{"id":18176,"date":"2013-10-03T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T06:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=18176"},"modified":"2013-10-03T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T07:07:32","slug":"tom-clancy-oorlede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=18176","title":{"rendered":"Tom Clancy oorlede"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18177\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tomclancy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18177\" alt=\"Tom Clancy\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tomclancy.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tomclancy.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tomclancy-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Clancy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Tom Clancy was an authentic thriller writer who understood the minutiae of military hardware and anticipated the attack on the Twin Towers.\">Tom Clancy het die 9\/11-aanval op die <em>Twin Towers<\/em> in New York lank voordat dit gebeur het, akkuraat voorspel. Clancy, &#8216;n ware genre-spesialis, het die fynste besonderhede van allerlei milit\u00eare toerusting sowel as strategie, ten seerste begryp.<\/span><span title=\"He will be sorely missed, says Telegraph crime reviewer Jake Kerridge.\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Tom Clancy, who has died aged 66: a prophetic and authentic writer who predicted 9\/11 Photo: Rob Judges\">Di\u00e9 profetiese en outentieke skrywer van ondermeer <em>The hunt for Red October<\/em>, is Woensdag op die ouderdom van 66 oorlede.<br \/>\n<\/span><span title=\"13 Comments\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span title=\"In many ways the clean-living, uxorious Jack Ryan, the CIA operative who ends up as President of the United States in a series of novels by the late Tom Clancy, is about as far removed from James Bond as the hero of a thriller can\">Clancy se hoofkarakter, Jack Ryan, is die CIA-agent wat opeindig as President van die Verenigde State van Amerika in &#8216;n reeks blitsverkoperromans.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"In many ways the clean-living, uxorious Jack Ryan, the CIA operative who ends up as President of the United States in a series of novels by the late Tom Clancy, is about as far removed from James Bond as the hero of a thriller can\">Die skrywer was omtrent so ver verwyder van James Bond as die held van &#8216;n aksieriller kan <\/span><span title=\"be.\">wees. <\/span><span title=\"But there is a striking parallel between the careers of Clancy and Ian Fleming.\">Maar daar is &#8216;n treffende parallel tussen die loopbane van Clancy en Ian Fleming.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Just as the modestly selling Fleming was pushed into literary superstardom after receiving an endorsement from President John F Kennedy, so, two decades later, Clancy's career was boosted by the enthusiasm of the White house incumbent.\">Net soos die beskeie Fleming liter\u00eare supersterstatus bereik het deur President John F. Kennedy se belangstelling in hom, is Clancy se loopbaan <\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Just as the modestly selling Fleming was pushed into literary superstardom after receiving an endorsement from President John F Kennedy, so, two decades later, Clancy's career was boosted by the enthusiasm of the White house incumbent.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Just as the modestly selling Fleming was pushed into literary superstardom after receiving an endorsement from President John F Kennedy, so, two decades later, Clancy's career was boosted by the enthusiasm of the White house incumbent.\"> twee dekades later <\/span><\/span>aangehelp deur die entoesiasme van die presidentskandidaat <\/span><span title=\"Ronald Reagan declared that Clancy's debut novel The Hunt for Red October (1984) was \u201cthe perfect yarn\u201d and \u201cnon-put-downable\u201d.\">Ronald Reagan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Ronald Reagan declared that Clancy's debut novel The Hunt for Red October (1984) was \u201cthe perfect yarn\u201d and \u201cnon-put-downable\u201d.\">Reagan het Clancy se debuutroman <em>Die jag vir Rooi Oktober<\/em> (1984) as &#8220;my soort storie&#8221; en &#8216;n &#8220;moet-lees&#8221; beskryf. <\/span><span title=\"Clancy's sales went into the stratosphere and stayed there: his 1989 book Clear and Present Danger became America's best-selling novel of the 1980s.\">Clancy se verkope het daarna in die stratosfeer ingeskiet en daar gebly.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Clancy's sales went into the stratosphere and stayed there: his 1989 book Clear and Present Danger became America's best-selling novel of the 1980s.\">Sy 1989-boek, <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Clancy's sales went into the stratosphere and stayed there: his 1989 book Clear and Present Danger became America's best-selling novel of the 1980s.