Ryan administration
1.5.1 Ryan Doctrine Chris Pine (Jack Ryan:
1.5.2 The Campus Shadow Recruit)
1.6 Second Ryan administration John Krasinski (Tom
2 Novels Clancy's Jack Ryan[1])
2.1 Jack Ryan series
2.2 John Clark series
Information
2.3 Jack Ryan Jr. series Gender Male
2.4 Chronological order
Occupation U.S. President,
3 In other media
U.S. Vice President,
3.1 Films
3.2 Television National Security Advisor,
3.3 Video games Deputy Director of the
4 See also Central Intelligence Agency,
5 References CIA Acting DDI,
6 Further reading
 CIA Special Assistant to the
DDI,
Biography CIA Analyst,
Professor, U.S. Naval
Backstory Academy,
Certified Public Accountant
Ryan had his background established in Patriot Games and Red Rabbit. He was
and stockbroker,
born in 1950, the son of Emmet William Ryan (19221974), a Baltimore Police
Department homicide lieutenant, and World War II veteran. The elder Ryan had USMC Second Lieutenant
served with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge. Family Special Agent Dominic
His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan (19231974), was a nurse. Without Remorse "Enzo" Caruso, FBI
mentioned that he had a sister, who lived in Seattle. (nephew)

After graduating from Loyola Blakefield prep school in Towson, Maryland, Captain Brian "Aldo"
Ryan attended Boston College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Caruso, USMC (nephew)
economics (with a strong minor in history) and a commission as a second Spouse(s) Caroline "Cathy"
lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps (via Officer Candidate School). While Muller/Ryan
waiting for the Corps to assign him, he passed the Certified Public Accountant
Children Olivia Barbara "Sally" Ryan
exam.[2]
John Patrick "Jack" Ryan
After officer training at Marine Corps Base Quantico, he went on to serve as a Jr.
Marine infantry Platoon leader. However, his military career was cut short at the Kathleen "Katie" Ryan
age of 23 when his platoon's helicopter, a CH-46 Sea Knight, crashed during a
Kyle Daniel Ryan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercise over the Greek island of Crete. The
crash badly injured Ryan's back. U.S. Navy surgeons, at the National Naval Religion Catholic
Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, inadequately repaired his back. This led
to a lengthy recovery process (during which he nearly became addicted to pain medications) after which, complete with a permanent
disability and wearing a back brace, he left the Marines. He passed his stockbroker's exam and took a position with Wall Street
investment firm Merrill Lynch's Baltimore office.

His parents died in a plane crash at Chicago Midway International Airport, 19 months after his crash in Crete. He developed a fear of
flying that persisted for years.

The film version of The Hunt for Red October changed his education background to being a 1972 graduate of the US Naval
Academy.

Civilian career
Ryan's story starts in Patriot Games and continues in Red Rabbit. While managing clients' portfolios, he began to invest his own
money, banking on a tip he had received from an uncle about the workers' takeover of the Chicago and North Western Railway,
making about $6 million off his $100,000 initial investment. He did so well that one of Merrill Lynch's senior vice presidents, Joe
Muller, came to Baltimore to have dinner with him, with the objective of inviting him to the firm's New York City headquarters. Also
present is Muller's daughter Caroline, nicknamed Cathy, then a senior medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine. They immediately fall in love and get engaged. One night, while having dinner with his fiance, Ryan throws out his back.
Cathy takes him directly to Doctor Stanley Rabinowitz, professor ofneurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, to be evaluated. Rabinowitz later
operates on Ryan's back and cures his chronic pain in relatively short order (in a later novel, the surgeon is credited as Sam Rosen, a
doctor introduced in Without Remorse). Ryan subsequently persuades the government to terminate his disability checks. Cathy later
becomes an ophthalmic surgeon at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Professor of
Surgery at Johns Hopkins.
After creating a net worth of $8 million, Ryan left the firm after four years and enrolled at Georgetown University for six doctoral
courses in history. He does a brief stint at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then accepts a position at the U.S. Naval
Academy as a civilian professor of history.

First CIA work

Following a recommendation from Father Tim O'Riley, a Jesuit priest and Georgetown University professor, to a Central Intelligence
Agency contact, Ryan was asked to work as a consultant for the agency, although officially employed by MITRE Corporation. He
agreed and spent several months at Langley, Virginia, where he wrote a paper entitled "Agents and Agencies", in which he
maintained that state-sponsored terrorism is an act of war. He also invented the canary trap, a method for exposing an information
leak, which involves giving different versions of a sensitive document to each of a group of suspects and seeing which version is
leaked. By ensuring that each copy of the document differs slightly in its wording, if any copy is leaked, then it is possible to
determine the informant's identity.

These accomplishments come to the attention of U.S. Navy Vice Admiral James Greer, the CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence.
The expertise of Ryan's report, plus the application, persuaded Greer to of
fer him a permanent job in the CIA, but Ryan declined.

