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Originally posted by [AK]Leonidas
FWIW, I heard that Clancy went through a nasty divorce some years ago. The divorce judge decided that the Jack Ryan character was property subject to division, and awarded half of any Jack Ryan proceeds to his ex-wife. If Clancy's writing has gone downhill, I'd suspect that the divorce decree effectively forcing him to abandon his main character has something to do with it.
Wow, what a bizarre divorce decree. That's tantamount to a judge giving someone else rights to your own thoughts... even ones you haven't thought of yet! (1984-style thoughtcrime anybody?)