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Originally Posted by sufue
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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Thanks, that was interesting. In the hardcover edition Clancy did an "Authors Note" where he explains his relationship with Bond and gives him credit as co-author though it is never really explained why he is not on the title page. Though if he only wrote 1% as stated in the article you pointed out, that pretty much explains it.
