No...I'm channeling my inner-fanboy.

Got diagnosed with Clancyitis and it never went away.

seen by accident:

a tribute, focuses on the games, which he inspired:

http://www.gameswelt.tv/gameswelttv/unser-nachruf,36617

So, was there any word on cause of death?

John Gresham, a co-author and researcher with Clancy on several books attributed Clancy's death to heart problems: "Five or six years ago Tom suffered a heart attack and he went through bypass surgery. It wasn’t that he had another heart attack, [his heart] just wore out."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy