I will miss his books, "Red Storm Rising" and "Clear and Present Danger" are both in my library. Some of his later books [1] suffered from too much detail, where I would have appreciated an editor with the guts to say "Tom, its great that this character has a full life history and several motivating events in their past, but we don't actually need all of that in the book to tell this story ...".<p>It's also sad to see a talented writer die at such a young age. Goodbye Tom, thanks for the great books.<p>[1] I am specifically referring to "The Bear and the Dragon" in this example.