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* [[History Marches On]]: Given the time between publications of his novels, "time" for the characters gets stretched out as events in [[Real Life]] occur. For instance, Ryan leaves government service around 1992 in ''The Sum of All Fears'', but somehow spends only two years on vacation until ''Debt of Honor'', which takes places in 1996, and {{spoiler|serves as President}} for another year or two up until 2001-ish between ''Executive Orders'' and ''The Bear and the Dragon''. |
* [[History Marches On]]: Given the time between publications of his novels, "time" for the characters gets stretched out as events in [[Real Life]] occur. For instance, Ryan leaves government service around 1992 in ''The Sum of All Fears'', but somehow spends only two years on vacation until ''Debt of Honor'', which takes places in 1996, and {{spoiler|serves as President}} for another year or two up until 2001-ish between ''Executive Orders'' and ''The Bear and the Dragon''. |
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* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Former Vice President Ed Kealty near the end of ''Executive Orders''. In order to counter President {{spoiler|Ryan}}'s executive order quarantining America in the face of an Ebola epidemic, he files a suit to have the order vacated due to violating the Constitution. Unfortunately for him, by having the court refer to the President by name and office, he effectively kills his own claim for the Presidency {{spoiler|until ''Teeth of the Tiger''}}. |
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Former Vice President Ed Kealty near the end of ''Executive Orders''. In order to counter President {{spoiler|Ryan}}'s executive order quarantining America in the face of an Ebola epidemic, he files a suit to have the order vacated due to violating the Constitution. Unfortunately for him, by having the court refer to the President by name and office, he effectively kills his own claim for the Presidency {{spoiler|until ''Teeth of the Tiger''}}. |
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** [[Artistic License Law]]: Not only was the issue not being litigated in that case, thus precluding a ruling on the merits, but plaintiffs in civil suits are allowed to advance contradictory theories in court (pleading in the alternative). Funnily enough, after making two legal errors for the price of one, Clancy has another character call Kealty "a bad lawyer." |
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* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Pamela Madden in ''Without Remorse'', is a [[Deconstruction]] of this concept. After befriending John Kelly and getting clean from drugs, she is ruthlessly raped and murdered by her former pimps. |
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Pamela Madden in ''Without Remorse'', is a [[Deconstruction]] of this concept. After befriending John Kelly and getting clean from drugs, she is ruthlessly raped and murdered by her former pimps. |
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* [[Honest Corporate Executive]]: In ''Debt of Honor'', Founder/Chairman of the Columbus Group of mutual funds George Winston is practically a saint, as are most of the Wall Street executives in the story. |
* [[Honest Corporate Executive]]: In ''Debt of Honor'', Founder/Chairman of the Columbus Group of mutual funds George Winston is practically a saint, as are most of the Wall Street executives in the story. |
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