Author Tom Clancy Dies [VIDEO]

Best-selling author Tom Clancy has died. He was 66.
FOX News Radio’s Jeff Monosso reports:

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He was an insurance salesman turned best-selling author whose military thrillers became big screen blockbusters.?
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From “The Hunt for Red October”:
(“The Hunt For Red October”) “What gives you the right to fire on my ship.”
To “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present Danger”, where the world got to know Clancy’s fictional character Jack Ryan.
(“Clear and Present Danger”) “We go to jail pal.//What is that? What do you think you have there?//You broke the law.”

Clancy’s publisher confirms the author died in Baltimore after a brief illness, just months before his latest novel called “Command Authority” is due out. Tom Clancy was 66.
Jeff Monosso, FOX News Radio.
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