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The former insurance agent-turned-novelist who died in 2013, was known for recurring themes of espionage, Soviet operatives, military-inspired storylines, corrupt government agencies, and other makings of a gripping action film.Jack Ryan, Clancy’s biggest novel-to-film character, is a CIA analyst whose various missions have been the premise for most of the films that his books were adapted from.
Ryan was also the lead of the first novel he ever sold (“The Hunt for Red October”).
Several actors have taken on the role of Ryan including Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, and,
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