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
Patrick Ryan (author) a dysfunctional family. Celebrated author Edmund White compared Ryan's writing to that of John Cheever. The "Bay Area Reporter" called "Send Me" "a masterfully eventful novel..." while a reviewer at the "Seattle Times" said it was "a meticulously crafted, immensely satisfying piece of work." Ryan followed up in 2008 with the young adult novel "Saints of Augustine". Two best teenage friends, one gay and one not, struggle with family issues, drug abuse, divorce, dating, and a rupture in their friendship. In 2009, he published a second young adult novel, "In Mike We Trust", which examines a young man's relationship with