Jack Ryan (TV series) television series adaptation of Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" series of novels. The potential series was described as "a new contemporary take on the character using the novels as source material". Production companies involved with the project were slated to include Paramount Television, Platinum Dunes and Skydance Media. A week later, following a bidding war among multiple television networks, it was announced that streaming service Amazon Video had purchased the rights to the series. Amazon proceeded to put the production into development during which time they ordered three scripts written by Cuse and Roland. On August 16, 2016, it was announced
Patrick Ryan (author) a dysfunctional family. Celebrated author Edmund White compared Ryan's writing to that of John Cheever. The "Bay Area Reporter" called "Send Me" "a masterfully eventful novel..." while a reviewer at the "Seattle Times" said it was "a meticulously crafted, immensely satisfying piece of work." Ryan followed up in 2008 with the young adult novel "Saints of Augustine". Two best teenage friends, one gay and one not, struggle with family issues, drug abuse, divorce, dating, and a rupture in their friendship. In 2009, he published a second young adult novel, "In Mike We Trust", which examines a young man's relationship with