# Tom Clancy - Grant Blackwood?  Clive Cussler?

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**Created:** [December 7, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancy-grant-blackwood-clive-cussler/563280 "2010-12-07T16:00:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-clancy-grant-blackwood-clive-cussler/563280/21 "2011-01-11T23:42:36Z")

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> [@thirdname](#):
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> I stopped after Rainbow Six. I thought it was lame that he wrote two books in a row that involved the Ebola virus.

That’s my fault, I’m afraid. I came up with the Ebola plot for _Rainbow Six_ when I was designing the videogame. I wasn’t thinking about prior Clancy books at all (and, indeed, I’d read almost none of them).

Of course, when Tom decided to use the game plot for his next book, he could have changed it if he’d wanted to …

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