R.I.P Tom Clancy

[88m3]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/b...st-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?_r=0

Crushed, one of the most creative writers of our time who spawned multiple classic films and video games.


I grew up playing the og Rainbow Six games, thank you .

 

[Ice Cold]

Dang RIP
I never read any of his books but i enjoyed Patriot games and his videogames (splinter cell, ghost recon, Rainbow 6)

 

[ThePsydeFX]

RIP. Just watched Clear and Present Danger as well as The Sum of All Fears back-to-back not to long ago. Should check if Patriot Games and Red October are up on Netflix.

 

[Smooth3d]

RIP

 

[Big Boss]

R.I.P.

 

[blockburna420]

RIP R we ever going to get that R6 : Patriots

 

[Sad Bunny]

RIP.

Loved the first two Pres Ryan books where the Japs kill all of Congress and the President, and then the second where Iran gets curb stomped. Not a fan of the later ghost written stuff, but his earlier books are all classics.

what are his best books?


Splinter Cell was the GOAT

 

[BonafideDefacto]

The GOAT military Writer
Ive enjoyed many of his books
Looking forward to that Jack Ryan movie that's coming out soon. ​

 

[MikelArteta]

The hunt for red October

 

[Just like bruddas]

RIP to the GOAT

 

[FloorGeneral]

Man, this is a bummer. First Vince Flynn, now Tom Clancy. Two of my favorite authors passed this year. Clancy was very high up on the list.

Many will praise the video games (rightly so), but for me, the books >> the video games. Now I'm gonna have to go back and re-live Jack Ryan's exploits for the umpteenth time.

R.I.P Mr. Clancy

 

[Spidey Man]

what are his best books?


Splinter Cell was the GOAT

Red October is probably the best. I'm also very partial to Executive Orders and Debt of Honor (which will never, ever, ever be made into a movie in my lifetime.)

[Spoilers]Debt of Honor is about an American/Japanese war which is pretty well written, and ends with another Japanese defeat. Jack Ryan at the end of the novel is made VP of the US, and right after that, a Japanese airline pilot crashes a plane into the Capital killing the President, Congress, and the Joint Chiefs of staff making Ryan president. Executive Orders follows up on that, and has the aftermath, and a ground war against Iran which conquered Iraq and launched a chemical attack on the US.

President Ryan launches a cruise missile at the Iranian President's house on live TV to end the war and warn everybody what happens when you piss off Merica. [/spoilers]

I enjoy those two greatly and they are very well written, but those start Clancy on his political soapbox where he gets extreme with his views. His later books are also pretty much ghost written and sprinkled with extreme political views.

The start of Pres Ryan is like a moderate republican. Later on in his books, it turns into Tea Party/Fox news republicans.

 

[daze23]

RIP

The Division has his name on it, right?

 

[Bboystyle]

damn. I remember playing Rainbow Six back on the MSN servers in 2003. fukking game was fun as hell. My first FPS game....RIP

 

[Just like bruddas]

Man, this is a bummer. First Vince Flynn, now Tom Clancy. Two of my favorite authors passed this year. Clancy was very high up on the list.

Many will praise the video games (rightly so), but for me, the books >> the video games. Now I'm gonna have to go back and re-live Jack Ryan's exploits for the umpteenth time.

R.I.P Mr. Clancy

heard it was a movie coming out for jack ryan