Providing inspiration for Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, the 1975 mutiny aboard the Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (translated Sentry) aimed at nothing less than the overthrow of Leonid Brezhnev ...

Several actors have played Jack Ryan over the years in Tom Clancy adaptations of varying quality. Here's how IMDb's users rate the different Ryan projects.

He was the author of more than two dozen military and spy novels, inlcuding “The Hunt for Red October ... an honor to know Tom Clancy and to work on his fantastic books.