Tom Clancy Novels (Ryanverse)

A secret cabal of extreme nationalists gains control of Japan (having developed some nuclear weapons), and start a war with the U.S.

Arab terrorists find a nuclear weapon that had been lost by Israel, and use it to attack the United States. This nearly triggers a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

An elite counter-terrorist force is created and engages terrorists across Europe. Ecoterrorists plan to create a genetically-enhanced virus based on Ebola and cancer cells, which they plan to use to wipe out much of the world's population.

Russia is admitted to NATO; China and Russia fight a major war, in which the U.S. intervenes on its NATO ally's side.

Saddam Hussein is assassinated; Iran and Iraq merge forming the United Islamic Republic; the UIR launches a biological attack on the U.S. using the Ebola virus; the United States launches the Second Persian Gulf War against the UIR and defeats them; the Ayatollah is killed in a smart-bomb attack by the U.S.

Troops are sent into Colombia to fight against the Medina Cartel and reduce drug shipments to America.

Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales, along with their infant firstborn son, from an Irish terrorist group called Ulster Liberation Army (ULA) during a kidnapping attempt on the Mall.

The Central Intelligence Agency, and the British Secret Intelligence Service help with transporting a Russian defector and his family to the United States. The defector tells of a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II.

A CIA analyst leading a covert group of US Naval officers to steal a cutting-edge Soviet nuclear submarine from 26 defecting Soviet officers

John Kelly is enlisted by the military and CIA to plan and execute a rescue mission in Vietnam. Kelly also sets off on a personal mission of revenge against the gang that killed his girlfriend.

Ryan leads a CIA operation which forces the head of the KGB to defect.