\"><i>Clear and Present Danger<\/i> het Amerika se topverkoper-roman van die 1980&#8217;s geword.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"It seems appropriate that Reagan had such a hand in Clancy's success.\">Dit blyk gepas te wees dat Reagan meegewerk het aan Clancy se sukses. <\/span><span title=\"To start with, the film star president helped to launch the career of a fictional president who seems to spend every day as though he lives in an action movie.\">Om mee te begin, het die filmster president gehelp om die loopbaan van &#8216;n fiktiewe president te loods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"But also Reagan would have approved of the Clancy worldview, in which Ryan, representing a benign America, is the guy to sort out the rest of the world's problems, whether it's preventing assassinations (of John Paul II in Red Rabbit or the Prince and Princess\">Maar Reagan het van die Clancy-w\u00eareldbeskouing gehou, waarin Ryan &#8216;n goedgunstige Amerika uitbeeld, wat die res van die w\u00eareld se probleme oplos, ook sluipmoorde (van pous Johannes Paulus II in <em>Red Rabbit<\/em> of die Prins en Prinses <\/span><span title=\"of Wales in Patriot Games) or trying to prevent a Chinese invasion of Taiwan (in last year's Threat Vector).\">van Wallis in <em>Patriot Games<\/em>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"of Wales in Patriot Games) or trying to prevent a Chinese invasion of Taiwan (in last year's Threat Vector).\">En moenie &#8216;n Chinese inval van Taiwan (in verlede jaar se <em>Threat Vector<\/em>) vergeet nie. <\/span><span title=\"One cannot imagine Jack Ryan spending long on the negotiation part if he were dealing with Iran or Syria.\">Jack Ryan sou nie te lank talm met die onderhandelingsproses in Iran of Siri\u00eb nie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Like many writers of politico-military thrillers, Clancy has scored a number of prognosticatory successes by reading the runes of geopolitics.\">Soos baie skrywers van polities-milit\u00eare rillers, het Clancy &#8216;n aantal suksesvolle voorspellings gemaak deur sy geopolitieke belangstellings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Thus he has Arab terrorists attacking the United States in his 1991 novel The Sum of All Fears (the baddies were changed to neo-Nazis in the 2002 film version to avoid troublesome political waters), and he was a constantly talking head on television screens in\">Hy het die aanval deur Arabiese terroriste op die Verenigde State van Amerika in sy 1991-roman <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Thus he has Arab terrorists attacking the United States in his 1991 novel The Sum of All Fears (the baddies were changed to neo-Nazis in the 2002 film version to avoid troublesome political waters), and he was a constantly talking head on television screens in\"><i>The Sum of All Fears<\/i> korrek voorspel. Die antagoniste in die gelyknamige film van 2002 is verander na neo-Nazi&#8217;s om lastige politieke stroomversnellings te vermy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"the days after 9\/11, having predicted a similar disaster in his 1994 novel Debt of Honour, in which several senior politicians are killed when a terrorist crashes a jetliner into the US Capitol (albeit a Japanese terrorist).\">In sy 1994-roman <em>Debt of Honour<\/em>, het hy voorspel dat verskeie senior politici deur &#8216;n terroriste-aanval gedood sou word in die Capitol as &#8216;n straler die gebou tref.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Part of what gives Clancy's novels their sense of authenticity is not just his ability to keep his ear to the ground in terms of who hates America and why, but also his scientific nous \u2013 he understood military hardware, what it is capable of and who might\">Deel van wat Clancy se romans hul sin van egtheid gee, was nie alleen net sy vermo\u00eb om sy oor op die grond te hou oor wie Amerika haat en hoekom nie, maar ook sy grondige kennis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"It is a different sort of authenticity from, say, le Carr\u00e9 \u2013 less to do with the author's conjuring up a convincing secret service atmosphere than with his ability to impress the reader with the depth and accuracy of his research \u2013 but it has certainly got tens\">Sy romans beskik oor &#8216;n ander soort egtheid as le Carr\u00e9 se inkleding van intrige, agv Clancy se vermo\u00eb om die leser te be\u00efndruk met die diepte en die akkuraatheid van sy navorsing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"of millions of readers across the world hooked, even those who might be rather less beguiled by the notion of America as world policeman than the author was.\">Miljoene lesers regoor die w\u00eareld het verslaaf geraak aan sy romans, selfs diegene wat steeds nie van die idee van Amerika as die w\u00eareld se polisieman hou nie.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Clancy het die 9\/11-aanval op die Twin Towers in New York lank voordat dit gebeur het, akkuraat voorspel. 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