The first season of the Amazon Original series breathes new life into Tom Clancy’s most famous character. Moving away from the Cold War roots of the novels, this iteration places Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) in a modern geopolitical landscape. Ryan begins as a low-level CIA financial analyst who discovers a string of suspicious bank transfers, leading him out from behind his desk and into the field to track a rising extremist leader named Mousa bin Suleiman. A Modern Adaptation