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Thomas Leo Clancy Jr., dit Tom Clancy, né à Baltimore dans le Maryland le 12 avril 1947 et mort le 1er octobre 2013 dans la même ville, est un romancier américain.

Ses romans d'espionnage, du genre techno-thriller ou thriller politique, sont technologiquement très documentés, et tournent autour du milieu du renseignement américain, plus précisément la CIA sur fond de guerre froide ou de terrorisme.

Il a connu un regain de popularité après les attentats du 11 septembre 2001, non seulement pour sa description préalable, très vraisemblable, d'un attentat terroriste réalisé grâce au crash d'un avion sur un bâtiment , dans Dette d'honneur et Sur ordre , mais également grâce au scénario du jeu Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon sorti en 2001, où il prévoit un affrontement armé de la Géorgie, aidée par les États-Unis, contre la Russie en 2008.



✵ 12. avril 1947 – 1. octobre 2013
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Tom Clancy: Citations en anglais

“There's nothing that's ever happened in the world that didn't start in one human mind.”

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2000s, In Depth with Tom Clancy (2002)

“Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one — or take equivalent action, I suppose.”

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Tom Clancy livre Red Rabbit

Red Rabbit (2002)
2000s

“I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.”

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The New York Times (27 July 1986)
1980s

“The Soviet Union is dead and gone and replaced by the Russian Federation, which is a country we can be friends with now, thank God — and we want the Russians to prosper, and should help the Russians prosper in every way we can within reason.”

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2000s, Larry King Live (2000)

“That's the ultimate pornography… There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.”

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1990s, CNN interview (1999)
Variante: There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

“The odds against becoming the next Frederick Forsythe are, of course, somewhere between merely exponential and astronomical-incredible. I’ll settle for a book-jacket with my name on it.”

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Personal correspondence, 5 February 1983. Published in "Becoming Tom Clancy: Letters from Tom -- Part 1," Pied Type (Oct 2, 2013) http://piedtype.com/2013/10/02/tom-clancy-boy-writer-part-1/
1980s

“Fifteen years ago, there was this country called the Soviet Union that had over 10,000 nuclear warheads pointed at us… they're not there anymore. That's a good thing. And when people talk about how the world is more dangerous now than it was because we had these terrorists running around, my reply is, you know, a terrorist is like a buzzing mosquito. About 15 years ago, there was a great, big vampire bat; that's several orders of magnitude different from a mosquito. So the world is much safer — a lot safer than it was. It's not perfectly safe, but it's a heck of a lot safer than it was.”

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2000s, Larry King Live (2000)

“I like writing. It's the most fun I've ever had at anything. You can build your own little world and — like a kid with his toy trains, — except instead of trains I have tanks and ships and airplanes and things… I get to make them do all the things I want them to do, and if I don't like the way things work out, I start again.”

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Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
1980s

“There are things I know I know about I don't write about, which I could not responsibly put into my books. Interestingly enough, though, the scariest one of those things is not classified at all. But nevertheless, I don't write about it, because it would make the world a somewhat more dangerous place.”

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2000s, Larry King Live (2000)

“These are our kids… They're good kids… Joining the army or the Marine Corps does not make you into a crypto-alcoholic Nazi, it makes you into a child of America who is doing a job for his country… Those are our kids… They're our kids.”

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2000s, In Depth with Tom Clancy (2002)

“The average guy is smart enough to know the difference between what works and what doesn't, and if you have bad information, sooner or later, you figure it out and you get onto something else.”

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2000s, Larry King Live (2000)

“To truly feel like we're fighting terrorism, we need as much intelligence and infiltration as possible into known rivals of democracy. Once that information is collected, a sincere commitment must be made to thwart their effects through unified/joint military resolve.”

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2000s, GameSpy interview

“[…] The image superimposed on Ricci's field of view by his visor display showed a pair of guards in hooded parkas, goggles, and wool scarves taking relaxed strides along their patrol of the building's north side. Their shoulder-slung FN P90 assault weapons fired the same ammunition as his FN Five-seveN pistol: small rounds, big punch. […]”

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With Jerome Preisler and Martin H. Greenberg; Bio-Strike (2000), p. 405
2000s

“People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots…”

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"Clancy Speaks Again, Briefly" (12 February 2000)
2000s

“Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.”

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Tom Clancy livre Debt of Honor

Debt of Honor (1994), ch. 5
1990s

“The hard part is discriminating between factual reporting and journalistic fiction. Last year at the National Press Club I said out loud and in public [C-SPAN was there] that the difference between me and a lot of reporters is that I do good fiction. Some were polite enough to chuckle.”

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"Clancy Speaks Again, Briefly" (12 February 2000) http://www.clancyfaq.com/Clancy%20Speaks%20Again%20Briefly.htm
2000s

“I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.”

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2000s, Kudlow & Cramer interview (2003)

“The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.”

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Jokingly to news reporters. Speech at the National Press Club (18 May 1999).
1990s

“"If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?"”

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Tom Clancy livre The Cardinal of the Kremlin

Jack Ryan and MG Dalmatov, SA; The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988), p. 796
1980s

“Our tools keep getting better, and as a result of that, our lives keep getting better.”

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1990s, Schafer interview (1995)

“The average guy is fairly smart, if you give him the ability to make decisions for himself. That's the whole premise of America, and that's why America has prospered, and it prospers because if the average guy can get information, he can make his own decisions.”

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2000s, Larry King Live (2000)

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