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Good author, Democrat voter, I will miss his books but not his voting.
“Several of his books have been made into movies.”
From the look of that list, ALL of his books have been made into movies. And notwithstanding Ben Affleck and Alec Baldwin, pretty good ones.
Sorry to hear about Tom Clancy’s passing. He’s been one of my favorite authors. Condolences to his family.
Red most of them. “Red Storm Rising” and Cardinal of the Kremlin” were the best.
Pretty much stopped reading after “Rainbow 6” because it was entirely predictable, but I did love the ending.
I couldn’t get through the first page of one of his books. Me and Christopher Buckley.
Ascension
And if I go,
while you’re still here...
Know that I live on,
vibrating to a different measure
—behind a thin veil you cannot see through.
You will not see me,
so you must have faith.
I wait for the time when we can soar together again,
—both aware of each other.
Until then, live your life to its fullest.
And when you need me,
Just whisper my name in your heart,
...I will be there.
- Colleen Corah Hitchcock
Tom Clancy, from the dedication page of ‘Executive Orders’:
“In the orginal hardcover edition of ‘Without Remorse’ are the words of a poem which I found by accident and whose title and author I was unable to identify. I found in them the perfect remembrance for my ‘little buddy,’ Kyle Haydock, who succumbed to cancer at the age of eight years and twenty-six days - to me he will never really be gone. Later I learned that the title of this poem is ‘Ascension,’ and that the author who penned these magnificent words is Colleen Hitchcock, a poet of rare talent living in Minnesota. I wish to take this opportunity to commend her work to all students of the lyric phrase. As her words caught and excited my attention, I hope they will have the same effect of others.”
I once had a very in-depth conversation with Mr. Clancy, on a very late and stormy night in the airport. It was very insightful. (and I leaned we both played “Harpoon”.)
My favorite book was “Red Storm Rising”, based loosely on General Sir John Hackett’s (Former NATO Northern Army Group Commander) novel, “The Third World War”, itself based on NATO’s War Plan for Europe.
Later Harold Coyle wrote “Team Yankee”, about a single unit within the larger scheme of Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising”.
Some wonderful comments and anecdotes here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/tom-clancy-best-selling-novelist-of-military-thrillers-dies-at-66.html?_r=1&;
Didn’t Vince Flynn (author of Mitch Rapp books) just die, too, and at a relatively young age? Breitbart, Flynn, Clancy....is the left assassinating all the public figures loved by Conservatives?