Thomas Leo Clancy was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1947. He graduated from Loyola University in Baltimore with a degree in English literature and then began working for an insurance company, writing for fun in his spare time. His debut novel, The Hunt for Red October was published in 1984 and Clancy’s career as a writer took off.
Over the next 29 years Clancy wrote more than 20 novels, including Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and Red Storm Rising. He also wrote 11 works of non-fiction, looking mostly at the USA’s armed forces. He died in 2013 at the age of 66.
So well known is Tom Clancy in the world of technically detailed science and military proceedings that video games carry his name solely for promotional purposes! If you love novels about techno thrillers and espionage then this quiz is likely to pose few problems for you.
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His full name was Thomas Leo Clancy, Junior
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He was educated privately at the Catholic Loyola Blakefield high school before he went to college
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Sean Connery played the submarine's commander in the 1990 film version
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Baldwin and Ford have played Ryan in other films
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As well as introducing the reader to Jack Ryan, Jr., the book is also the first place we see "the Campus," a highly secret intelligence agency
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Lord Holmes, played by James Fox, is the target in the 2002 film version
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There were originally 12 Op-Center novels written by Rovin between 1995 and 2005. There have, however, been more written by other writers since 2014
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The book's full title is Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit
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Like Op-Center, Net Force was created by Tom Clancy but written by another author - in this case Steve Perry
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A film, based on the book and involving both Harrison Ford and William Shatner, was rumoured to be in the pipeline, though it has never materialised
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