The Hunt for Red October (novel)/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • The fact that, in writing one of his books, Clancy (who did not know how a United States submarine worked) managed to accurately describe it and its features. He was then visited by the Navy, who had a few questions to ask...
    • What makes it even funnier is that he had extrapolated how it worked through simple library research. The Navy was in a panic over how this civilian had managed to obtain classified secrets, and these "secrets" were out there available for anyone smart enough to put all the pieces together, as long as they had a valid library card.
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