Red Storm Rising is far and away my favorite among Clancy's books, although I also really like
Hunt for Red October and a few of the other early Jack Ryan books. (Clancy's later books got too political for me, and his politics and mine don't mix...) But I can re-read
Rising every few years and it never gets old.
I remember reading somewhere that Bond and Clancy basically war-gamed WWIII out, and then Clancy wrote it. So I went to look at
Wikipedia, and that's essentially what it says there. Bond pretty much brought the war-gaming background, and there's even a quote from him saying that he actually only wrote a tiny bit of
Rising. Still, I agree that having had the co-authorship at first, it's a shame he seems to get dropped these days.
If you haven't seen it before, you might enjoy this interview with Bond shortly after Clancy's death, linked from the Wikipedia page:
https://news.usni.org/2013/10/08/int...ond-tom-clancy
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Originally Posted by tch65721
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QEAQQC
One of Clancy's best. This is a "what if" where Russia invades the west during the cold war. Larry Bond was coauthor though he never seems to get credit... not sure why. |