Tom Clancy

Born in 1947

• Baltimore,Maryland.
  

Clancy was working as an insurance broker until he wrote his first novel in 1984, the Hunt for Red October.The book made the New York Times best seller of president Ronald Reagan. His crafting of plausible military scenaries is so realistic that he has become a favorite of the United States military.Tom has dined with presidents, generals generarly gave him access to ships, subarines and aircraft.Today some of Clancy's books are considerd as requierd reading at U.S. military academies.

• In 1996 Clancy founded Red Storm Entertainment to create and market multimedia computer games based on his stories. Its first game Politika was released in November 1997.


• Ten of Clancy’s books have earned No. 1 rankings on the New York Times best seller list. Nearly fifty million copies of his books have been printed and three have been made into movies.
• His best works was the novels The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games ect.
• More of his best work was put in to computer games based on his books,i thought that was prettt cool '']

Tom Clancy is important for his potboiling thrillers with political, military, and espionage themes, author Tom Clancy's influence on American popular culture.