Rest in Peace, Tom Clancy October 2, 2013

It is my unfortunate duty to inform all of you that writer Tom Clancy has died at the age of 66.  While I’m sure many of you remember him for penning the books that would become blockbuster movies like The Hunt for Red October or Patriot Games, his work has also inspired many of the most popular video game series of all time including Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell.  He has been heavily inspired by the trials and tribulations of our day, starting with penning books inspired by the events of the Cold War and moving in the more recent years to books that have talked about cyberwarfare and international counterterrorism.

After Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six made a huge impact in the PC market, I decided to give his original book Rainbow Six a read during my sophomore year of High School, and I have to say I loved every word.  What an ending!  After reading Without Remorse that summer, I decided to read every single one of his Jack Ryan books, and I spent most of my free time in High School and my first year of College reading every single one of his fiction novels,  It was so cool that he chose to include a small follow up to Rainbow Six by including the characters from Team Rainbow in The Bear and the Dragon.  His final Jack Ryan novel, The Teeth of the Tiger, was something I read every break I had from working the summer it was released.

Today, his name still lives on in entirely new game properties coming out from Ubisoft, like Tom Clancy’s The Agency, which was announced at this year’s E3.  Rest in Peace good sir.