Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit the bottom of every problem that comes up in about five seconds." 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
Patricia Ryan (author) 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 Golden Heart award in 1994 in the category "short contemporary series" and two Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards. Her book "Silken Threads" also won a RITA, the top award of the Romance Writers of America, for "Best Long Historical Romance" of 2000. Patricia Burford and her twin Pamela Burford were born on August