FILE - This May 24, 2004 file photo, Author Tom Clancy gestures during an interview in New York. Clancy, the bestselling author of &quot;The Hunt for Red October&quot; and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66. Penguin Group (USA) said Wednesday that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)