While Ryan was still teaching at the Naval Academy, his family (wife and daughter Sally) and he take a trip to London for research
and vacationing. After spending the day sifting through Royal Navy archives doing research for a book on the British naval war in
the Indian Ocean during World War II, Ryan walks to meet his family at a park. As he joins them, members of the Ulster Liberation
Army (ULA), an ultraviolentMaoist offshoot of the Marxist Provisional Irish Republican Army, led by Kevin O'Donnell, attack a car
containing the Prince of Wales and his family in front of the Ryans. Ryan is wounded while intervening in the attack and foils their
plan, killing one of the gunmen and capturing another. Ryan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II as an honorary Knight Commander of
the Royal Victorian Order; in the books, some British characters call him "Sir John", but honorary knights are not permitted to use the
style of "Sir".[3]

Sean Miller, the man he captured, vows revenge on Ryan and his family (only in the movie, not the book), but since he is going to
Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight, the threat seems unrealistic. Ryan returns to the U.S. and the Naval Academy. When O'Donnell
and the ULA liberate Miller on his way to prison (killing both police officers and civilians in the process), the Ryans become the
target of their revenge particularly Miller's.

CIA career
In Patriot Games, Greer comes to Ryan and asks him to rejoin the CIA permanently as an analyst to help track down the terrorists.
He declines initially, only to accept it after a failed ULA attack on the Ryans mildly wounds his pregnant wife, but severely injures
his daughter. Later, while Ryan hosts the Prince and Princess of Wales at his home in Maryland, the IRA conducts another attack
against him, which Ryan, the Prince, and Navy Commander Robert Jackson foil. Following the incident and arrests of the ULA
members and Miller (whom Ryan nearly executes with his Browning Hi Power), Ryan is taken to the Naval Academy hospital, where
he arrives just in time for the birth ofJack Ryan Jr.

In Red Rabbit, Ryan's first CIA assignment is to London as a member of a liaison group to the British Secret Intelligence Service.
The first order of business focuses on a mission to assist the defection of a KGB communications-center officer who has discovered
that KGB director Yuri Andropov had ordered Pope John Paul II's attempted assassination. Although Ryan and a small team of
British agents helps the "Rabbit" and his family get to the West, they fail to prevent the attack on the Pope. Nevertheless, the Pope is
only wounded and his would-be assassin captured, while the British agents execute his Bulgarian handler. "Rabbit's" defection proves
to be a major coup for both the American and British intelligence communities. Ryan soon afterward suggests a nonmilitary strategy
to help hasten the Soviet Union's collapse.

In The Hunt for Red October, Captain First Rank Marko Ramius, theSoviet Navy's top submarine commander, takes command of the
(Krasny Oktyabr, or in English, Red October), the newest Typhoon-class submarine, with which he plans to
defect. Ryan recognizes this and works to welcome him to the U.S., eventually succeeding.
In The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Ryan is reassigned to Langley. He becomes Greer's assistant with the official title of Special Assistant
to the Deputy Director for Intelligence. Greer is grooming him for bigger and better positions, maybe even his own job when the
veteran spy finally retires. Ryan is sent to Moscow as part of the American strategic nuclear weapons reduction negotiation team.
There, he meets Sergey Golovko, a rising star in the KGB hierarchy, and becomes entangled in a complex web related to both the
race to develop "Star Wars" space-based defensive technology and engineer another defection, this time compromising the KGB
director to save the CIA's highest informant in the USSR, Agent CARDINAL, better known as Colonel Misha Filitov. Although they
initially meet as adversariesat one time literally at gunpointGolovko respects him as a worthy adversary and in later books
befriends him, calling him "Ivan Emmetovich", giving him a Russian-stylepatronymic based on his father's name, Emmet.

In Clear and Present Danger, Ryan is promoted to acting DDI when Greer is hospitalized with cancer. Despite this, he is not made
aware of a highly covert and illegal CIA operation approved by corrupt National Security Advisor Admiral Cutter. This operation
targets Colombian drug lords using military assets, in what is usually considered a law enforcement area. Ryan works with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation to rescue a small group of American soldiers cut off in Colombia, forcing him to miss Greer's
funeral. Also in this operation, he first met the US government operative John Clark, with whom he would become friends. Around
this time, Ryan also runs afoul of Elizabeth Elliott, international affairs advisor to then-presidential candidate Governor of Ohio J.
Robert Fowler, and one of Cathy Ryan's former professors.

