AmericanNovelist, His surprise first hit The Hunt for Red October, made him the master of a series of military thrillers that include Patriot Games. b.1947 Popularity:
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”
“My vision for this book and the others in the series is to let people know what kind of commanders we have, ... You don't pick generals off park benches. ... They are experts at what they do and lot of thinking goes into it. And I want to get across to people the intellectual dimension of command, to let people know that it's hard to be a general. And the people we have with general stars on their shoulders are pretty smart and pretty good guys.”
“Along the way he also learned one or two things about leadership and national security and what our country is all about and what we're trying to do in the world.”