John Clark (Tom Clancy character) Deadline announced that Stefano Sollima is in talks to direct the film adaptation of "Without Remorse". John Clark (Tom Clancy character) John T. Clark (real name John Terrence Kelly) is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy. Clark is Clancy’s second most famous character after Jack Ryan, and has been featured in many of his Ryanverse novels. Although he first appeared in "The Cardinal of the Kremlin" (1987), his origin story was detailed in "Without Remorse" (1993). Clark has been described by his creator as "Ryan’s dark side" and "more inclined to take physical action than Jack is." A former
Father John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan Father John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan Father John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan is the protagonist in a series of 17 mystery novels by Roman Catholic priest and author Father Andrew Greeley. Fictionally, "Blackie" is a portly, little man. As the innocuous auxiliary bishop (under Cardinal Sean Cronin) and rector of the Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, he travels the Archdiocese of Chicago and around the world (at Cardinal Cronin's ""See to it, Blackwood!"" charge) solving locked-room mysteries related to the Roman Catholic Church and its members. In his fictional biography, John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan was born in 1945 to a large Irish-American family,