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** the family of the embezzling money-launderer, although they were targeted on purpose.

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** the The family of the embezzling money-launderer, although they were targeted on purpose.



** [[spoiler:And Jack Ryan, with Admiral Greer in the hospital and eventually dead, becomes the new acting Deputy Director Intelligence (head of the CIA's analysts)]].

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** [[spoiler:And Jack Ryan, with Admiral Greer in the hospital and eventually dead, becomes the new acting Deputy Director of Intelligence (head of the CIA's analysts)]].
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* PragmaticVillainy: Larsen warns Clark that the Colombian drug lords are more than just very well-funded macho thugs. The smartest thing they did, he confides, was to form the cartel and (mostly) avoid the kind of infighting that cripples many other criminal enterprises.


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** Larsen warns Clark (and via him, the CIA), in the strongest terms: ''"Don't underestimate them, my friend. The cartel is smart, it has all the resources it needs, and it's ruthless enough to scare a veteran Nazi."''
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** Cortez also shows significant respect for the skill of the American soldiers, largely because they're unwittingly helping him to whittle down the Cartel's own troops ahead of Cortez's planned coup. After the Battle of Ninja Hill, the Cartel gunmen bring Cortez a heavily wounded American soldier they managed to capture. Instead of interrogating him, Cortez just gives the soldier a dose of morphine and lets him die in peace.
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* ResignedInDisgrace: [[spoiler:The President agrees to throw his own reelection campaign in exchange for the illegal military operations in Colombia being kept secret from the public.]]
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* IronicNickname: "Bronco" Winters got his callsign after falling off a horse while drunk at a party.

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