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Thomas L. Clancy, the so called master of techno-military thrillers, was born on the 12th of April 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland / USA. He was educated at the Loyola College in Baltimore. Then he worked as an insurance broker.
He is now living in his second marriage after his divorce in 1998. With his first wife he has four children.
In college he dreamed of writing novels. In 1984 this dream came true and he got his first novel published, namely "The Hunt for Red October", which was a great success.
Other also well-known works followed, e.g. "Red Storm Rising" (1986), "Cardinal of the Kremlin" (1988), "Debt of Honor" (1994), "Executive Orders"(1996), "Rainbow Six" (1998) and "The Red Rabbit" (2002). Almost each of his books has been a number one best-seller.
"Executive Orders" is part of the so called "Ryanverse collection" that means that in all of these books the main character is Jack Ryan or that the other characters have something to do with him.
Clancy has also worked with other authors, e.g. with Steve Pieczenik to create the mini-series "OP-Centre" in 1994.
All of his stories deal with military, warfare, intelligence, politics and terrorism.
Tom Clancy also wrote non-fiction books about submarines, cavalry, the US Air Force and about the Marine and Airborne corps of the US Army.
Four of his novels, namely "The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games", "Clear and present Danger" and "Sum of all Fears", have been made into quite successful movies.
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