Captain America: The Winter Soldier

[Wildeybeast]

Tom Clancy does about as much writing as Ian Fleming these days...

[DWest]

Well, technically he died a year ago October, so anything you see coming out now is more "feed the estate" rubbish (but that's another story entirely).

What Clancy was good at was wargaming, essentially; the novel Red Storm Rising was a writeup of a hypothetical NATO/Soviet clash he had gamed out using available data, but he had done such a good job on determining how things would likely go, the CIA hauled him in and asked him who had given him access to classified data, as his outside guess came out almost exactly how the military's own predictions. Unfortunately for him, Clancy got to see what his idealized politician looked like in the flesh in the form of George W Bush, and there's a large drought in publication as a result of him seeing just how poorly things went in real life.