Tom Clancy
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In the early 1980s, the son of a mailman, best-selling fiction writer Tom Clancy, was writing insurance contracts in Maryland. It was a time when his only attempt at fiction, a science fiction book that detailed the maneuvers of a tiger outwitting a hunter, received only rejection letters in his mailbox. Flash ahead fifteen years and that mailbox is now full of royalty checks from a variety of enterprises, movie offers, proposals for new CD-ROM games based on his books, and letters concerning his efforts to buy an NFL franchise. Tom Clancy, now 52, has come a long way since his days of pounding the beat as an insurance salesman at 37. His seventeen books published since his midlife crisis include eleven bestsellers, putting him into the multi-million dollar writing conglomeration that includes authors like Michael Crighton, Stephen King, and John Grisham. Hollywood, never to miss out on a best selling novel’s in-built audience potential, has turned many of his movies like The Hunt For Read October and Patriot Games into major feature films. Other of his novels have been mass marketed and become best selling CD-ROM versions of his novels, like Rainbow Six and one based on his play Politika. While Clancy’s build-up-the-military, male chauvinist sentiments often bring critical reaction (except from conservative Republicans like Rush Limbaugh) from some, his work appeals to enormous numbers of readers around the globe,
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both as perceived by Jack Ryan, thrown into the melee when three American officials are assassinated in Colombia. Clancy’s ending of the prologue to the novel sounds like he could be describing his own midlife crisis instead of giving a description of the novel, “And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning-and, once decided, best unseen” (Clancy 21).
Jack Ryan is typically involved in something with much deeper roots than appear from the superficial appearance of his situation. In Executive Orders, wherein a terrorist attack on a join session of Congress finds Clancy’s hero suddenly President of the Unites States, shows Clancy’s ability to place his character in a situation which is over his head, one which in he must push his own capabilities and limits in order to survive. As the Vice President Jack Ryan asks when he has the opportunity thrust upon him, “I don’t know what to do. Where’s the manual, the tra
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Approximate Word count = 2966
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page)
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