Dont Miss the Original Series Tom Clancys Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski Tom Clancy reveals the details of Jack Ryans first days with the CIA in this 1 New York Times bestseller. Its the early 1980sand historian teacher and recent exMarine Jack Ryan is now a CIA officer on loan to the British SIS. On his very first day an extraordinary document crosses his desk. Because of government repression in Poland the new Pope John Paul II has threatened to resign his papacy. In Moscow another man is contemplating the very same document. Yuriy Andropov the chairman of the KGB does not like what he reads does not like what it means for him or for his nation. All it takes is one man to cause everything he has worked for to crumble. All it takes is one man to stop him. The Pope is very powerful but he is also mortal.... show more