In The Sum of All Fears, Ryan reaches his highest post at the CIA, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. His career is jeopardized
when Fowler becomesPresident and Elizabeth Elliott, Fowler's lover/manipulator, becomes National Security Advisor. They not only
deny Ryan any credit for an innovative Middle East peace plan (basically turning Jerusalem into a Vatican-like city co-ruled by three
Christian, Jewish, and Arab mayors), but also panic when Iranian and former East German terrorists detonate a nuclear bomb in
Denver during the Super Bowl and nearly plunge the world into a Soviet-American nuclear war. Ryan defuses the nuclear crisis by
commandeering the Washington-Moscow hot line and convincing the Soviet Premier (through his friend Golovko) that the crisis is a
setup. He then refuses to confirm Fowler's order to launch a nuclear missile at Qom (thus preventing the attack), where the Iranian
ayatollah lives. The crisis and Elliot scandal drive Fowler to resign, and on this note, Ryan retires from the CIA after his CIA friends
and he flies to Riyadh and witness the execution of the terrorists, then being honored by the U.S.'s Middle Eastern allies. (The film
version again departs from the printed version, by presenting a younger, unmarried Ryan, an intelligent mistress-free Fowler, a Greer-
like Cabot, and the nuclear bomb is detonated in Baltimore, not Denver
.)

First Ryan administration

In Debt of Honor, Ryan returns to government service as the National Security Advisor, restoring honor to the job that Cutter and
Elliot disgraced. It has been two and a half years since Fowler resigned and his vice president, Roger Durling, is now well into his
own term. Jack and the administration must deal with a second war between the U.S. and Japan, as well as an attack on America's
economic infrastructure. After a clean sweep of Japan's forces in the South Pacific, Vice President Ed Kealty is forced to resign after
a sex scandal and President Durling taps Ryan for the job. Ryan accepts the job on the condition that he will only serve until the end
of Durling's term. He sees this as a way of ending his public life. Only minutes after Congress confirms Ryan, though, a Japanese
airline pilot deliberately crashes a 747 into the U.S. Capitol building during Congress' joint session, killing most of the people inside,
decapitating the U.S. government, and elevating R
yan to the Presidency.

The reluctant yet determined Ryan administration emerges in Executive Orders as Ryan slowly rebuilds the government. He is faced
with Kealty's political trickery, China's growing military antagonizing of Taiwan, and a deadly plague initiated by the newly formed
United Islamic Republic, resulting in two major military conflicts far from American shores (but one will not take place until the next
Ryan novel).

In The Bear and the Dragon, Ryan has completed Durling's term as President and has campaigned forand wonthe next election.
He retains most of his emergency Cabinet and has Robby Jackson as Vice President.

Ryan has to deal with the attempted assassination of Golovko, head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (formerly the KGB).
This turns out to be an attempt to sow confusion in the Russian government because of China's designs to annex Eastern Siberia,
where geologists had recently discovered a large amount of oil and gold. These events lead to the inclusion of Russia into NATO and
the assistance of U.S. forces in the Sino-Russian conflict (although attacks on NATO members outside the Atlantic should not trigger
Article V). When the Chinese begin losing the war
, U.S. forces target their strategic assets. A U.S. submarine sinks a Chineseballistic
missile submarine, causing China's politburo to panic and increase the readiness of their 12 land-based ICBMs. U.S. forces do not
have the ability to destroy the silos, as they could only use deep-penetrating bombs, which had all been used to destroy Chinese
bridges to disrupt the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) logistical support. This causes the U.S. and Russia to send a joint
RAINBOW-Spetsnaz team to destroy the silos. They destroy 11 of the 12 ICBMs, but one of them manages to launch. The warhead
heads towards Washington, DC, and with Ryan taking a command initiative at an Aegis missile cruiser, the ICBM is intercepted by
ABMs from the USS Gettysburg. With the PLA's looming defeat in Siberia, which they were about to learn about via live UAV
broadcasts from the CIA through the Internet, student demonstrators in Beijing raid the politburo, causing a reformist politburo
member, Fang Gan, to take control and arrest the war's perpetrators, making peace negotiations with the U.S. and Russia, and
beginning China's transition to democracy.

Ryan Doctrine
At the end of Executive Orders, Ryan, in the tradition of Presidents Monroe, Truman, Carter and Reagan, issues a foreign policy
doctrine which largely defines his administration's international perspective. The Ryan doctrine states that the U.S. will no longer
[4]
tolerate attacks on "our territory, our possessions, or our citizens," and will hold whoever orders such attacks accountable.

This statement comes soon after the Ebola attack on the U.S. ordered by Mahmoud Haji Daryaei, the dictator of the new United
Islamic Republic. Ryan announces the new doctrine on television, momentarily cutting away to show Daryaei and his UIR advisors
being incinerated by laser-guided bombs launched from two F-117s, on Ryan's orders. Therefore, the Ryan doctrine supersedes the
executive order put in place by President Ford, which forbids the assassination of foreign heads of state. Ryan, however, believes it is
a more ethical alternative thantotal war, since it punishes the person responsible for the attack instead of the people he rules.

Within the books, the Ryan doctrine is not officially invoked after Daryaei's death (although Ryan threatens to use it on the Chinese
leadership in The Bear and the Dragon, should anything happen to American citizens living in China as a consequence of the
Siberian War).

