Tom Clancy 's books have been given various labels--thrillers, suspense novels, science fiction--but the most accurate and frequently used designation is techno-thrillers. Even though Clancy insists he is not the creator of the genre, he is the writer mo...

Tom Clancy, in the course of two decades, has single-handedly created a new thriller genre, franchised his name into audio, movies, and computer games, and sold over a hundred million copies of his military and espionage thrillers worldwide. One of only...

Tom Clancy (born 1947) writes novels of adventure and espionage in the international military-industrial complex that have earned him enormous popularity in the 1980s as a creator of the "techno-thriller" genre. Tom Clancy was born in Baltimore, Maryland...

CABINETS AND THE BOMB by Peter Hennessy OUP for the British Academy, £19.95, pp. 356, ISBN 9780197264225 £15.95 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 This book shows how successive cabinets have handled the deadliest secret of modern times, what to do about nuclear...

New Hampshire has just closed the books on the deadliest year for drivers in 15 years, with fatalities increasing by about one-third despite a similar number of accidents and injuries as the year before, according to Earl Sweeney, assistant state commissioner of safety. ...