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* [[The Hunt for Red October/Headscratchers|The Hunt for Red October]]
* [[The Sum of All Fears/Headscratchers|The Sum of All Fears]]
▲* [[Rainbow Six (Video Game)/Headscratchers|Rainbow Six]]
=== ''Patriot Games'' ===
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** In fairness, Jack knew he was being an ass, and knew he'd be hip deep in shit if it backfired, but he was basically trying to use shock tactics to prevent said [[Captain Ersatz]] from slipping into a [[Heroic BSOD]] because of his failed [[I Just Want to Be Badass]] moment. It winds up working out well enough, but he does get called out for the rudeness later on, albeit comically.
** As for how he acquired a knighthood in the first place -- well, as mentioned in the story itself, its been a ''long'' while since an heir to the throne was single-handedly saved from certain death under such circumstances, and the Crown's dignity sort of requires an appropriate reward to be handed out when someone does.
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* Why would Clark be worried about the ADDO learning about the drug dealer murders he committed in ''Without Remorse''? As of ''Executive Orders'', he has a Presidential pardon for that signed by Jack Ryan. Said event could potentially end up being embarrassing to Ryan's reelection campaign (Which didn't exist at the time that this issue was brought up), depending on how Kealty attempts to spin it if he learns of it, but Clark can't be prosecuted for that.
** Having not read DOA, this may have been addressed, but the President cannot pardon state crimes. Clark killing the drug dealers were all Maryland state felonies with no statute of limitations, so unless the Governor signed off on it (and a call from the President probably would have done that), he's still on the hook.
** Several things to remember about Clark's case: one, he was a CIA agent (a temporary one, but still on the federal payroll and performing classified duties) at the time he committed the murders. Two, his murders were all part of a single criminal conspiracy and occurred in multiple state jurisdictions, as well as one murder on a Federal reservation (the guy in the pressure chamber) and several more on a navigable waterway under Coast Guard jurisdiction. And finally, the local police asked for assistance from Federal agencies at several points in the case. Any one of these would be a valid reason to take jurisdiction away from the state of Maryland and make it a federal case, and they had all three.
* At the beginning of ''Teeth of the Tiger'', 56MoHa murders a Mossad agent in the men's room of a restaurant. At the end of the book, Jack Jr kills 56MoHa in the same restroom. The knife that 56MoHa used to kill the Israeli is found on his body, with some traces of the victim's blood still on it. Said knife was sent for DNA testing. That means that it is quite likely that the Italian public ''knows'' that an Israeli diplomat was murdered in a restaurant, and that his killer died of an apparent heart attack ''in the exact same room'' a couple months later. Why didn't anyone comment on this in ''Dead or Alive''? Why didn't the Emir come to the conclusion that this was no coincidence and that the Mossad was sending him a return message?
** Most likely because said Emir assumed that the killers weren't Mossad--the Israelis might have realized the identity of the COS's killer only after Mohammed Hassan al-Din died.
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