Tom Clancy dies at age 66

B.A._Baracus

Tom Clancy, the author of The Hunt For Red October, Splinter Cell, Patriot Games, The Sum Of All Fears and about a dozen more books and movies you've heard about has died age 66 after a brief illness.

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/author-tom-clancy-dies-aged-66-29629232.html

Really was a brilliant writer.

Frosty McSnowballs

...and that's the end of that chapter.

He brought us some good movies though.

Turtwig

RIP.

For Rainbow Six alone I'm eternally grateful.

ColeTrain

I thank him for Rainbow Six Vegas. Blasting terrorists in the face with a Scout Tactical should be his legacy.

Karl Stein

RIP.

Love 'The Hunt for Red October' film.

His books were a bit too much 'Americans goodies - Soviets baddies' for me though.

Fukuyama

Tango down.

Gatling

Amazing writer ,

Books
Movies
Games

Some even say he may have loosely inspired 9/11

Conmaicne Mara

RIP.

Red Storm Rising is one book I'd love to see made into a (good) film.

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Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

RIP.

Red Storm Rising is one book I'd love to see made into a (good) film.

Awwwwhh man!! Seconded! I read that in 6th class, and from there I was destined to join an army. When I was younger I wanted to write to him, to ask him to make me a character

Riddle101

Always enjoyed the films, Sum of all Fears and Hunt for Red October. Also like Rainbow Six games too.

Lad Of Banter

A TV Series of Rainbow Six would be immense. RIP big TC

Jogathon

My absolute favourite author, Frederick Forsyth a close second. Such a pity.

I was never a huge fan of his books and I don't think I've ever written, but I know how hugely acclaimed he was. RIP.

Captain Chaos

ColeTrain wrote: »

I thank him for Rainbow Six Vegas. Blasting terrorists in the face with a Scout Tactical should be his legacy.

Even though he had completely nothing to do with the Rainbow Six series since Rogue Spear in 1999 made by Red Storm studios. After that Ubisoft just used his name under licence agreement.

Duggy747

Rainbow Six games (the early ones) were brilliant, back playing them at the moment. Quite liked the Jack Ryan flicks too.

jester77

rainbow 6 was legendary

RIP

Muise...

Charlie Rock wrote: »

RIP.

Love 'The Hunt for Red October' film.

His books were a bit too much 'Americans goodies - Soviets baddies' for me though.

I think you mean Shcottish Shoviet baddiesh.

Doc Ruby

Awful young to be passing on these days.

MadsL

http://www.military.com/video/combat-vehicles/combat-tanks/the-military-funeral-tank-hearse/2101771868001/

Appropriate?

Stheno

RIP have read all of his books bar Debt of Honor, as I could never figure out what it was called.

Great writer

dimal

RIP. The Hunt For Red October was one of the best detectives I ever read.

Achievement Hunter from Rooterteeth posted this Lets Play earlier today. Talk about weird timing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm374yQLe10

_Kaiser_

Ah no.. I have all his Jack Ryan/John Clark books and was getting into the latest Jack Ryan Jr series which still feature a lot of the older characters.

Red Storm Rising as mentioned is one of the greats, as is Rainbow Six. Debt of Honour and the immediate follow-up Executive Orders are great too. Also loved the John Clark origin story in Without Remorse

Sad sad news.

bnt

Clancy did complete one more novel, Command Authority, which is due out in a few months time. The upcoming movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is due in December, featuring a young version of his most famous character.

mrsoundie

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

RIP.

Red Storm Rising is one book I'd love to see made into a (good) film.

Made into Three good films, to try and jam it in to one would be a travesty up there with Clear and Present Danger.

Conmaicne Mara

mrsoundie wrote: »

Made into Three good films, to try and jam it in to one would be a travesty up there with Clear and Present Danger.

Yeah could be done, though dragging it out could be as bad as condensing it.

MayoForSam

mrsoundie wrote: »

Made into Three good films, to try and jam it in to one would be a travesty up there with Clear and Present Danger.

Fantastic book about the Cold War becoming hot, TV mini-series might work but it would need a massive budget to do it justice.

Tom's ability to craft a well-structured military/covert ops tale will be missed.

Capt'n Midnight

It's a shame they trashed his name with some utter tripe written by others.

The genuine stuff is fairly good and more or less defined the military techno-thriller



'cept SSN: Strategies for Submarine Warfare was big time suspension of disbelief

Red Storm Rising is a classic , The Bear and the Dragon too.
Also look at Larry Bond's Vortex and Red Phoenix

Bipolar Joe

Fuck I love Splinter Cell. Sucks, man.

Itwasntme.

discus wrote: »

Awwwwhh man!! Seconded! I read that in 6th class, and from there I was destined to join an army. When I was younger I wanted to write to him, to ask him to make me a character

Adorable . I read and liked most of his books especially The Hunt for Red October. Weirdly, I was thinking about it just the other day - I can't remember why.

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Admit it, you were thinking of Harrison Ford. There's no shame!

I thought Clear and Present Danger was also so absorbing. I read the books in an odd order, so it was cool to see how Chavez and Clark ended up as buddies.

323

Sad to hear. RIP

Collected all in hardback over the years since first reading Red October, have always looked forward to his next release.

Always thought Without Remorse would have been great in film if adapted well. Apparently Paramount are still developing it.