R.I.P. Tom Clancy (1947 – 2013)

Tom Clancy, author of some of the film world’s best known political espionage thrillers, passed away last night at the age of 66 in his hometown of Baltimore, MD. Like Robert Ludlum and John Grisham, Clancy was one of those hugely prolific authors whose work came to infiltrate and influence an entire decade of movies. Starting in 1990 with John McTiernan’s The Hunt for…