The Campus
Following this, Ryan apparently completes his term and refuses to run for a second elected term. Robby Jackson thus campaigns to
become the first African American President, but is assassinated on a trip to the South, which enables Kealty to become the next
President. (It is also possible from what Jack Ryan Jr. says in Teeth of the Tiger that Jack Sr. resigned, feeling he has done what he
needed to as President, and encouraged Robby Jackson to run for the Presidency.) Before Ryan leaves office, he creates "The
Campus", a covert counter-terrorism organization that fronts as Hendley Associates, a financial trading firm. He also writes 100
presidential pardons for its members, withAttorney General Pat Martin's assistance.

Second Ryan administration

In his retirement, Ryan is living easy with a net worth over $80 million. He is working on two versions of his memoirs, one for
immediate release, and another detailing his CIA career
, to be published posthumously.

However, in Dead or Alive, he becomes increasingly frustrated with the direction in which President Kealty is taking the country,
although he is initially publicly silent. Ultimately, he announces that he will come out of retirement to run for a second full term as
President as a Republican candidate. Despite having originally not being involved in the Campus's activities due to his high-profile
status, he gradually becomes more directly linked to the Campus's operations, aiding them from behind the scenes on occasion. Here,
Ryan learns his elder son, Jack Jr., is a field operative of the Campus.

Ryan campaigns against Kealty in Locked On, facing off against him in various televised debates. It quickly becomes apparent that
Ryan will win the election, as the majority of Americans had never entirely accepted Kealty
. Despite the efforts of Paul Laska, a high-
profile Czech-American billionaire and a devout enemy of Ryan, and key members of the Kealty administration who labelled Ryan's
longtime friend John Clark a fugitive in an effort to expose the Campus (as well as tying Ryan to it by association), Ryan narrowly
wins the election, overcoming all of Kealty's efforts to harm him. The President-elect now prepares to undo the damage the Kealty
administration has done.

Ryan initially finds his return to the presidency easy and without struggle following his re-election, but things quickly start to take a
turn for the worse. Angered by a contraction in economic growth, the majority of the People's Republic of China Politburo Standing
Committee members turn against their procapitalist President Wei Zhen Lin. Wei attempts to commit suicide when a coup is
undertaken by other committee members. Only when Chairman Su Ke Qiang orders PLA tanks to defend Wei did he agree to
promote and support Su's expansionist policies, in exchange for Su's ongoing protection. The expansionist policies - which include
the annexation of Taiwan and the expansion of China's territory into the South China Sea - are finally revealed to the world after
several months. The Ryan administration is vehemently against the new policies, and President Ryan himself decides to take action
by supporting Taiwan, along with India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, which would also be affected by an expansion of
China's territory.

A devastating series of cyber attacks on American infrastructure occurs, enacted by the "Ghost Ship" - a Chinese state-sponsored
version of the Campus, using assets of the Chinese Ministry of State Security and Divine Sword Special Forces. The attacks serve to
compromise the nation's national security apparatus and weaken the United States' resolve. The Campus helps track the attacks to
China, and local investigation pinpoints the exact building where the Ghost Ship is currently quartered. President Ryan orders the
destruction of the building, decapitating China's cyberwarfare abilities.

Ryan makes contact with Wei and warns him that the cyber attacks are considered an act of war on China's part. Wei repeatedly
denies the claim, and reiterates he is supporting Su, though Ryan guesses correctly Su is controlling Wei since saving him from the
attempted coup. Ryan appeals to Wei as a businessman to understand what he is doing will destroy China. After a lengthy, unusual
pause, Wei responds that he must discuss Ryan's claims with Su, providing exact details of when and where Su will be travelling to
address the politburo in regards to the war effort. Ryan takes the information as a request from Wei to have the United States
assassinate Su. A team from the Campus, with support from the Russian FSB, and working with a local rebel force in China, stages
an attack on Su while he is traveling in a motorcade. Su is assassinated by a U.S. sniper, but the event is made to look like Su's own
men turned on him. Ryan announces a blockade of China's oil supplies until the war effort is abandoned, calling upon Wei and the
politburo to accept defeat.

President Wei accepts that the expansionist movement has failed and the United States has won its second war with China, and
decides to take his own life after realizing the politburo will move against him without Su's protection. Wei botches the suicide by
accidentally shooting himself in the cheek, but ends up choking to death on his own blood. Wei and Su's deaths mark the end of the
war in the South China Sea, and Ryan emerges the clear victor in the conflict.

