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** [[Tom Clancy]] espoused his world view at length in ''The Bear and the Dragon''.

** It started to become really obvious with ''Executive Order''.

** In a Tom Clancy book, John Clark thought to himself that a movie, implied to be ''[[Air Force One]]'' (which in reality did pretty well with critics), was a stupid movie that makes airport security overly diligent. This is most likely an indirect [[Take That]] at [[Harrison Ford]], who Tom Clancy had hated as Jack Ryan.

** In ''Debt of Honor'' a scene in one chapter takes place on a bullet train ride that a Japanese-American spy working for the CIA is riding on. Upon making observations about the passengers on the train, he concludes that he hates just about every aspect of the strange and morally debased Japanese culture and wants to go back home to the good ol' USA as soon as he can. It's pretty much disconnected from the rest of the plot.

* In Joseph Heller's novel ''Good as Gold'', the narrative stops dead for about forty pages while the author delivers a massive rant about Henry Kissinger, how he's a lying, murdering scumbag and how, worst of all, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|he isn't even really Jewish]].

* Joseph Conrad's ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' (1902) is a psychological thriller masquerading as an African adventure story, but even before the psychological element takes center stage, the novella's protagonist, Charlie Marlowe, veers away from pure narrative at times to talk about his spiritual awakening (or spiritual death, as the case may be) while in the Congo. For several pages at a time, we come upon extensive philosophical treatises that were considered long-winded and dull even in Conrad's time. Partly justified by the fact that Marlowe is actually, in-story, speaking to a group of friends on a boat, and it is an unnamed first-person narrator listening to Marlowe who both opens and concludes the whole thing.

 

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