‘Hunt for Red October’ author Tom Clancy dies at age 66
Celebrated author Tom Clancy, who became famous for best-sellers like “Hunt for Red October” and “Patriot Games,” died on Tuesday night. He was 66.
Clancy died after a brief illness at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Baltimore Sun reports.
I am a fan. I guess I started with Red Storm Rising, about a war between my old nemesis, the Soviet Union, and NATO.
tom was prescient in so many ways. Red Storm Rising opened with an attack a a major Soviet oil refinery by (here’s the prescient part) radical Muslims.
Tom was a great story-teller. After RSR, I read everything he wrote.
Prescient. In Debt of Honor the closing scene had a pilot crashing a Boeing 747 into the Capitol Building. This was years before 9/11.
Many people will doubtless say that Tom wrote ‘pop fiction’. I look at him as a great storyteller and am saddened that I won’t be looking in the mailbox for the next one of his new stories.
I read his earlier books. I was a corpsman and eventually got around to getting my surface warfare qualification. General knowledge about the weapons systems we had to learn were covered in his books so the qualification was a review. I will miss him. Might be time to go back and read my favorites.
He has one more book coming out in December. One last treat.
First Vince Flynn now Clancy
Great story teller, think I’ve read all his books, he will be missed.
I don’t keep many books after I read them (I would run out of space to walk) but I kept all of his. They sit right next to P J Orourke’s.
Always kinda wondered if the 9-11 terrorists read Clancy. The merging of fiction and history. Like the James Bond movie “Thunderball” where an H bomb is hijacked. Not long after the movie came out, we lose one in a plane crash at sea…
Weirdnesses everywhere. Or maybe I’m finally losing it completely.