Ryan is featured prominently in Command Authority; Ryan and his administration contend with the Russian Federation, currently led
by their new President, Valeri Volodin. Volodin is established as a dedicated communist opposed to the West, seeking to restore
Russia as a strengthened Soviet Union. Volodin moves to establish ties with Iran and China, reunify the nation's state security
services under the FSB, and most notably annex the Ukraine. Those opposed to his actions are replaced or assassinated by Russian
government forces or elements of the "Seven Strong Men", a Mafia group that is now easily the most powerful and dangerous
criminal underworld faction in Russia. Later, when the FSB and SVR merged under the FSB's banner, Volodin makes the
announcement that FSB director Roman Romanovich aTlanov, Volodin's enigmatic enforcer, is the nation's new intelligence chief.

Sergey Golovko, having retired from the SVR and effectively exiled from Russia for acting as a high-profile Kremlin dissident
against Volodin and his policies, succumbs to poisoning from a radioactive agent while at a private lunch at the White House. Ryan's
old friend dies the next day, but on his deathbed, Golovko relays his concerns of Talanov's unknown background and mysterious
connection to Volodin to Ryan. Ryan resolves to decipher Talanov's history and work out his links to Volodin, hopeful the answers
behind his swift rise to power can be used as leverage against Volodin. As armed conflict becomes increasingly likely, Ryan focuses
on the growing armed standoff in the Ukraine and absorption of the Crimea, with the rest of the Ukraine facing imminent Russian
invasion. An investigation following Golovko's death implicates the SSM working with the FSB. It also possibly identifies Talanov
as a mysterious ex-GRU assassin who operated for the KGB during the Cold War, code-named "Zenith". Ryan is personally alarmed
by these discoveries - he became involved in the Zenith affair in his time with the CIA as a MI6 liaison officer, during an
investigation into a string of deaths in Berlin. Ryan ultimately sensed an unknown Russian operator was at work behind the events in
Berlin, but he was encouraged by MI6 Director General Sir Basil Charleston to let it go. The mystery of Zenith was left unsolved for
30 years, and remained the sole remaining mystery of R
yan's intelligence career.

Operational assets of the Campus, with Jack Ryan Jr. leading the effort (much to his father's displeasure and trepidation for his
safety), ultimately confirm Talanov was Zenith, and Volodin, a senior KGB officer at the time, still acts as his control officer. As
young men, they were employed by members of the KGB and GRU leadership who knew the Soviet Union would eventually fall, but
made a plan to survive and prosper in the chaotic aftermath, so they could seize control of the nation and turn it back to communism
stronger than ever. After siphoning billions from Soviet programs to achieve it, Volodin double-crossed his co-conspirators and had
Talanov kill them all so it would be theirs alone. Others were killed to maintain the safety of their black funds, including the bankers
killed by Talanov during the Zenith affair so as to prevent exposure to the rest of the KGB. Talanov is also the secret leader of the
Seven Strong Men, having been sent undercover with the SSM - placed in a gulag, Talanov worked his way up to become a charter
member and leader of the Seven Strong Men, and through them become FSB director for the SSM's benefit and control of the
government, when in actuality the SSM was a tool for V
olodin's policies.

These discoveries are made with the help of former MI5 officer Victor Oxley, "Bedrock" - an off-book MI5 asset who operated as an
assassin during the Cold War in similar fashion to Talanov, aka Zenith. Oxley's final mission before his disappearance was to hunt
down and kill Zenith, but instead found Ryan Sr. about to be killed by a German Stasi team working with Zenith. Oxley interfered
and saved Ryan's life, but was captured, driven away to Russia, brutally tortured by the KGB, and then imprisoned in the same gulag
where Talanov ultimately was placed, accidentally hearing of Talanov being Zenith from other inmates. Oxley and the Campus team
confront his traitorous control officer Hugh Castor, who confirms the entire story and protected Volodin and Talanov's secret in
exchange for a cut of their black funds, but Castor gives up what he knows for protection by the American government, knowing
Talanov will have realized Castor deceived him over the leverage he had. However, Talanov realizes this faster than Castor
anticipated - he sends a Spetsnaz team to kill Castor and Oxley
, the latter sacrificing himself for Jack Ryan Jr.

As the Russian invasion force pushes into the Ukraine, the Campus team and Delta Force operators arrest Dmitri Nesterov, (Gleb the
Scar), an SSM capo who is Talanov's second-in-command and who was behind Golovko's poisoning. With Nesterov and the
Campus's acquired information in hand, Ryan makes contact with Volodin and confronts him withimplications he could be politically
destroyed by what he has learned about Zenith and Talanov's ties to the SSM: claiming (falsely) to have suitable evidence gathered
that will ruin his government and the invasion, and he must distance himself from Talanov as the Campus has exposed him as a
government spy who has been using them all along. Volodin pulls back his troops; in exchange, the United States keeps what
evidence it has secret. Volodin also forces Talanov to resign from the FSB after his criminal dealings are made public and the SSM
turns on him. Despite the promise of protection, Volodin allows Talanov to be killed - he is stabbed by a civilian member of his guard
force on Nesterov's orders (having been encouraged by John Clark to have Talanov killed so he could succeed him). The stalemate of
Russia and the United States is left ongoing.

