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“... part of three million copies in cloth and paperback. It is, in fact, the second huge success for Tom Clancy Jr, a 46-year-old former insurance broker from the Eastern Shore of Maryland whose only published work, prior to these successes, had been, as his publishers rather proudly insist, ‘a letter to the editor and a three-page article on the MX ...”

“... Tom Clancy, as his fans already know, has a new novel coming out in August. When he first revealed its gestation, at the beginning of 2001, he said its working title (or ‘codename’, as www.clancyfaq.com prefers) was ‘The Red Rabbit’, but this was likely to change as it was ‘too stylised’ – and perhaps too Updiked, though Clancy didn’t mention that ...”

“... The official euphemism for it sounds like the title of a Tom Clancy thriller, or a straight-to-video 1980s action movie starring Chuck Norris. The practice itself sounds like something that might go on, or be rumoured to go on, through the course of a novel by Don DeLillo. But there is no doubt that it does happen, despite the cagey denials and qualifications of the British and American governments ...”

“... Vietnam, and its miscalculations’. Noyce – an Australian, whose Hollywood movies include the Tom Clancy adaptations Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger – wanted to make the film because, he says, rereading the novel a few years ago after meeting US Military Intelligence officers who’d been in Vietnam in 1945, he thought: ‘Wow, this ...”

“... that shows respect for the law. If he’s carrying a book, it should be a thriller – preferably Tom Clancy. You want ‘realistic, plain simple ordinary people’, ‘not the town idiot’, but not smart: ‘smart people will analyse the hell out of your case’; ‘they hold you up to a higher standard … they take those words “reasonable ...”

“... Cold War time-warp. There’s a dorm-room poster of F-16s in flight in the ‘changing room’; a Tom Clancy novel decorates the duty officer’s quarters. The wire coathangers are standard-issue but the gas masks lying on the bedside table in the principal bedroom are clothed in tartan fabric. Come the apocalypse, or the global financial meltdown, this ...”

“... of almost as many films as Billy the Kid and inspired nearly as many books. Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy have both written novels about him; my biography of him appeared in 1976. I was asked by Coutant-Peyre to give him a signed copy. I’d brought an old paperback with me and wrote in it: ‘For Carlos. So many questions I would like to ask ...”

“... Tom Wolfe is, in many ways, an outrageous figure – with his white suit and cane, his glib social analyses, and his delusions of grandeur. For three decades he has been saying that his minutely researched books herald ‘a revolution’ in literature, which is bound to ‘sweep the arts in America, making many prestigious artists … appear effete and irrelevant ...”

“... culture are suffused with the language of militarism. Take Bacevich on the popular novelist Tom Clancy: In any Clancy novel, the international order is a dangerous and threatening place, awash with heavily armed and implacably determined enemies who threaten the United States. That Americans have managed to ...”

“... at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, a place usually reserved for Michael Crichton or Tom Clancy. The book’s success is a categorial surprise, since literary novels hardly ever reach a mass audience in America; but its subject-matter is so perfectly resonant with the tenor of the times that its appeal is transparent. The book concerns a ...”

“... services of even these jackals on the grounds that they are insufficiently predatory. Last summer, Tom Clancy fired the agent who had represented him for 15 years and hired a ‘business manager’, Michael Ovitz, who, he hoped, would market his technothrillers more lucratively in Hollywood. Most of what has happened to the book business since 1960 ...”

“... enough to care about the missed notes. So it bothers me that a character is described as enjoying Tom Clancy novels during a scene set a dozen years or more before the publication of The Hunt for Red October. It bothers me, too, that the reverb from his characters’ thoughts often screeches through Alexie’s omniscient narration, in a way that can make ...”

“... a striped Tesco carrier bag. He calls it ‘bollocks boring’ and demands something ‘like what Tom Clancy writes’, something ‘what people will read’. He is scornful of the barrage of academic quotations, footnotes and background research. What is reproduced here of his criticism sounds right to me and in the one or two places where Masters ...”

“... way for a surprise stealth bombing raid on Baghdad. Milner tells this story with all the skill of Tom Clancy, and quotes with apparent approval the officers who have sung the technology’s praises. General Chuck Horner, who ran the air campaign in the Gulf, was a fighter pilot in Vietnam. He said in his memoir (written with ...”

“... worker recently calculated the voter mileage in awarding the mesmerising techno-thriller author Tom Clancy a grant from the National Endowment in this election year. The White House conception of the ideal American writer to advertise at home and abroad would certainly not be Miller. Irony and sex don’t sell in politics, which is why Miller is banned ...”