This way, he knew any inaccuracies would be corrected before the book hit the shelves. Little-known details in The Hunt for Red October include that a Russian submarine spends only around 15 percent of its time at sea and the number of Seahawk missiles it carries.
He used only what was publicly available, but he put in the time to ensure this information was accurate and detailed. As a result of his efforts, Clancy quickly became one of the best-selling military novelists of his time. His comments went viral, even before the days of the internet. After that, the already moderately successful book began flying off the shelves. With his trademark style and eye for detail, Clancy brings you naval combat strategy like no one else can.
Read an Excerpt. Representing the very best from the Army and Air Force, the Airborne Task Force is an unstoppable combination of manpower and firepower.
And only Tom Clancy can tell their story—the fascinating real-life facts more compelling than any fiction. Fighter Wing. The 1 New York Times bestselling master of the military genre puts readers right in the cockpit. Here, the acclaimed author takes to the skies with the U. With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy captures the thrill of takeoff, the drama of the dogfight, and the relentless dangers our fighter pilots face every day of their lives- showing readers what it really means to be the best of the best.
Armored Cav. A penetrating look inside an armored cavalry regiment — the technology, the strategies, and the people. His first non-fiction book, Submarine, captured the reality of life aboard a nuclear warship. And how hard it is to return there. We are searching for Jack Ryan, searching for a " clear and present danger " to escape from the foreign civil wars, terrorist hydras and creepy intelligence scandals that define our global landscape.
We will miss Tom Clancy, his page-turning prose and the obsessive attention to detail that brought the texture of reality to his books. We have already been missing the political universe from which Clancy came and to which his books promised to transport us, a place never simple but still certain, where clear convictions made flawed Americans into heroes. Laura Kenna is a freelance writer and speaker on American culture. Follow her on Twitter LKenna2. To read more columns like this, go to the opinion front page or follow us on twitter USATopinion or Facebook.
Casper Weinberger, Reagan's Secretary of Defense, reviewed the book for The Times Literary Supplement, calling it "a splendid and riveting story" and praising the technical descriptions as "vast and accurate. All of Clancy's popular novels have resided on bestseller lists, and Clear and Present Danger sold more copies than any other novel published in the s, according to Louis Menand of The New Yorker.
Today Clancy continues to write successful novels. Although, according to an interview with Contemporary Authors in , Clancy claimed he did not create the "techno-thriller," his use of highly involved technical detail incorporated into complex, suspenseful plots made him the most successful practitioner of the genre and added a new level of military realism and sophistication to the traditional adventure novel. His books take their plots from the most pressing international concerns of his times.
Clancy takes his characters from various levels of military establishment insiders, from elite soldiers and crewman to commanders, generals, espionage operatives, and government officials. Their goals and motives are often clearly good or evil, and while later novels feature some ambivalence or introspection in lead characters, most of the moral choices characters face are straightforward questions of right and wrong.
In addition to using declassified documents and tours of vessels and bases, Clancy conducted interviews with personnel in order to draw his characters accurately.
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