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* ''[[Rainbow Six (novel)|Rainbow Six]]'' -- [[Badass]] Clark and Junior Badass Ding Chavez join an international paramilitary counterterrorism force. Little do they suspect that they'll be facing an enemy within their own country. Adapted into [[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (video game)|a series of video games]].
* ''[[The Bear and the Dragon]]'' -- China, facing an economic and political crisis, [[China Takes Over the World|decides to invade Russia.]] The U.S. must cement a friendship with its once-greatest foe to fight off the aggressor. But what will Ryan do when the threat turns nuclear?
* ''The Teeth of the Tiger'' (late spring 2006, based on the age of Jack Ryan, Jr., and summer approaching at one point) The U.S. is now engaged in a [[War on Terrorism|global war on terrorism]], in response to the [[September 11 attacks|September 11th attacks]] which occurred in the Ryanverse as they did in the real world. The wars in [[war in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]] and [[war in Iraq|Iraq]] occurred in the Ryanverse continuity, and the Jerusalem treaty signed in ''The Sum of All Fears'' has failed, as Israelis and [[Palestinians]] went back to fighting each other.
* ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' - The Emir, mastermind of the terrorists from the previous novel, has even grander attacks planned against the United States, and the Campus, set up to do for the US what official intelligence agencies cannot by Jack Ryan Sr., now must stop him for good.
* ''[[Locked On]]'' - Jack Ryan Sr. is running for president again., while the current president tries to find ways to discredit Ryan. In the process, John Clark becomes a fugitive while a thought defeated enemy tries to use these efforts for revenge against the Campus.
* ''[[Threat Vector]]'' - Ryan has been sworn in as President of the United States after having been elected the previous year. Meanwhile, the Chinese have recovered from their defeat in ''The Bear and the Dragon'', this time intent on taking out Taiwan, and this time, they are much better prepared, to the point the Campus finds itself facing a mirror image of itself when they try to interfere.
* ''[[Command Authority]]'' - Ryan Sr. finds himself enemy to a new Russia, now back to its role as antagonist to America as an anti-American strongman named Valeri Volodin now plans to restore Russia back to her former glory by force, even to the point of seizing the Ukraine. And old friend of Ryan Sr. leaves him a clue as he lays dying to how to stop Volodin, and it also ties into events from Ryan Sr. own past, all the way back before ''The Hunt For Red October'', event that have left Ryan's only hopes in a man from his past with a grudge against him, one his own son must nonetheless protect, as that same man can expose a deadly secret from Volodin's own past as well.
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