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...

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...

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,...

Known for his potboiling thrillers with political, military, and espionage themes, author Tom Clancy's influence on American popular culture has been incalculable. Within the high-tech action adventure that has proved so beguiling to the movie...

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (born April 12 1947), better known as Tom Clancy, is a US author of bestselling political thrillers, best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War....

Tom Clancy reveals that he chose to make John Clark the hero of his latest book, 'Rainbow Six,' because he finds the character is fun to write about. He denies that he has used classified information in any of his books and maintains that...

Tom Clancy has remained on top of the bestsellers lists for nearly two decades. Clancy and John Grisham are the only two authors to have first-copy printings in the multimillions. An account of the author's success since his 1984 title 'The Hunt for Red...

The mysterious death of a once-powerful politician who was attempting a comeback goes to court this week with overtones of "CSI" forensics-laden plots and Tom Clancy spy thrillers."It's almost like television," said Steven Kosach, the Washoe County District Court judge who will preside over the...

The mysterious death of a once-powerful politician who was attempting a comeback goes to court this week with overtones of "CSI" forensics-laden plots and Tom Clancy spy thrillers."It's almost like television," said Steven Kosach, the Washoe County District Court judge who will preside over the...

In the following essay, Hixson examines the cultural significance of American jingoism and the glorification of advanced weaponry in The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, and The Cardinal of the Kremlin. According to Hixson, Clancy's novels "can be interpreted as popular representations of Reagan-era Cold War values."

In the following essay, Garson examines the combined elements of the conventional thriller, science fiction, detective fiction, and the techno-thriller in Clancy's novels.

In the following excerpt, Ryan explores the origins and defining characteristics of the techno-thriller genre as popularized by Clancy's best-selling novels. Though Clancy is widely regarded as "the wizard inventor of the techno-thriller." Ryan cites literary precedents in the work of Jules Verne.