Author Tom Clancy dies at age 66

[pwaldo]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...es-age-66.html

Bestselling author Tom Clancy has died at the age of 66 in his birth town of Baltimore, Maryland.

Clancy wrote espionage and military thrillers including 'The Hunt for Red October,' 'Patriot Games,' 'Clear and Present Danger' and 'The Sum of All Fears.'

Those four books were all turned into successful blockbuster films starring actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. Another film based on his desk-jockey CIA hero, 'Jack Ryan,' is set for release later this year, while his next book, 'Command Authority,' is set to be published on December 3.

The cause of his death is not yet known. The Baltimore Sun reported that Clancy died Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a 'brief illness.' The New York Times first reported news of Clancy's death.

Seventeen of his novels ranked No. 1 on the New York Times best-sellers list, including his most recent, 'Threat Vector,' which was released in December 2012.

He first arrived on best-seller lists in 1984 with 'The Hunt for Red October.' He sold the manuscript to the first publisher he tried, the Naval Institute Press, which had never bought original fiction.

Clancy had said his dream had been simply to publish a book, hopefully a good one, so that he would be in the Library of Congress catalog.

[centrehice]

66 is far too young to leave this space.

Happy Trails to a good author.

[bbluebanshee]

He was a great author...may he rest in peace