Author Tom Clancy dies aged 66

Best-selling thriller author Tom Clancy has died in the US aged 66.

Wed, 02 Oct, 2013 - 17:00

Best-selling thriller author Tom Clancy has died in the US aged 66.

His publishers Penguin Group said that Clancy, writer of “The Hunt for Red October” and other wildly successful technological thrillers, died yesterday in Baltimore.

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