Robby Jackson (Tom Clancy)
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Robert (Robby) Jefferson Jackson, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.) is a fictional character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels. He met Jack Ryan while both were teaching at the United States Naval Academy (he was recovering from an injury that had him grounded), and the two became good friends. In the novel Patriot Games Robby helps Ryan eliminate the rogue Irish Republican Army terrorists that attack Jack's house. He next appears in The Hunt for Red October as an F-14 Tomcat pilot with VF-154 "The Black Knights" aboard the USS John F. Kennedy. During this, a Yak-38 Forger from the Kiev sends an AA-2 Atoll missile up Jackson's tailpipe, severely wounding his RIO. However Jackson makes it back all right. From then on, he is in almost every single Jack Ryan novel. In Clear and Present Danger, he is serving a stint in The Pentagon. In The Sum of All Fears, he is the CAG aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. In Debt of Honor, he is a rear admiral in command of the carrier USS John C. Stennis and its battle group. In Executive Orders, he is the J-3, or Operations officer, for the Joint Chiefs. In the novel The Bear and the Dragon Jackson is named Ryan's Vice President. He later succeeded Ryan as President, but was assassinated by a Ku Klux Klan member.
In the film Patriot Games he is portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson.