Ryan, at this time, is in his mid-sixties and world-famous; and is looking forward to retirement back to the shores of Chesapeake Bay
once and for all.

Ryan is mentioned by title only in Support and Defend; when a National Security Council staff member, Ethan Ross, is exposed by
the FBI as a traitor responsible for leaking classified government information so as to weaken the administration's connections with
friendly governments. He proceeds to flee as a fugitive to Venezuela, with an intelligence cache with enough information to ruin the
CIA. Ryan is said to have made Ross's capture or death the government's top priority, establishing him as America's most wanted.
Ryan's nephew, FBI special agent and Campus operative Dominic Caruso, ultimately succeeds in killing Ross and securing the cache
for the CIA, despite attempts by the Russian FSB and IranianQuds Force to acquire it.

Novels

Jack Ryan series

The Hunt for Red October(1984)
 Patriot Games (1987)
The Cardinal of the Kremlin(1988)
Clear and Present Danger(1989)
The Sum of All Fears (1991)
Debt of Honor (1994)
Executive Orders (1996)
The Bear and the Dragon(2000)
Red Rabbit (2002)

John Clark series

All books are written byTom Clancy.

Without Remorse (1993)

Rainbow Six (1998)

Jack Ryan Jr. series

The Teeth of the Tiger (2003), by Tom Clancy
Dead or Alive (2010), by Tom Clancy, with Grant Blackwood
Locked On (2011), by Tom Clancy, with Mark Greaney
Threat Vector (2012), by Tom Clancy, with Mark Greaney
Command Authority (2013), by Tom Clancy, with Mark Greaney
Support and Defend (2014), by Mark Greaney
Full Force and Effect (2014), by Mark Greaney
Under Fire (2015), by Grant Blackwood
Commander in Chief (2015), by Mark Greaney
Duty and Honor (2016), by Grant Blackwood
True Faith and Allegiance(2016), by Mark Greaney
Point of Contact (2017), by Mike Maden
Power and Empire (2017), by Marc Cameron

Chronological order
In the order in which they occur in the storyline (and when they occur):

