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* ''Transfer of Power''
* ''The Third Option''
* ''Separation of Power''
* ''Executive Power''
* ''Memorial Day''
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* ''Protect and Defend''
* ''Extreme Measures''
* ''Pursuit of Honor''
* ''American Assassin''
* ''Kill Shot''
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** Especially with Hank Clark, who goes to incredibly elaborate lengths to burn the CIA. The grand payoff? Increased publicity for himself so he can start a presidential campaign, with no guarantee he'll win it. That's about it.
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: The Good Cop is Mike Nash and the Bad Cop is Mitch Rapp, in ''Extreme Measures''.
* [[Good
* [[Green Eyes]]: Anna has 'em. A pair so stunning, they knock Mitch off his one-track mind in the middle of a national calamity in ''Transfer of Power''.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Mitch, to the terrorists on what the Koran says about what they're doing.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Mitch, after Anna's death.}}
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* [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer]]: [[Matter of Life and Death|Understandably]] inverted in ''Transfer of Power'': the Author's Note mentions that some of the included details are faked for the protection of the President and of the Secret Service.
* [[Not So Stoic]]: Mitch finds out that {{spoiler|the bomb blast that severely injured him has also killed his wife, immediately after he wakes up in a hospital.}} His boss {{spoiler|(who already knows of the death)}} arrives to give him this news, but her hesitancy makes it painfully clear to him. Once she finally confirms it out loud, he {{spoiler|[[Big No|takes it pretty badly]] and has to be restrained and tranquilized. Then, [[Manly Tears|all he can do is shed a tear...]]}}
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Played with, in ''Transfer of Power''. The characters must consult with Mossad before they can ascertain whether a certain terrorist they've confirmed to be inside the White House is either an Iraqi vault-breaker or a zealous Palestinian youth. Played straight, however, in every other example.
* [[Omniglot]]: Mitch speaks Arabic, Persian, and a little bit of Urdu and Pashto.
* [[Perp Sweating]]
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* [[Rabid Cop]] (Mitch
* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: In the first book when Mitch is holed up in a secret closet off the President's personal bedroom ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) and is about to witness the raping of a hostage by one of the terrorists, it is stated that Mitch's anger at this violation so contorts his expression that his partner for this whole mission does not even recognize him anymore.
** Furthermore, he knowingly jeopardizes the security of his mission ''to rescue the President of the United States and some fifty hostages being held captive'' in order to avert the rape. But that's not all - the commanders watching from the Pentagon tacitly agree that they themselves would have done the same so they don't get mad at him. It ends up working out for him anyway.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Events and issues from [[Real Life]] (9/11, Iranian nuclear ambition, etc.) form the background for the books.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Mitch and {{spoiler|Anna, after Mitch rescues her from an [[Attempted Rape]] by one of the extremists holding the White House hostage in ''Transfer of Power''}}
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* [[Violence Really Is the Answer]]:a recurring theme, particularly prominant in Term Limits.
* [[With Due Respect]]: To be expected. They're political thriller novels about a spy who is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. Also, politicians often play the roles of bureaucrats who only want to conserve their own power so any operatives featured in the novel are often put in the position of this trope.
** In the first book, ''Transfer of Power'', it's used by Mitch and Lt. Commander Dan Harris in the "I respectfully disagree" flavor to their own respective superiors within a chapter of each other.
* [[Would Not Shoot a Civilian]]: Mitch feels the main difference between him and the terrorists he hunts is that Mitch is unwilling to harm/kill innocent civilians whereas terrorists make no such distinction.
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