Tom Clancy dies at 66
66-year-old Bestselling author, Tom Clancy, died in Baltimore, USA, on Tuesday. The cause of his death is still unannounced.
Clancy,whose books were frequently adapted into movies, wrote often about war and raised a multi-million dollar industry of books,film and video games.
Thrillers like The Hunt for the Red October, his first novel, and the Sum of All Fears were converted into blockbuster films starring Sean Connery and Ben Affleck, respectively, and also served loosely as plots for video games by the same names.
The former insurance broker became a prolific writer through three decades, with his next book, Command Authority, scheduled for publication on December 3, 2013.
“I don’t recommend writing as a form of employment, because it’s such miserable work. That is how you tell a rookie: if they actually think that writing is fun. I guess it is for the first one or two, but after that it just becomes miserable work, like digging in the dirt with a shovel. But it’s something you have to do. You cannot do it,” Clancy once said in an interview with a popular American news magazine.