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* [[Doorstopper]]
* [[Drama Bomb]]: See [[Wham! Episode]], below.
* [[Dramatis Personae]]: Included in most of the later books.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Intentionally invoked by terrorists in ''Rainbow Six'' to (unsuccessfully) discourage pursuit.
** Robby Jackson has a tendency to handle his car with the same... panache, you might say, as he does his F-14.
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** Although Tom Clancy has never confirmed it, most readers believe that the character of Ed Kealty is an expy of real life US Senator Ted Kennedy. Both of them are Democratic senators from New England, both of them have liberal political views, both come from wealthy families, and both have been involved in sex scandals.
** General Secretary of the CPSU Andrey Ily'ch Narmonov is a very obvious expy of Mikhail Gorbachev.
** Choi Ji-hoon is basically [[North Korea|Kim Jong-un]], [[Serial Number Filed Off]] edition.
** Valeri Volodin, who is the first named leader to take control of Russia after Grushavoy, is a [[Vladimir Putin]] expy.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Scott Adler's negotiation sessions with America's enemies always inevitably fail despite his skill; they have to, otherwise the United States military wouldn't get the chance to strut their stuff.
* [[Faking the Dead]]:
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