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* OddlySmallOrganization: The Campus consists of less than a dozen people in total but is capable of doing work the CIA isn't in fighting terrorism.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Subverted by the Emir.
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* TooDumbToLive: Most of the people the URC hires, but especially [[spoiler: Vitaliy and Vanya, who have witnessed the theft of nuclear material, but still don't figure out that they're loose ends for their employers, even when one of the terrorists comes up to Vitaliy and literally asks him point-blank if there's anybody else around before murdering him.]]
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* BrotherSisterTeam: Citra and Purnoma Salim.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: A couple.
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* SpyFiction: The Campus pretends to be of the Stale Beer variety but is entirely a Martini flavored fantasy.
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Unrelated to the FightingGame ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive''.
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* BadAss: All of the Campus.
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* PayEvilUntoEvilPayEvilUntoEvil: Much like in the previous book, The Campus some times uses tools and methods that are considered by some to be "evil" against those who would engage in terrorism.
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** Ed Kealty is a horrible caricature of a liberal President.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A terrorist group kills all but two people who worked with them while they were setting up for their attacks. The two exceptions are the prostitute hired to provide sex for the group's leader and the woman who was extracting the information from the Yucca Flats employee.
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** The Emir's lawyer also was a horrible caricature - from her name "Cochrane", to her delusional attraction to the terrorist mastermind.
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[[caption-width-right:350: The Emir's days are numbered.]]
[[caption-width-right:350: The Emir's days are numbered.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The interrogation of [[spoiler: The Emir]] goes beyond garden-variety torture to a simulated heart attack using succinylcholine. Properly administered, it can be done over and over and over again [[spoiler: although once is sufficient to break The Emir]].
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The interrogation of [[spoiler: The Emir]] goes beyond garden-variety torture to a simulated heart attack using succinylcholine. Properly administered, it can be done over and over and over again [[spoiler: although once is sufficient to break The the Emir]].
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The Campus is illegal and doing illegal things but "blank pardons" provided by Jack Ryan while in office allow them to be cleared for any and all crimes they committed.
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* BigBad: TheEmir.Emir is responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
* CaptainErsatz: The Emir is Osama Bin Ladin in everything but name.
* BigBad: The
* CaptainErsatz: The Emir is Osama Bin Ladin in everything but name.
* KickTheDog: The Emir murders a prostitute on the possibility she might have recognized him.
* RefugeInAudacity: The premise is an illegal murder organization for a non-sitting President is killing terrorists across the globe. However, they were given "signed pardons" so it's all legal, somehow.
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* {{CIA}}
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: More like CIA and NSA incompetent due to [[ExecutiveMeddling political interference from on high]], Campus good.
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Subverted repeatedly in the dialogue until the final act of the book where it suddenly worked.
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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Subverted repeatedly in the dialogue until the [[spoiler:the final act of the book where it suddenly worked.
worked]].
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* GenerationXerox: Jack Ryan Junior is aWallstreet Wall Street executive turned Intelligence Analyst turned Badass. Just like Dear Old Dad.
* GenerationXerox: Jack Ryan Junior is a
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''Dead or Alive'' is a political thriller novel by TomClancy and co-authored by Grant Blackwood, featuring [[Literature/JackRyan Jack Ryan]]. It was published on December 7, 2010.
It unites characters from Clancy’s fictional world, including Jack Ryan (the former CIA analyst and president), his son, Jack Ryan, Jr., his cousins Dominic and Brian Caruso and former clandestine operatives John Clark and Ding Chavez of the novel Rainbow Six. It follows the characters on a mission to capture a middle eastern terrorist, