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Prolific author and video game influencer Tom Clancy has died today, at the age of 66. You may recognize his name from the Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell games, or you might know his work through movie adaptations like Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, or The Hunt for Red October. Or maybe, you know, you read one of his 30 books.
To mark his untimely passing, dig deeper into the man's biography with 15 Things You Didn't Know About Tom Clancy.
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Despite writing about the military in practically all of his books, Clancy never served. He tried to enlist, but his poor eyesight kept him out.
President Reagan was a huge fan of Clancy, especially The Hunt for Red October.
[via Fox News]
Four of his novels were adapted into movies.
The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears have all been adapted into feature films. The first novel in the NetForce series was made into a TV movie, but Clancy only created that series—he didn't write any of the books.
In his 1994 novel Debt of Honor, a terrorist crashes a plane into the Capitol building. After the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, much was made of this, though there's no way of proving that his novel served as inspiration.
[via CNN]
Five of his novels were adapted into video games.
The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, SSN, The Sum of All Fears, and Rainbox Six have been turned into video games, some of them multiple times.
