The Hunt for Red October (novel): Difference between revisions

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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: in the movie, the ''Dallas'' swoops in to drop a couple of decoys and save the Red October.

* [[Bothering by the Book]]: The President had the Attorney General had dug up some precedents in maritime law that would have granted America the right to keep the Red October until such time as the Russians paid the US Government a finder's fee as determined by a salvage court - which had a one year backlog of cases to go through before even attempting to assess how much the Russians would have to fork over to get their sub back. However, since the Navy and CIA worked out a plan to trick the Russians into thinking that the Red October had been destroyed, this trope never got past the planning stage.

** Before the final 'fake its destruction' plan the Justice Department was also working on plans to use the narcotics trafficking laws and impound the submarine for a full search-and-seizure the instant it entered American waters, as another delaying tactic to avoid having to give it back until they were finished examining it.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Jones is described as weird even by Navy sub sonarman standards.

* [[The Captain]]: Bart Mancuso of the USS ''Dallas'', and Marco Ramius of the ''Red October''.