[RFC] Being You is Deculture

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WRT the Ryan presidency, he became VP and in the endgame interim Prez in Debt of Honor, published 1995, though I don't know if it was set in the same year. The next book was Executive Orders and followed on immediately afterward IC but was published in 1997, so if you were going to hew to something close to the official Clancy timeline he'd probably have been the man in charge during the Unification War, and the events of those books connected with the Anti-UN faction. Like I said, though, no big deal when he's a cameo character and Earth's governments are mainly there to get ganked by massed orbital bombardment. Rainbow Six also fits in well with the Anti-UN forces having favored terrorist style activity, and the book after that (forgot the title already) has John Clark (introduced in R6) as Ryan's most trusted eyes and ears on the level that goes out in the field, so you could use him instead if you want. Ryan is undoubtedly the one with more name recognition, though.

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http://www.howtoread.me/jack-ryan-reading-order/
http://jackryan.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Ryan,_Sr.
http://jackryan.wikia.com/wiki/John_Clark

The wiki pages are annoyingly devoid of dates, and I don't have access to any of hte novels to check on them directly.