Success has brought personal gain as well as personal cost he has a fine house overlooking Chesapeake Bay, but he's been swindled in a stock scam. He's been debriefed by Pentagon officials and is required reading in military colleges. Despite the rumors, he isn't a retired spy he's simply a diligent researcher. Sales climbed when the Navy and other intelligence sources expressed consternation at Clancy's technical accuracy.
After President Ronald Reagan read it and pronounced it "the perfect yarn," the book shot up the New York Times bestseller list. It was the first work of fiction for both, and only about 14,000 copies were printed. The Hunt for Red October was eventually published by an obscure military press. In the early 1980s, Clancy read about the captain of a Soviet frigate attempting to defect to Sweden, and the seed of a novel was planted. An avid gun collector, he eventually moved on to the study of more high-tech weaponry. In Clancy's case, his hobby of warfare became the inspiration for that novel the technology of warfare, in particular, interested him.
Like so many English majors, he dreamed of writing a novel. He graduated from Loyola College with a major in English before settling into life as an insurance broker. was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1947.
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He has also created a successful fiction series (Op-Center) and written several nonfiction works on military topics. The Bear and the Dragon to be released later this month, is the 11th novel from this prolific author.
Looking back on it, Tom Clancy's success seems as improbable as the fate of the protagonists in his many best-selling novels.
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