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Old 06-06-2020, 04:34 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
The Tom Clancy guys weren't fooling anybody.
In fact, except for the first book or two (heavily rewritten by ghosts) Clancy worked more like Patterson. Openly selling his name was his way of doing away with even that much involvement.
Sorry. Can you clarify what you mean?

Tom Clancy didn't write the Tom Clancy's Op Center series, or Net Force or any of the novelizations of the Tom Clancy's video games. That is known and acknowledged.

But are you saying that he didn't write, say... the books published under his name from The Cardinal of the Kremlin onwards? If so, I don't buy it. From The Teeth of the Tiger forward, the 'co-author' is listed on the cover. Why would they do that if the books were already being ghost-written?

Same think for James Patterson. Why bother listing the co-author sometimes if all the books are ghost written anyway?

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