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Do you think there will ever be a movie that features a line such as “You graduated at the top of your class in liberal arts, we need your help”?

08.06.2025 04:03

Do you think there will ever be a movie that features a line such as “You graduated at the top of your class in liberal arts, we need your help”?

Meet Jack Ryan

In “Shadow Recruit” while working under the cover of an investment bank, he finds and spoils a plot to disrupt a terrorist attack staged by a Russian oligarch designed to crash the U.S. economy when he simultaneously dumps U.S. dollars onto financial markets.

After being badly injured in a helicopter crash while a cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy, he eventually turns to academia and gets his Ph.D. in history and goes back to the Naval Academy to teach. He’s later recruited into the CIA where he becomes an analyst specializing in preparing biographies of high ranking Soviet military and civilian leaders.

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In “The Sum of All Fears”, Ryan, who is intimately familiar with the personality of the new Russian leader, correctly surmises that he’s not completely in control of his military which have, in conjunction with Neo-Nazis, hijacked a nuclear bomb and a Russian aircraft carrier to launch pre-emptive strikes. He convinces the Soviet leader to stand down his forces in the face of an American counter-attack.

Similarly, public relations firm owner Martin McCabe finished with a first in philosophy at Cambridge. After retiring from the British Broadcasting Authority, he becomes the brains behind the public relations firm Prentiss/McCabe, constantly saving the New Labour government from their own excesses and mistakes.

In “The Hunt for Red October”, he correctly surmises the Soviet-Lithuanian submarine captain is defecting to the United States and is not, as the Soviets claim, trying to unilaterally start World War III.

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And the feats of Sherlock Holmes, one of the world’s leading authorities on tobacco ashes, are too numerous to mention.