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
Patricia Ryan (author) Long Historical Romance" of 2000. As P.B. Ryan, she created the Nell Sweeney historical mystery series. The series is set in post-Civil War Boston (19th century). "Murder in a Mill Town" was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Patricia Burford Ryan's novels have been critically acclaimed and published in over twenty countries. Patricia Ryan (author) Patricia Burford Ryan (born August 9, 1954 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States) is an American writer of romance novels as Patricia Ryan and mystery novels as P.B. Ryan. She is the twin sister of the romance writer Pamela Burford. She won a