Christian Orr
Christian Orr asked Mark Greaney:

Mark, Could you please kill off the Ed Kealty character already? After all, it's pretty obvious that he's a thinly-veiled fictitious version of Ted Kennedy, who croaked several years ago. Thanks for your consideration!

Mark Greaney After 7 Tom Clancy novels in 6 years, it was time to let others pick up the mantle. Mike Madden has a jack Jr. book coming out this month, and Marc Cameron has a Jack Sr book coming out at Christmas.

Kealty hasn't been involved in the books since Locked On, so bringing him back after 7 novels, reintroducing him, would take a lot of work for arguably little gain. Not saying one of the new guys might not take it on.

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