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'Hunt for Red October' author Tom Clancy was a master of realistic military thrillers
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With CIA analyst Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy created a character that spoke to audiences from both page and screen, representing the changing mood of a country facing growing geopolitical challenges.
• "Thrillers, like all art, are always a reflection of the culture," said fellow author Brad Meltzer. "No one captured that Cold War fear -- and that uniquely American perspective-- like Clancy. Jack Ryan wasn't just a character. He was us. He was every American in those days when we were a push-of-the-button away from nuclear war."
• Clancy brought such realism and attention to detail to his novels that in 1985, a year after the Cold War thriller "The Hunt for Red October" came out, a military official suspected the author of having access to classified material.
• The best-selling novelist, who died Tuesday in Baltimore at 66, insisted then, and after, that his information was strictly unclassified: books, interviews and papers that were easily obtained. Also, two submarine officers reviewed the final manuscript.
• Government officials may have worried how Clancy knew that a Russian submarine spent only about 15 percent of its time at sea or how many Seahawk missiles it carried. But his extreme attention to technical detail and accuracy earned him respect inside the intelligence community and beyond. It also helped make Clancy the most widely read and influential military novelist of his time, one who seemed to capture a shift in the country's mood away from the CIA misdeeds that were exposed in the 1970s to the heroic feats of Jack Ryan.
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On The Road Again: Cobb, Rays blank Indians 4-0 to earn playoff shot against Boston
• CLEVELAND (AP) -- As champagne bottles were being carried into Tampa Bay's boisterous celebration, equipment bags were hustled out of the clubhouse and loaded onto carts before being taken to the airport.
• Another airport. Another trip. Another city.
• The Rays aren't done traveling. Their October road show rolls on.
• Boston bound.
• Alex Cobb and three relievers combined to shut out Cleveland and silence a rau (Continued on page 33)
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