RIP Tom Clancy

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/author-tom-clancy-dead-66-article-1.1473782

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/us/tom-clancy-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

eh he couldn't have been smashed to death by a falling F-15 engine?

rainbow nixed

semi-surprising to me that I never read any of this dude's books; I think he just missed the transition where I read any and everything to where I focused almost exclusively on horror, science fiction and fantasy

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nwMtPn9utfI/UJudxXEDD-I/AAAAAAAAGAk/fKqn7izzJNE/s400/84_American_Eagle_crying.gif

i devoured a few of em in my teens and you could def see the market, aside from politics i mean (you could DEF see that market), well plotted well paced political thrillers that also listed the metrics behind every car, plane, gun and individual in them, i mean if this wasn't writing to formula then idk what would count

The guy was the most devoted propagandist for the military-industrial complex. I bet he rued the day the Cold War ended.

His novels were terrible. I read The Cardinal of the Kremlin in high school and couldn't tell you who was who except for the abbreviations and acronyms for weapons and shit.

otm

Good thing Ubisoft bought the rights to his name in perpetuity or something so he can continue celebrating the MIC in games forever

Years ago I took a class taught by the guy who had been the head of marketing at the Naval Institute Press when they published Hunt For Red October. Of course he told stories about marketing it; specifically how he managed to get a copy into Reagan's hands and to get Ronnie to say a juicy soundbite in its favor. I told this guy he ought to write a book about how he did all this.

When John Clark and Domingo "Ding" Chavez are forcibly retired from both the CIA and Rainbow, they join Jack Ryan, Jr. at "The Campus", a privately run intelligence organization carrying 100 blank Presidential Pardons (signed by Jack Ryan, Sr. before he left office) for any actions they may choose to take based on the information they collect. John and Ding take the responsibility to train Jack Jr. for field work while they try to crack a plot by a group of Islamic extremists to assemble and detonate a nuclear device in a nuclear waste storage facility in order to poison the water table for the western United States. Meanwhile, Jack Ryan, Sr. decides that he's had enough of the way his successor, President Ed Kealty, is running the country, and subsequently announce his candidacy for President of the United States.

i read rainbow six in middle school and all i remember is the terrorist sniper bad guy shooting a disabled kid in a wheelchair through the heart at an amusement park

he was a program that had to be discontinued due to govt. shutdown

A gamer's convention turns deadly when virtual reality monsters escape their confines—and start tracking down the Net Force Explorers!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Net_Force_Explorers

reading the wiki synopses of all of tom clancy's novels in order is a good way to spend an hour. i think debt of honor is my favorite, wikiwise.

the synopses are more coherent than his novels

a privately run intelligence organization carrying 100 blank Presidential Pardons

o_O

I know right. Like they're hall passes or something.

wait, didn't Vince Flynn just die too? Is someone knocking off political technothriller writers?

sorry, meant to post that to infowars

Thank God we still have Glenn Beck.

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/archive/storage/images/media/images/0929-blog1/10778009-1-eng-US/0929-blog1_full_380.jpg

i read red october in middle school and thought it was pretty cool and thrilling, but i don't think i understood what was supposed to be happening until i saw the movie later. it's funny, i didn't know he'd died, but for some ~spooky~ reason a detail from that book popped into my head this morning: the sonar guy who uses the multimillion dollar audio rig to play classical music and is indulged by the captain in this because he's a genius (courtney b vance, in the film, tho clancy makes no mention of race)

I just remember how everyone ran to their copies of Debt of Honor when Condi Rice pulled her "nobody imagined using airplanes as weapons" nonsense:

Throughout the book, President Durling faces another, less important political crisis: Vice-President Ed Kealty is forced to resign after being accused of drugging and raping a former member of his staff. With the crisis over, President Durling nominates Ryan as vice-president for his services during the crisis. However, an embittered Japan Air Lines pilot—driven mad by the deaths of his son and brother during the conflict—flies his Boeing 747 directly into the U.S. Capitol during a special joint session of Congress.

