Tom Clancy Dies At Age 66

RIP author Tom Clancy. The ‘Hunt for Red October’ author died Tuesday in a hospital in Baltimore at age 66, according to his publisher G.P. Putnam’s Sons. No cause of death has been announced.

Tom Clancy’s next book, “Command Authority,” is planned for publication on Dec. 3.

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Clancy’s fiction works, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears, have been turned into commercially successful films with actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck as Clancy’s most famous fictional character Jack Ryan, while his second most famous character John Clark has been played by actors Willem Dafoe and Liev Schreiber. All but two of Clancy’s solely written novels feature Jack Ryan or John Clark.

Seventeen of his novels were No. 1 New York Times best sellers, including his most recent, “Threat Vector,” which was released in December 2012.