Without Remorse (197071, 1973) - Starts late 1970, during clean-up ofHurricane Camille's aftermath. Continues
the following spring, in 1971. This time frame is based on past-tense references to Operation KINGPIN, the real-life
rescue attempt at the Song Tay POW camp in Vietnam (November 1970) and by recurring references to the 1971
Major League Baseball season, in which Pittsburgh defeated Baltimore in the W orld Series. Jack Ryan's father,
Emmet Ryan a Baltimore police detective, is a prominent character . The Epilogue is titled "February 12, 1973. Jack
appears briefly in this novel.
Patriot Games (1981, based on a reference to Ryan's age, which is 31 at the novel's beginning. This roughly fits with
a reference to the Princess of Wales expecting a baby (Prince William was born in summer 1982). Similarly, there is
a specific reference to both 1985 and 1986 in the past tense, suggesting the events of the novel took place after
these dates.)
Red Rabbit (1982), summer, the KGB operation reference is 15 8 1982 - 666 and it is mentioned that this is the date
the first message was sent about killing the Pope, also there is an inconsistency since Suslov is alive in the book, but
he died in January 1982, and described in the book actualPope John Paul II assassination attempttook place May
13th 1981. However, the book also makes references to the Baltimore Orioles winning the World Series with their
"new shortstop Ripken", which occurred in 1983.
The Hunt for Red October(1984)
The Cardinal of the Kremlin(1986) - The first chapter is set in January and states that Ryan is 35 years old. It also
has references to the other books set earlier. For example, the Foleys have been in Moscow for almost four years.
The book must begin (not including a prologue set at the end of the previous year) in January 1986.
Starting with the following novel, the series becomes distinctly dif
ferent from real history as noted below.
 Clear and Present Danger(1988) - This novel, like all previous novels, refers to POTUS as "the President" instead of
giving a name, allowing the materials in the novel to be "inserted" into history , but by the end of the novel, the
nameless president has been replaced by someone with a name:Governor of Ohio Bob Fowler.
The Sum of All Fears (199091) Israel partially cedes sovereignty over Jerusalem to the atican V and Saudi Arabia,
and the city becomes a United Nations protectorate policed bySwiss Guards. Jerusalem's residents can choose
between either Vatican, Israeli, or Islamic judicial law. Denver is devastated by a terrorist nuclear explosion. The
book occurs after the Persian Gulf War and before the USSR's dissolution. While it is implied that both events occur
at the same time in the Ryanverse as in actual history , 1991, in the earlier chapters, it states that it had almost been
two Novembers since President Fowler had been elected, making the beginning set in 1990. Complicating the issue,
though, is that the novels refer to Ronald Reagan and George H.W . Bush as past Presidents, though the nameless
President and Fowler appear to serve during the time of these two Presidents.
Debt of Honor (199596) The U.S. and Russia destroy all of theirballistic missiles. After crippling the U.S.
economy and becoming a nuclear power , Japan invades and takes theMarianas Islands; the U.S. and Japan fight a
brief war, which the Japanese lose (they aresubsequently denuclearized);
Executive Orders (1996) An embittered Japanese pilot and proponent of the war crashes a 747 into the U.S.
Capitol Building immediately after Ryan's confirmation as V ice President, killing most of Congress, the President, all
nine Supreme Court justices, the senior military establishment (including theJoint Chiefs of Staff), and most of the
Cabinet. Ryan is left in charge of a gutted government. The end of the book occurs 11 months before the 1997
presidential inauguration. Of interest, but not crucial to the plot of this or further books, is that North and South Korea
were said to be unified at some point betweenThe Sum of All Fears and this book. The leader of Iraq is
assassinated; Iran and Iraq merge, forming theUnited Islamic Republic; the UIR launches a biological attack on the
U.S. using the Ebola virus; the U.S. launches the secondPersian Gulf War against the UIR, defeats them, and uses
a smart bomb to kill the ayatollah. (Contradiction: InThe Bear and the Dragon, it states Ryan has been President for
15 months and that book occurs afterRainbow Six, which must occur 1999-2000 due to the Olympics in Sydney .
This makes Executive Orders (and Debt of Honor) around 1999, but this makes the gap with the previous books too
large).
Rainbow Six (19992000) - events are based on the2000 Summer Olympicsin Sydney, RAINBOW - an elite
counter-terrorist force - is created and engages terrorists across Europe. Ecoterrorists plan to create a genetically
enhanced virus based on Ebola and cancer cells, which they plan to use to wipe out much of the world's population.
The Bear and the Dragon(2002) Russia is admitted to NATO; China and Russia fight a major war, in which the
U.S. intervenes on Russia's side. It implies that theBritish Prime Minister is Tony Blair. Ryan has won re-election as
president (2001). He refuses to run in the 2004 election, endorsing his vice president, Robby Jackson, as their
party's candidate.
The Teeth of the Tiger (late spring 2006, based on the age of Jack Ryan Jr . and summer approaching at one point)
The U.S. is now engaged in aglobal war on terrorism, in response to the September 11th attackswhich occurred in
the Ryanverse as they did in the real world. The wars inAfghanistan and Iraq occurred in the Ryanverse continuity,
and the Jerusalem treaty signed inThe Sum of All Fears has failed, as Israelis andPalestinians went back to fighting
each other.
Dead or Alive (2007) - A character also explicitly refers to the date as May 2010, in the process of decoding
encrypted messages, but this must be seen as a contradiction, as Ed Kealty is president and only for one term. In
accordance with the Jack Ryan continuity , Kealty must be president in the term 2005-2009.
Locked On (2008) - Jack Ryan is running for president again. Since it is only possible for Kealty to serve one term
per the rules of the Constitution, that term must be from 2005 to 2009. The election happens in this book, too,
making it only possible that the events take place in 2008.
Threat Vector (2009) - Ryan has been sworn in as President of the United States after having been elected the
previous year. The Siberian War with China is said to have happened "seven years" prior , thus making The Bear and
the Dragon around 2002, not 2000 as originally thought.
Command Authority (2013)
Support and Defend (2014-07)
Full Force and Effect (2014-12)
Under Fire (2015)
Commander in Chief (2015)
Duty and Honor (2016)
True Faith and Allegiance(2016)
Point of Contact (2017), by Mike Maden
Power and Empire (2017), by Marc Cameron

In other media

Films
Five films based on Clancy novels featuring Jack Ryan have been produced. The movie portraying the earliest incarnation of Ryan
(fifth film chronologically) is titled Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and stars Chris Pine. Released on January 17, 2014, it follows Ryan's
move from his accident in the Marines into his CIA career. Jack Ryan is also portrayed by Alec Baldwin in the 1990 film The Hunt
for Red October, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games (1992), and Clear and Present Danger (1994), and Ben Affleck in the 2002 film
The Sum of All Fears.

In the novels, Patriot Games occurs before The Hunt for Red October, though the order was reversed in the film versions.
Additionally, The Sum of All Fears is not part of Baldwin/Ford series, but rather an intended reboot of the franchise which departs
significantly from the chronology of the novels. It takes place in 2002, whereas the novel takes place in 1991/1992. Jack Ryan:
Shadow Recruit is a second reboot of the franchise and departs from all previous films.