The president, as well as nearly the entire Congress, the Supreme Court, and many other members of the Federal Government are killed in the attack.

i got no problem with the movies cuz i will watch any spy movie (except for that last MI which i couldn't stomach for more than 20 minutes cuz it was so bad) but i can't imagine reading any of the books. has there ever been a great american spy novelist? think the brits got it locked up. and people like fleming, ambler, and le carre aren't even in the same hemisphere writing-wise as someone like clancy. (i have LOOKED at clancy books long enough to know i could never read one.)

oh wait alan furst. people dig him, right? and he's all literary and shit. i should probably read one of his.

Wow, 66. How has Rush outlived this guy? Oh, wait, Rush is only 62. Still time.

Tom Clancy carried a hell of a lot of water on behalf of the "intelligence community", making them all out to be superheroes. They should all chip in and donate a tactical nuke to a commando unit in his memory.

Blank presidential pardon to be presented to every funeral attendee.

Always associate him with Sideshow Bob complaining about the prison book club consisting of prisoners clubbing him with books to the point of bruising: "These are from the latest Tom Clancy. Though it's less painful than reading them, am I right?"

However, in the 2003 Tom Clancy novel The Teeth of the Tiger, Ed Kealty reappears as the US President, seemingly to have been elected after Robby Jackson's assassination, earning the nickname "The Comeback Kid". Because of Kealty's politically expedient stance, the novel maintains that is why Former President Jack Ryan secretly created "The Campus" – a secret independently funded agency outside of Government control, that can take security operations into its own hands.

I saw the Hunt for Red October-era movies, but goddamn I didn't realize that the novels had gone all-in on fascism.

what is the cause of death?

http://static.rogerebert.com/redactor_assets/pictures/far-flung-correspondents/should-jfk-have-even-been-made/JFK_sutherland.jpg

(x-post) Liberals tying the hands of intelligence services.

posted this on the obit page. fuck this rest in peace shit.

The political left, they deal in symbols rather than reality. The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across. And conservatives are indeed conservative because if the bridge falls down then people die, whereas the liberals figure, we can always build a nice memorial and make people forget it ever happened and was our fault. They're very good at making people forget it was their fault. Allright? The CIA was gutted by people on the political left who don't like Intelligence operations... and as a result of that, as an indirect result of that, we lost 5,000 citizens last week. (Sept. 21, 2001)

I don't think the cause of death has been released, nostormo.

But we can always create our own adventures http://tcpgen.tripod.com/

I was 12-14 when I wolfed these books down, in my military phase after Rambo, Top Gun, Red Dawn, etc. (I am a big man and I have a big gun etc.) now we have Call of Duty, who needs books anymore. just as well: I couldn't figure out what was going on in Red Storm Rising, woulda made better sense as a video game

rainbow six has these eco-terrorist scientist villain types and i swear one of is always listening to npr.

Rainbow Six Vegas is still my favorite shooter - it had the perfect balance between not having to creep everywhere at the slowest possible pace and Call of Duty linear run and gunning.

I loved Rogue Spear even tho it was buggy as fuck, especially the mod that let you play the missions as a terrorist.

g'bye asshole

read 'hunt for red october' when i was like 10 and thought 'russians are so awesome!' which i bet was not tom's intent.

hey, look who was a fan:

http://101books.net/2012/02/22/david-foster-wallaces-10-favorite-novels/

wow DFW had terrible taste

this is like learning that Glenn Frey loved young women and coke

maybe he was trolling

probably half-trolling and half-serious, according to this:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/02/02/david_foster_wallace_s_favorite_books_the_sum_of_all_fears_the_stand_and_red_dragon_.html

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131002104103-07-tom-clancy-horizontal-gallery.jpg

DFW was certainly no SNOOT

Red Dragon roolz though

DFW was college roommates with thriller writer Harlan Coben, and was supposedly jealous of his ability to devise a complete plot.

The Hunt for Dead October

@DennisThePerrin
Goodbye Tom Clancy. You were the Stephen King of imperialism.

is his twitter handle supposed to be some sort of gag on Dennis the Menace?

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-21/jack-ryan-becomes-the-aarps-latest-poster-boy

Finally, a movie for grownups!