Author Tom Clancey Dies

[Larro Darro]

I read Red Storm Rising when it first came out, just a couple of years after I got out of the Navy. It was late at night when I got to the part where the Russians used the missiles to mimic Backfire Bombers, luring the F-14's away from the flat tops. Then the real Backfires came in, causing havic. One moment the USS Saipan was steaming along beside the USS Nimitz, the next it had exploded and sank. Having spent over two years on that old tub, I had to put the book down for a few minutes, until the hollow feeling had passed. Knowing people on a lot of the ships involved in the book added to the realism.

He was a master at his craft. Like others here, I didn't care for the later books that were co-authored. They just didn't have the character development of his earlier novels.

 

[MossRoad]

I saw it on another satirical website as "The hunt for dead October."
Hope he had a sense of humor.

I've enjoyed the movies that they made based on his books. Too young for sure.

 

[Dr_Zinj]

Tom Clancy was the first man to predict the use of an airliner as a weapon and assassination tool.

Too bad nobody in the Federal government ever read or took him seriously.

 

[turnkey4099]

Tom Clancy was the first man to predict the use of an airliner as a weapon and assassination tool.

Too bad nobody in the Federal government ever read or took him seriously.

Yep. I often wonder if Bin Laden got his idea from that.

Harry K