I wonder about the things he didn’t put in the books, or the things he put in that nobody noticed.
Like: in one book, Jack Ryan meets an agent who was removed from field service due to injuries, and he is embarrassed to talk about it.
In Sum of All Fears the soviet sub commander mentions having tackled a purse snatcher while on temporary assignment in Washington DC and having his superior officer freak out over the possibility that the guy who got tackled was a “spy”..who had both knees shattered.