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Jack Ryan , of its true name John Patrick Ryan , is a fictitious character of the Romance S of Tom Clancy. It received the title of Chevalier by the Queen of England to have saved the heirs to the crown in War games .
American, it is wire of a police officer of Baltimore. Of Irish origin, it made its studies in a private school Catholique before being graduate of history and economy to the Georgetown university. It briefly served in the US Marine Body, before being seriously wounded following a crash landing of helicopter. It was returned with the civil life once cured.
He was professor of history to the naval academy of Annapolis, then consultant-analyst with the CIA. He will be meanwhile tallies at Lynch, the quoted on the stock exchange company of his father-in-law, where he piles up a fortune. Usually speaking the Russian and specialist in the Soviet Union, it knew a fast rise within the Agency.
Its first mission on the ground, as an analyst for the CIA, is reported in Red Rabbit : exfiltrer a captain of the transmissions of the KGB (Oleg Ivanovitch) and its family of the east coast of the iron curtain. Had with its position, this last reveals the presence of spies placed high within the Western administration and the circumstances of the operation 15-8-82-666: the assassination of the Polish pope. Jack Ryan receives the order to thwart this attack, mission which will show a half-failure. Let us note that Jack Ryan works for the first time with ED Foley in Red Rabbit in an indirect way.
It was the first to include/understand the intentions of Marko Ramius, ordering Soviet submarine Red October ( in With the continuation of Red October ). Later, it allowed the evacuation of the Cardinal agent, and the passage to the west of Nikolai Gerasimov, director of the KGB ( in the Cardinal of the Kremlin ). It took part in an action against the drug trafficking in Colombia, where it became acquainted with John Clark and Ding Chavez ( in Immediate danger ).
Become director-assistant of the CIA in the Sum of all the fears , he was the craftsman of the israélo-Palestinian peace plan, but it was occulted by Robert Fowler, president of the the United States and by Elizabeth Elliot, which hated it. In this business, it avoided a nuclear war between the the United States and the Soviet Union while entering directly in communication with the Soviet president, Andrei It Narmonov.
In Debt of honor , Fowler having resigned, it was named Conseiller with the national security. It was then quickly named Vice-président by the US president Roger Durling, then became President by interim with dead of this one, carrying out the war against the Plain Islamic Republic, State gathering Iran and Iraq, directed by the Ayatollah Daryaei, which had attacked the E. - U. with weapons bacteriological ( in On order ).
As a President of the United States, it faces the alarm clock of the popular China which lorgne of the fabulous gold and oil reservoirs in Siberia in order to start again its staggering economy. But, to obtain these resources, this China is ready to make the war in weakened Russia. Jack Ryan proposes an alliance in Russia then ( in the Bear and the Dragon )
Jack Ryan was personified with the screen by three actors:
- Alec Baldwin ( With the Red continuation of October , 1990)
- Harrison Ford ( War games , 1992 and Immediate danger , 1994)
- Ben Affleck ( the Sum of all the fears , 2002)
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