Best-Selling Author Tom Clancy Dies at 66
Best-selling US author Tom Clancy has died at the age of 66 in a Baltimore hospital near his Maryland home his publisher Penguin has confirmed.
Clancy wrote a string of best-selling spy and military thrillers. His 17th novel, Command Authority, is due out in December. Several of his books featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan have been adapted into successful Hollywood films.
Clancy, who died on Tuesday, was remembered as "a master of his craft" by Tom Weldon, chief executive of Penguin Random House UK.
"Tom Clancy changed readers' expectations of what a thriller could do," he said. "He will be greatly missed by millions of fans in the UK and around the world."
As well as a successful writer, Clancy also became closely associated with the world of video gaming.
In the 1990s he founded Red Storm Entertainment, later bought by Ubisoft, which developed games based on Clancy's ideas.
Blockbuster video game titles bearing his name included Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr, writer, born 12 April 1947; died 1 October 2013
Clancy wrote a string of best-selling spy and military thrillers. His 17th novel, Command Authority, is due out in December. Several of his books featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan have been adapted into successful Hollywood films.
Clancy, who died on Tuesday, was remembered as "a master of his craft" by Tom Weldon, chief executive of Penguin Random House UK.
"Tom Clancy changed readers' expectations of what a thriller could do," he said. "He will be greatly missed by millions of fans in the UK and around the world."
As well as a successful writer, Clancy also became closely associated with the world of video gaming.
Blockbuster video game titles bearing his name included Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr, writer, born 12 April 1947; died 1 October 2013
Best-Selling Author Tom Clancy Dies at 66
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