Won't even let his villains be villains have to be proto nazis.
The movie version of "Clear and Present Danger" was a waste of celluloid. How much control did Clancy end up exercising over the film? It's pretty common for a print author to see his work butchered on the screen, and have little or say in the final product because of the way the contracts are negotiated and written. Clive Cussler has for many years refused to sell the rights to his books because of the botched "Raise the Titanic!" movie.
Old information, Clancy is turning into such a has been.In The Sum Of All Fears, that was to simplify the story line so it could be made into a normal length movie. Actually, the Saudis and other mainstream Moslems were the "good guys" in the book, our allies against the fanatics. Clancy even took a shot at the ultra-nationalist Israelis.Won't even let his villains be villains have to be proto nazis.
-Eric
The proto-nazi business I guess comes from the revisions in Clancy's Sum of All Fears made by the movie producers because they didn't want to offend the Islamic fanaticists who Clancy had included in his original book. I once heard him explain that although he didn't like that change as made in the movie, he had sold the book to the producers and didn't have a right to any say in what they did with it. It did seem like a pretty wussie cop-out from somebody who otherwise seems so aggressively proud of his writing.....