Jack Ryan (TV series) Jack Ryan (TV series) Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, or simply Jack Ryan, is an American action political thriller web television series, based on characters from the fictional "Ryanverse" created by Tom Clancy, that premiered on August 31, 2018 on Amazon Video. The series was created by Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland. Cuse serves as an executive producer alongside John Krasinski, Michael Bay and Mace Neufeld, among others. Krasinski also stars in the series as the titular character, making him the fifth actor to portray the character after Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine from the film series.
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