History Creator / TomClancy

* MoscowCentre: A majority of Clancy's fictional works involve the KGB or its successors. Up to ''Literature/TheSumOfAllFears'', people of Moscow Centre were always cast as the antagonists, though infrequently as outright villains.

Formerly an insurance broker, Thomas "Tom" Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 -- October 1, 2013) was an American novelist specializing in techno-thrillers and military thrillers. His first and probably most famous novel is ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''.

Formerly an insurance broker, Thomas "Tom" Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 -- October 1, 2013) was an American novelist specializing in techno-thrillers. His first and probably most famous novel is ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''.

Formerly an insurance broker, Tom Clancy (April 12, 1947 -- October 1, 2013) was an American novelist specializing in techno-thrillers. His first and probably most famous novel is ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''.

-->-- US Navy Admiral's reaction to reading ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''

** Clancy's views of environmentalists in ''Literature/RainbowSix'' has all the subtlety of John Rambo or Jane Shepard trying out for the team: to cut a very long story short they not only have a burning hatred of the human race and desire to wipe them out but feverishly work towards the ability to do so, while pointing out their hypocrisy and double standard left right and center.

->"Who the hell cleared ''that?"''

* {{Zeerust}}: From TheHuntForRedOctober on, a big part of the appeal of Clancy's techno-thriller style has been the central placing of speculative military technology that was assumed to be "just around the corner." Silent, non-propeller submarine propulsion, [[KillSat "Star Wars" strategic defense satellite weapons]], Comanche helicopters, and "Dark Star" drones are all examples of showcased military projects on the drawing board or in development at the time books were written that never quite made it into being non-fictional, while others were abandoned or redesigned in real life.

* ShownTheirWork: He actually had Navy personnel visit him demanding answers about what was in ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'', as some detail about submarine operation that he included in ''Red October'', that he had pieced together himself, turned out to be not only correct but classified. The Soviet embassy in Washington reportedly made the novel required reading for its staff as well. Clancy explained the details were readily available in many library books on submarines. Not bad considering that Clancy was an insurance salesman with no prior military experience before becoming an author.

Formerly an insurance broker, Tom Clancy (April 12, 1947 -- October 1, 2013) was an American novelist specializing in techno-thrillers. His first and most famous novel is ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober''.

* The Literature/JackRyan series - Written by him.

* The ''NetForce'' series - Licensed use of his name.

** ''Literature/RainbowSix''

* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' (which came out of Literature/RainbowSix, the 9th book in the JackRyan series)

* ''SSN'', based on a submarine simulator VideoGame of the same name. Written by him.

!!Other Clancy novels have featured the following tropes:

!! Clancy novels with their own trope pages include:

* The Literature/JackRyan series.
* ''Literature/RedStormRising''.
* The ''NetForce'' series.

* ''Film/JackRyanShadowRecruit'' - Not based on any book by Clancy.

* ''Film/PatriotGames

Famous enough to be a brand name; the appellation "[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Tom Clancy's...]]" has been applied to a TV miniseries, several series of novels, and a number of VideoGames; all meet the author's demands for [[ShownTheirWork research]] and [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness technical realism]], but most ''were'' made without much involvement from the man himself, and will definitely have no involvement now that Creator/{{Ubisoft}} [[http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=11890 has acquired the intellectual property rights to Tom Clancy's name.]]

Famous enough to be a brand name; the appellation "[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Tom Clancy's...]]" has been applied to a TV miniseries, several series of novels, and a number of VideoGames; all meet the author's demands for [[ShownTheirWork research]] and [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness technical realism]], but most ''were'' made without much involvement from the man himself, and will definitely have no involvement now that [[http://www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=11890 Ubisoft has acquired the intellectual property rights to Tom Clancy's name.]]

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: ''The Hunt for Red October'' takes place in the year it was written, 1984. But by the time the film was being made in 1990, the Cold War was in the last stretch and Russia was no longer considered an enemy of the US. This required the filmmakers to set it back in 1984, contrasting with the trend of later adaptations to just update the year and socio-political backdrop. Literature/TheSumOfAllFears, which features the Soviet Union prominently, was released days after the August 1991 coup by Soviet hardliners, which was one of the major events leading up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union four months later.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: ''The Hunt for Red October'' takes place in the year it was written, 1984. But by the time the film was being made in 1990, the Cold War was in the last stretch and Russia was no longer considered an enemy of the US. This required the filmmakers to set it back in 1984, contrasting with the trend of later adaptations to just update the year and socio-political backdrop.

* {{Zeerust}}: From TheHuntForRedOctober on, a big part of the appeal of Clancy's techno-thriller style has been the central placing of speculative military technology that was assumed to be "just around the corner." Silent, non-propeller submarine propulsion, [[KillSat "Star Wars" strategic defense satellite weapons]], Comanche helicopters, and "Dark Star" drones are all examples of showcased military projects on the drawing board at the time books were written that never quite made it into being non-fictional, while others were abandoned or redesigned in real life.

* ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' (which came out of Literature/RainbowSix, the 9th book in the JackRyan series).