Jack Ryan (character) (with the aid of a Mexican drug cartel and an Arab bomb maker) in order to stop his persistent interference. During a state visit to Mexico City, Ryan barely survives the attempt on his life. The Campus later uncovers Choi's involvement in the incident, which leads to the dictator being deposed from power and later executed. Jack Ryan has been featured in 21 novels which have been written by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney, Mike Maden, and Marc Cameron. Clancy solely wrote most of the novels up to 2010, from which his next novels were co-written with Greaney and Grant Blackwood.
William Patrick (author) William Patrick (author) William Patrick is an editor, book doctor, and ghost-writer, and the co-author of "Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection". He has also written two well-regarded suspense novels. He began his career at Little, Brown, then moved to Harvard University Press, where he acquired and edited works by the likes of Edward O. Wilson and Jane Goodall. While working at Harvard he wrote "Spirals" (Houghton), a novel set in Cambridge during the early days of cloning and recombinant DNA research. His next work of fiction was "Blood Winter" (Viking), a thriller about germ warfare which