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* [[The Quiet One]]: Tovera, Adele Mundy's aide. Subverted in that she's a tiny female. So self-effacing that in ''Lt. Leary, Commanding'', police responding to murderous violence at a society garden party ignore her, despite the fact that she's holding a sub-machine gun. Deadlier than her mistress, the [[Badass Bookworm]]. ''Much'' deadlier.
* Occasionally drops [[Shout-Out]]s to modern culture into his work. A punning one was in ''The Sharp End'' when a ship from the Marvelan Confederacy was known as the ''[[Silver Surfer|Argent Server]]''.
* [[Take That]]: Critic Charles Platt described ''Hammer's Slammers'' as, to quote Drake's summary, "queasy voyeurism," and said that if David Drake had ever seen war, he wouldn't write such things. Drake is a Vietnam veteran; see the quote at the top of the page. If you're a character in one of Drake's books and your name is "Platt," about the best you can hope for is to be stupid; financial corruption and/or unsavory sexual tastes may feature as well.
** Possibly the vilest Platt ever got his "sexual" jollies by [[Would Hurt a Child|torturing children to death]]; it was suggested that [[RCN Series|the brutal dictator Porra]] might have assassins assigned to off this fellow [[Even Evil Has Standards|'''just''' because of that]].
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