Cast Some of the key characters in the Ryanverse have been portrayed in the following films and television series:
Presidents A total of six presidents are depicted in the Ryanverse, although only five are named: • The unnamed man referred to as "the President" or later by his Secret Service codename "Wrangler", is first introduced in
The Hunt for Red October; he remains in office through
The Cardinal of the Kremlin and
Clear and Present Danger. At the end of the last novel, he runs for reelection and is defeated. •
J. Robert Fowler, former governor of Ohio, defeats the incumbent president at the end of
Clear and Present Danger and is in office during
The Sum of All Fears. After his failure to handle the Denver crisis nearly results in nuclear war, he resigns from office at the end of the novel. •
Roger Durling, Fowler's vice president, former governor of California and a Vietnam veteran with service in the
82nd Airborne Division. Durling replaces Fowler when he resigns and is the President in
Debt of Honor. He nearly completes Fowler's term as president and is planning a reelection campaign when he is killed along with most of the government when a Japanese jetliner crashes into the Capitol. •
John Patrick Ryan is confirmed as Durling's new vice president at the end of
Debt of Honor, and is sworn in as president when Durling is murdered on the same day. His claim to the presidency is contested by Durling's former vice president Ed Kealty in
Executive Orders, but the courts eventually rule in Ryan's favor. He is mentioned during
Rainbow Six although he never appears, and is depicted as president in
The Bear and the Dragon. Ryan chooses not to run for re-election between the events of
The Bear and The Dragon and
The Teeth of The Tiger. •
Robert Jefferson "
Robby"
Jackson succeeds Ryan as President of the United States after Ryan retires (as described in
The Teeth of the Tiger), with Ryan believing he could leave the country in Robby's capable hands. After serving out the remainder of Ryan's term, Robby campaigned for his own re-election. While travelling in Mississippi, however, Jackson was assassinated by Duane Farmer, a 67-year-old member of the
Ku Klux Klan. •
Edward Jonathan Kealty: Durling's former vice president, replaced by Jack Ryan after a sex scandal. When incumbent president Robby Jackson is assassinated while campaigning, Kealty is elected president in his own right, a position he holds from
The Teeth of the Tiger to
Locked On. •
John Patrick Ryan: begins his campaign for reelection during the events of
Dead or Alive, defeats Kealty by a narrow margin in
Locked On and assumes office prior to the events of
Threat Vector. He is depicted as president in all subsequent Ryanverse novels. Various books contain references to the presidencies of
Ronald Reagan and
George H. W. Bush as if they had happened.
The Campus Beginning with
The Teeth of the Tiger, Ryanverse novels feature The Campus, a covert counter-terrorism and intelligence organization. Hendley Associates, a
private trading and arbitrage company, serves as a legitimate cover for the organization, or its "white-side". They fund The Campus's intelligence operations by stock market trades influenced by captured intelligence data, thus removing federal oversight and allowing free rein in the Campus's operations. The Campus was later integrated by President Ryan and Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley into the U.S. intelligence community in
Flash Point to deal with a crisis at the
South China Sea. •
Gerald Paul "
Gerry"
Hendley Jr.: founder & CEO. A former Democratic senator from
South Carolina, Hendley was tasked by then-President Ryan to lead The Campus and its cover Hendley Associates. •
John Clark: director of operations. He was employed by The Campus after retiring from the CIA and Rainbow in
Dead or Alive, and after a brief retirement replaces Sam Granger as operations head in
Command Authority. •
Domingo "
Ding"
Chavez: senior operations officer. Along with Clark, he was recruited by The Campus after retiring from the CIA and Rainbow. Ding helps train new agents for the Campus as well and participates in field operations. •
Gavin Biery: director of information technology •
Jack Ryan Jr.: intelligence analyst and operations officer. Originally an analyst, he becomes more involved in field operations from
Dead or Alive onwards, initially to the concern of his father. He becomes a team leader in
Flash Point. He is also depicted as a venture capitalist for Hendley Associates from
Line of Demarcation onwards. •
Dominic "Dom" Caruso: operations officer and former FBI special agent •
Adara Sherman: operations officer from
True Faith and Allegiance onwards and former director of transportation. In a relationship with Dom Caruso. •
Bartosz "
Barry"
Jankowski (call sign "
Midas"): operations officer and former
Delta Force operator. Recruited by Clark in
True Faith and Allegiance. •
Lisanne Robertson: operations officer and former director of transportation. Introduced in
Power and Empire. Loses her left arm in
Shadow of the Dragon. Engaged to Jack Junior at the end of
Flash Point, but breaks off the engagement at the end of
Terminal Velocity. •
Master Sergeant Cary Marks: a member of
Operational Detachment Alpha 555 who worked with the Campus on several missions. Introduced in
Target Acquired and appears in subsequent Jack Junior novels. •
Sergeant First Class Jad Mustafa: a member of Operational Detachment Alpha 555 who worked with the Campus on several missions. Introduced in
Target Acquired and appears in subsequent Jack Junior novels. •
Steven "Chilly" Edwards: operations officer. Introduced in
Chain of Command as a police officer in
Abilene, Texas who rescues First Lady Cathy Ryan from Camarilla operatives and is recruited by Clark and Chavez at the end of the novel. •
Amanda "Mandy" Cobb: operations officer and graduate of the
FBI Academy. First appeared in
Command and Control. •
Master Chief Kendrick Moore: operations officer. A former Navy SEAL team leader, Moore was forced out after an
Islamic State defector told
The New York Times that his team had killed a suspected terrorist while under interrogation. Recruited by Clark in
Shadow State and appears in subsequent Jack Junior novels. •
Tom Buck: an active-duty
Marine Raider who worked with the Campus on an operation in
Pakistan in
Terminal Velocity •
Helen Reid: pilot of Hendley Associates's
Gulfstream G550 •
Chester "
Country"
Hicks: co-pilot of Hendley Associates's Gulfstream G550 •
Sam Driscoll: operations officer and former
Army Ranger. He was recruited by Clark after the Kealty administration dropped murder charges against him for killing sleeping Middle Eastern terrorists in a cave in Pakistan during the hunt for the Emir in
Dead or Alive. Dies in an operation in Mexico City in
Full Force and Effect. •
Brian Caruso: operations officer and former Marine Major, and Dom's brother. Dies in an operation in Libya in
Dead or Alive. •
Jerry Rounds: chief of strategic planning / director of intelligence •
Rick Bell: chief of analysis •
Sam Granger: director of operations. Killed by the Chinese in
Threat Vector. •
Tony Wills: intelligence analyst who originally trained Jack Ryan Jr. on the intelligence side of The Campus ==Adaptations==