Tom Clancy: By the Numbers Number of novels written: 20 (including Command Authority, on sale this December) Number of novels written (solely under his name): 14 Number of non-fiction books written (with and without a co-writer): 11 Number of feature films based on his books: 5 (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears - the fifth, Jack Ryan: Shadow One, will released later this year) Number of actors who've played favorite Clancy protagonist Jack Ryan: 4 (Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and in the upcoming film, Chris Pine) Number of books that reached No. 1 on New York Times best-sellers list: 17 Most recent book to do so: Threat Vector, 2012 Number of years he worked as an insurance agent before finally selling his first novel, The Hunt for Red October: 15 Amount he was initially paid for Red October: $5,000 Number of copies he hoped Red October would sell: 5,000 Number of copies Red October sold in its first 6 months: 45,000 Number of Presidents who were blurbed in paperback copies of Red October: 1 (in a 1985 TIME article on the book, Ronald Reagan described it as "the perfect yarn") Number of copies Red October sold to date: 3 million + Amount he was paid, in 1988, in his first post-Red October deal: $3 million (for 3 books) Amount he was paid, in 1997, for a large multi-book deal: $97 million Net worth at the time of his death: $300 million