A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

(C) 1999 Berkley Books The late Tom Clancy is best remembered as the creator of the Jack Ryan series of novels that began with 1984's The Hunt for Red October and continues, to this day, via the works of his last co-authors, Grant Blackwood and Mark Greaney. Clancy, even in life, became a "name brand" which is used to market military-themed computer and video games ( Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy's EndWar, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell ) and book series ( Tom Clancy's OpCenter ) which consist of novels that were not written by Clancy himself.   Before his death at the age of 66 in October of 2013, Clancy was also a respected commentator on military affairs, Second Amendment rights, and politics. He was not shy about his conservative views; the Jack Ryan series often depicts liberal politicians (such as the hapless and unethical Edward Kealty, a thinly-disguised doppelganger for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts) as morally weak, idealistic-