Best-selling author Tom Clancy dies aged 66

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr, writer, born April 12, 1947; died Oct 1, 2013.

TOM Clancy, who has died aged 66, dominated the bestseller lists of the 1980s, with a series of novels that thrust his appealing CIA analyst Jack Ryan into situations that combined the intricacies of cold-war politics with precise details of modern military operations and equipment. With the end of the cold war, Clancy moved seamlessly into the era of terrorism, with no decline in sales; only JK Rowling and John Grisham joined him in meriting first printings of more than two million copies.