

Kelly, who had by now changed his identity to Clark, first met Domingo "Ding" Chavez in the CIA during a black operation in Colombia ( Clear and Present Danger). They eventually had two daughters, Patricia Doris and Margaret Pamela. While recovering from his injuries at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he met his future second wife, nurse Sandra "Sandy" O'Toole.

She was later recaptured by members of the ring and subsequently tortured, raped, and killed Kelly was gravely wounded. Six months after his wife died, Kelly had a brief relationship with Pamela Madden, a former prostitute who had been forced into working as a courier for a drug ring. His first wife Patricia "Tish" was pregnant when she was killed in a car accident. He attended Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis.

John lost his mother to cancer when he was a young boy. His father, Timothy Kelly, served in the Navy during World War II and was a fireman who perished from a heart attack during a fire. John Kelly was born in Indianapolis to Irish-American parents somewhere in 1944-1945 and raised as a Catholic. ( November 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective. This section describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style. Clark has also appeared in the Rainbow Six series of video games. Jordan, the latter in a planned series including adaptations of Without Remorse and the in-development Rainbow Six. In film, Clark has been portrayed by Willem Dafoe, Liev Schreiber, and Michael B.

After retiring from CIA and Rainbow, Clark then worked for The Campus, an off-the-books intelligence organization created by President Ryan, later acquiring a position as director of operations. During Ryan's first term as President of the United States, Clark served as director of a multinational counterterrorism unit codenamed Rainbow, which is composed of elite soldiers from countries which are part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Although he first appeared in The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988), his origin story was detailed in Without Remorse (1993).Ĭlark has been described by his creator as "Ryan’s dark side" and "more inclined to take physical action than Jack is." A former Navy SEAL, he became an operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, and at one point served as Ryan's driver and bodyguard. He has been featured in many of his Ryanverse novels. Clark (real name John Terence Kelly) is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy.