Television
It was announced by Deadline that Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland will be working with Michael Bay and his production company
Platinum Dunes and Paramount Television on a Jack Ryan TV series for Amazon.[5][6] On April 29, 2016, Deadline announced that
John Krasinski will star as Jack Ryan in the series.[1] On August 16, 2016, Amazon Studios announced they had given a series order
for a 10-episode first season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.[7] On November 4, 2016, Abbie Cornish was cast as Cathy Muller in the
series.[8] On January 6, 2017, it was reported thatMorten Tyldum will direct the pilot.[9] In February 2017, it was announced that The
Americans director Daniel Sackheim would direct multiple episodes and produce the series.[10] The series is set to premiere in March
2018, and is said to be inspired by theHarrison Ford Jack Ryan films.[11]

Video games
Many video games based on the series have been made, some based on the novels, some on the films, and some on the spin-of
fs.

The Hunt for Red October(1987)

The 1987 video game is based on the book

The Hunt for Red October(1990)

The 1990 video game is based on the film

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

The 2002 video game is based on the film

In addition, Ryan is a featured character in many of theRainbow Six universe video games.

See also
Jack (hero)
John Clark
Domingo Chavez
Jack Ryan Jr.
List of fictional U.S. Presidents

References
1. Andreva, Nellie (April 29, 2016)."John Krasinski To Star In 'Jack Ryan' Amazon TV Series From Carlton Cuse &
Paramount TV" (http://deadline.com/2016/04/john-krasinski-jack-ryan-amazon-series-carlton-cuse-1201746919/) .
 2. [1] (http://www.clancyfaq.com/John%20Patrick%20Ryan%20and%20Family.htm) Archived (https://web.archive.org/w
eb/20120209115311/http://www.clancyfaq.com/John%20Patrick%20Ryan%20and%20Family .htm) February 9, 2012,
at the Wayback Machine.
3. "The Monarchy Today > Queen and public >Honours > Knighthoods"(https://web.archive.org/web/2011123115553
8/http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Honours/Knighthoods.aspx). The official website of the British Monarchy.
Archived from the original (http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Honours/Knighthoods.aspx)on December 31, 2011.
Retrieved 2015-05-21.
4. Clancy, Tom (1996). Executive Orders (Berkley mass market ed.). New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books. pp. 861 & 871.
ISBN 9780425158630.
5. Andreva, Nellie (September 22, 2015)."Jack Ryan TV Series From Carlton Cuse, Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes &
Paramount Chased By Nets"(http://deadline.com/2015/09/jack-ryan-tv-series-carlton-cuse-michael-bay-paramount-
1201542529/).
6. Andreva, Nellie (September 30, 2015)." 'Jack Ryan' TV Series From Carlton Cuse & Paramount TV Lands At
Amazon" (http://deadline.com/2015/09/jack-ryan-tv-series-amazon-carlton-cuse-michael-bay-paramount-120155110
8/).
7. Nolfi, Joey (August 16, 2016)."Amazon greenlights 10 episodes of John Krasinki's Jack Ryan series"(http://www.ew.
com/article/2016/08/16/amazon-john-krasinski-jack-ryan-10-episodes)
. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 17,
2016.
8. Andreeva, Nellie (November 3, 2016)." 'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan': Abbie Cornish Cast As Female Lead In Amazon
Series" (http://deadline.com/2016/11/tom-clancy-jack-ryan-cast-abbie-cornish-female-lead-john-krasinski-120184832
9/). Deadline.com. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
9. Andreeva, Nellie (January 6, 2017)." 'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan': 'Passengers' Morten Tyldum To Direct Amazon
Series" (http://deadline.com/2017/01/tom-clancys-jack-ryan-morten-tyldum-direct-amazon-series-1201879916/).
Deadline. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
10. Andreeva, Nellie (January 20, 2017)." 'Dan Sackheim Joins 'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' As Director & Executive
Producer" (http://deadline.com/2017/01/dan-sackheim-tom-clancys-jack-ryan-director-executive-producer-12018903
25/). Deadline. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
11. Travers, Ben (July 29, 2017)." 'Jack Ryan': Amazon's TV Series Is Inspired by the Harrison Ford Movies, Debuts
March 2018" (http://www.indiewire.com/2017/07/jack-ryan-series-tom-clancy-amazon-release-date-1201861405/) .
Indiewire. Retrieved July 30, 2017.

Further reading
Clancy, Tom (1984). Hunt for Red October, The. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-285-0.
Clancy, Tom (1987). Patriot Games. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-13241-4.
Clancy, Tom (1988). Cardinal of the Kremlin, The. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-13345-3.
Clancy, Tom (1989). Clear and Present Danger. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-13440-9.
Clancy, Tom (1991). Sum of All Fears, The. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-13615-0.
Clancy, Tom (1993). Without Remorse. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-13825-0.
Clancy, Tom (1994). Debt of Honor. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-13954-0.
Clancy, Tom (1996). Executive Orders. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-14218-5.
Clancy, Tom (1998). Rainbow Six. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-14390-4.
Clancy, Tom (2000). Bear and the Dragon, The. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-14563-X.
Clancy, Tom (2002). Red Rabbit. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-14870-1.
Clancy, Tom (2003). Teeth of the Tiger, The. G.P. Putnam & Son. ISBN 0-399-15079-X.

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