This best-selling author was renowned for his thrillers, usually with espionage or military plotlines. He also wrote a lot of non-fiction, notably, a series of "Guided Tour" books that took readers into a submarine, an aircraft carrier, and a marine expeditionary unit, among others.
He passed away in 2013, somewhat aptly, in October. Who?
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Tom Clancy whose book "The Hunt for Red October" turned him into a full-time author from an insurance salesman.