A novel battle over books

In the novels of Tom Clancy, heroic American intelligence officer Jack Ryan saves the world from catastrophe several times over before eventually becoming president of the United States and averting a nuclear strike on Washington.

But today in Annapolis, Jack Ryan is a corporate entity that Clancy will try to wrest from the custody of his former wife as the state’s highest court hears oral arguments in a bitter post-marital squabble with more echoes of The War of the Roses than The Hunt for Red October.