and the Soviet Union, due to the incompetence of the new President and his mistress with an anti-Ryan agenda. This nearly triggers a war between the U.S. The Sum of All Fears (1991) Palestinian and former East German terrorists find a nuclear weapon that had been lost by Israel, and use it to attack the United States. The 1994 film stars Harrison Ford as Ryan, Willem Dafoe as Clark, and Raymond Cruz as Chavez. Domingo 'Ding' Chavez (Clark's protege in later novels) is one of the rescued soldiers. Ryan meets Clark as they lead a mission to rescue the abandoned soldiers. Clear and Present Danger (1989) The President authorizes the CIA to use American military forces in a covert war against a drug cartel in Colombia. Ryan leads a CIA operation aimed at extracting the agency's highest agent-in-place in the Kremlin, codenamed CARDINAL, who is being hunted by the KGB, and simultaneously forces the head of the KGB to defect. First appearance of John Clark and Sergey Golovko. The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988) The sequel to The Hunt for Red October. The 1992 movie stars Harrison Ford as Ryan and Samuel L.

Jack Ryan, as well as his family, becomes a target of the Ulster Liberation Army (ULA), a fictional offshoot of the Irish Republican Army, for foiling their attack on the Prince and Princess of Wales in London. Patriot Games (1987) Prequel to The Hunt for Red October. This book is not a member of the Ryanverse, although a protagonist of the story, Robert Toland, has many similarities with Jack Ryan.

Red Storm Rising (1986, with Larry Bond) War between NATO and USSR. The 1990 movie stars Alec Baldwin as Ryan and Sean Connery as Captain Ramius. CIA analyst Jack Ryan assists in the defection of a respected Soviet naval captain, who commands Red October, the Soviet Navy's most advanced ballistic missile submarine. The Hunt for Red October (1984) Clancy's first published novel. The following is a complete list of books published by Tom Clancy, an American author of contemporary spy fiction and military fiction.

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