Tom Clancy is one of the most successful novelists today. Author of
             numerous best sellers, smash hits such as "The Hunt for Red October" and
             "Patriot Games" rallied him to the top, making him an overnight phenomenon.
             Clancy's main character, Jack Ryan, who first appeared in "The Hunt for
             Red October" has become a household name. Not only is Clancy a best
             selling author, he has become a merchandising machine as a result of
             numerous movies based on his books and the success of the Rainbow Six video
             Tom L. Clancy, Jr. was born April 12, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland.
             While an English major at Baltimore's Loyola College, he dreamed of writing
             a novel someday.[1] Clancy worked as an insurance broker in Maryland until
             the mid-1980's when the story of a Soviet frigate's failed attempt to
             defect to Sweden, together with his deep interest in naval history,
             inspired his first novel, "The Hunt for Red October."[2] Interestingly,
             this novel was first published in an edition of about 14,000 copies by the
             Naval Institute Press, making it its first publication of a work of
             fiction, and considered somewhat of a gamble.[3] Then boom, it hit the
             best seller's list and President Reagan hailed "Hunt" as "the perfect
             yarn."[4] Prior to this publication, Clancy's collected writings numbered
             one letter to the editor, a three-page article on the MX missile, both
             published in the "Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute," and numerous
             insurance policies.[5] Today he lives in Prince Frederick, Maryland with
             his wife, Wanda, and four children in a house which, much like Jack Ryan's,
             overlooks Chesapeake Bay on a cliff.[6] Clancy is a confirmed gun
             enthusiast and has a rigid sense of right and wrong, stating, "good guys"
             are children, surgeons and anyone in uniform and "bad guys" are politician,
             "Red Rabbit" is a set as a prequel to the series of Clancy's Jack
             Ryan character. Criti...