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R.I.P. Tom Clancy

The initial reports are just beginning to appear all over the ‘net that spy-thriller author and rubber-stamper-of-his-name-on-videogames Tom Clancy has passed away. So long, and thanks for the reading material I enjoyed in my teenage years, the Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger films, and all those Splinter Cell videogames.

In his honour, this classic scene from The Hunt for Red October:

Joey deVilla

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