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
Temperance Brennan writes crime novels with a fictional forensic anthropologist named Kathy Reichs as the protagonist. Temperance Brennan also appears in the 2007 Jasper Fforde novel "First Among Sequels". Temperance Brennan also appears very briefly in the 2011 book "Seizure" by Kathy Reichs. Temperance Brennan Temperance Deassee Brennan is a fictional character and TV show character acted by Emily Deschanel but created by author Kathy Reichs, and is the hero of her crime novel series (which are usually referred to as the Temperance Brennan novels). She was introduced in Reichs' first novel, "Déjà Dead", which was published in 1997. All the novels