Jack Ryan (character) Jack Ryan (character) John Patrick "Jack" Ryan, Sr. is a fictional character created by author Tom Clancy and featured in his Ryanverse novels, which have consistently topped the New York Times best seller list over 30 years. Since Clancy’s death in 2013, four other authors have continued the Ryan franchise and its other connecting series with the approval of the Clancy family estate: Mark Greaney, Grant Blackwood, Mike Maden, and Marc Cameron. The son of a Baltimore police detective and a nurse, Jack Ryan is a former U.S. Marine and stockbroker who became a history teacher at Boston College in
Sierra Ripoche Sierra Ripoche Sierra McGrath-Ripoche is a fictional character from Patrick McGrath’s novels. She was introduced in 1990 in the Psychological fiction novel "Spider" as Sierra and became an omnipresent character in the works of the author. Patrick McGrath admitted in 1992 that this running story was created to make live his daughter-like character. Sierra was first introduced in "Spider" as "a raw diamond" who lived the calm city of Beignet as a server in a restaurant. It appears quickly that her beauty, through "the reddening color" of her hair and the "intensity of her blue eyes", and her interpersonal skills