Those
who don't know the author Tom Clancy, might have seen, without realizing it, 3
movies adapted from his books ('The hunt for Red October' with Alec Baldwin and
Sean Connery; 'Patriot Games' and 'Clear and Present Danger' with Harrison
Ford).Profile
Those
who don't know the author Tom Clancy, might have seen, without realizing it, 3
movies adapted from his books ('The hunt for Red October' with Alec Baldwin and
Sean Connery; 'Patriot Games' and 'Clear and Present Danger' with Harrison
Ford).
Born in April, 12th 1947, Thomas L. Clancy Jr was an insurance broker in Maryland, passionately fond of naval history; but, in 1984, everything changes: his first book is published, The Hunt for Red October; a Russian submarine captain who defects to the United States with his submarine, a story drawn from the fruitless defection attempt of the Soviet frigate Storojevoï in 1975, mutinery led by the political officer, Lieutenant Commander Sablin. The book becomes quickly a best-seller, recommended by the President Ronald Reagan.
This novel also pushes Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy's main character forward, that we'll meet in almost all the books afterwards.An engaging character, Ryan is a former stock broker and a CIA analyst.
The second novel, Red Storm Rising, was written closely with Larry Bond and describes a conventional war between NATO and the Soviet Army in Germany; the book captivates the reader from start to finish.
Clancy started the techno-thriller genre and he excels in using fictitious but likely stories in his novels.
The following books confirms that: Patriot Games throws the reader in the terrorism world; The Cardinal of the Kremlin deals with espionage and the Initiative Defense Strategy project; Clear and Present Danger handles the war against the drug barons in Colombia; The Sum of All Fears covers the new threats in the Middle East in the post-cold war world; Without Remorse takes place during the Vietnam war with the American POWs in North-Vietnam; Debt of Honor deals with the relations between the Unites States and Japan; lastly Executive Orders gives the reader an idea of the office of the President of the United States. Rainbow Six is scheduled for August 3, 1998.
On top of this, there are the nonfiction books to be added, covering the United States armed forces. The first book, 'Submarine', takes the reader on a detailed tour inside the British and American submarines; 'Armoured Warfare' takes a look at an armoured cavalry regiment; 'Fighter Wing' at a US Air Force combat wing and 'Marine' and now 'Airborne'.
Tom Clancy has been working with Steve Pieczenik on Op-Center, first as a TV-series and then as novels. Finally, Tom Clancy is also interested in computer games: his first game, SSN, puts the player in command of an American nuclear submarine. Since he has co-founded Red Storm Entertainment, a computer game company. Politika was RSE's first game and now, shortly after the book, Rainbow Six - the game - will be released.