In Clancy’s world, the FBI, DOJ, CIA, and especially military were mostly positive. His hero Jack Ryan was former CIA. Clancy must have been privy to something that would have destroyed that world view, or they wouldn’t have needed to take him out.

The novels that have come out by authors using his characters have been interesting as they’ve covered crypto currencies, steganography, and others monitoring you through your computer as topics, but I stopped reading them a few years ago.