enter the service was derailed because of his poor vision. His extreme myopia got him ejected from the ROTC and are the reason for his signature thick and tinted glasses. Clancy attended Jesuit-run schools in Baltimore and he was a member of the debate team. He was able to purchase his grandmother’s insurance company when he was 35, but the simple routine began to bore him not long thereafter. Since he was fascinated with military technology, he wrote an impressive article concerning the MX missile system that was published in a respected U.S. naval publication in the early 1980s. This inspired him to begin fabricating a military thriller about a Russian submarine and its crew wanting to defect to the U.S. He delivered the manuscript pounded out on an IBM Selectric typewriter to the U.S. Naval Institute Press in Maryland. The Institute “paid Clancy $5,000 and ran 14,000 copies of The Hunt For Read October. Pretty soon, President Ronald Reagan was calling the book ‘my kin
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