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Tom Clancy’s brand is moving to Little, Brown in a multi-book UK and Commonwealth rights deal between Sphere Fiction publishing director Ed Wood and WME’s Matilda Forbes Watson and Tracy Fisher.
Clancy himself died in 2013, with a series of writers taking up the baton since. The deal comprises six new Tom Clancy-branded books in the Jack Ryan Junior and Jack Ryan series, beginning with Zero Hour this June, written by Don Bentley, as well as 10 classic backlist titles with six in print and e-book, including The Sum of All Fears, Without Remorse and Rainbow Six and four in e-book only, including Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. The most recent Clancy title, Target Acquired, also written by Bentley, was published by Berkeley on 29th March 2022.
Clancy’s novels have sold 3.7 million copies in the UK for £25m in the Nielsen BookScan era, excluding lockdown weeks. His bestseller is Rainbow Six (Putnam), published in paperback in 1999, on 258,060 copies sold. The tie-in video games have sold more than 76 million copies, according to the publisher.
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Wood said: “Tom Clancy is without question the most famous American thriller writer of all time, and, with countless hit films, TV shows and video games based on his work, is also one of the most successful brands in entertainment history.
“His novels of the 1980s and ‘90s were all-too prescient and vastly influential; the new novels do his legacy proud. We will be completely rebranding and relaunching his work over the coming year to bring Clancy and his brand back to centre stage, right where he belongs.”
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