Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a 2014 American action thriller spy film directed by Kenneth Branagh. Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Branagh, and Keira Knightley star in leading roles. The film features the fictional character Jack Ryan created by author Tom Clancy. It is the fifth film in the "Jack Ryan" series but is presented as a reboot that departs from the previous installments. Unlike its predecessors, it is not an adaptation of a particular Clancy novel, but rather an original story. Pine stars in the title role, becoming the fourth actor to play Ryan, following Alec
John Haskell (author) "McSweeney's"). He has taught writing and literature at Columbia University, Cal Arts, and the Leipzig University. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and lives in Brooklyn. John Haskell (author) John Haskell (born February 10, 1958) is the author of a short-story collection, "I Am Not Jackson Pollock" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), and the novels "American Purgatorio" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) and "Out of My Skin" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009). He's also the author of "The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts" (Graywolf Press, 2017). His stories and essays