Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy is the superstar of "technothriller" writers, not only in sales but in the loyalty of his fans, among whom presidents and vice presidents are numbered. To read a Clancy novel is to begin to know the writer himself and his alter ego, Jack Ryan. This, the first full-length critical study of his work, includes a biography, an exploration of the technothriller genre, and an in-depth anaysis of eight of Clancy's novels from alternative critical perspectives.