Best-selling US author Tom Clancy, who wrote thrillers including Patriot Games and The Hunt For Red October, has died at the age of 66.
He died in hospital in Baltimore last night, the New York Times reported.
A cause of death has not yet been revealed.
Clancy penned a series of spy and military thrillers including The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, Clear And Present Danger and The Sum Of All Fears, which were all made into successful Hollywood films.
Several of his books featured the character Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst.
Harrison Ford played Ryan in Patriot Games and Clear And Present Danger while Alec Baldwin was in the role for The Hunt For Red October, alongside Sean Connery as the captain of a Soviet submarine.
Ben Affleck played Ryan in The Sum Of All Fears.
A fifth film featuring Ryan called Shadow One is due for release later this year.
Hollywood star Harrison Ford played Clancy's character Jack Ryan The writer had said his dream had been simply to publish a book, hopefully a good one, so that he would be in the Library of Congress catalogue.
Clancy first featured on best-seller lists in 1984 with The Hunt for Red October.
He sold the manuscript to the first publisher he tried, the Naval Institute Press, which had never bought original fiction.
A string of other hits soon followed, including Red Storm Rising.
The president of Clancy's publisher Putnam, Ivan Held, was quoted as saying: "He was a thrill to work with."
Ubisoft Entertainment, a company that Clancy co-founded, said: "We are saddened to learn of Tom Clancy's passing and our condolences go out to his family.
"Tom Clancy was an extraordinary author with a gift for creating detailed, engrossing fictional stories that captivated audiences around the world.
"The teams at Ubisoft, especially at the Red Storm studio, are incredibly grateful to have collaborated with and learned from him, and we are humbled by the opportunity to carry on part of his legacy through our properties that bear his name."
Sandi Mendelson, who worked with Clancy early in his career, told Sky News: "Working with him was just extraordinary.
"It was the beginning of his rise in popularity ... He was incredibly professional and talented ... his writing was extraordinary, the detail, the authenticity, people got lost in his books."
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