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{{quote|''"Knocking off a bank or an armoured truck is merely crude. Knocking off an entire republic has, I feel, a certain style."'' |'''Sir James Manson'''}}
''[[The Dogs of War]]'' is a 1974 novel by Frederick Forsyth. It follows [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Sir James Manson]], who discovers a large amount of valuable platinum in Zangaro, a [[People's Republic of Tyranny]], and endeavors to obtain it discreetly. For this end, he employs Cat Shannon, a mercenary, who is given a hundred days to gather his team and make the strike. The rest of the book follows Shannon as he gathers his old friends and prepares for it.
This book is a famous example of [[Shown Their Work]]; Forsyth spent time covering the Nigerian Civil War, and drew heavily from his experiences there. Several people have even tried to carry out coups in real life based on the methods presented within. Forsyth actually pretended to be overthrowing the government of New Guinea based on the very methods he later put into the book, although it is not quite clear whether he would have actually succeeded.
Made into [[The Dogs of War (film)|a movie]] starring [[Christopher Walken]].
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Sir James Manson.
* [[Anonymous Ringer]]: Several: [
* [[Arms Dealer]]: Mostly of the legal variety, except for the one selling Schmeissers.
* [[Badass]]: Cat Shannon and his entire crew of mercenaries.
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* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Sir James Manson, and to an extent, Cat Shannon.
* [[Manly Tears]]: {{spoiler|Upon Jan Dupree's death, by his aide}}.
* [[Out
* [[Private Military Contractors]]: Shannon and company.
* [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]: Zangaro, though later changed.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: The mercenaries about smuggling arms, because one error will get them all life in prison.
* [[The Red Stapler]]: The film's portrayal of a Manville Flare Launcher as a high capacity grenade launcher (in production it was actually firing blanks) led to an improved version of the Manville, the Hawk MM1, that actually ''could'' fire (low pressure) grenades and to the creation of the Milkor MGL.
* [[Rival Turned Evil]]
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The entire book.
* [[Redshirt Army]]: Kimba's forces, mostly due to not having workable guns.
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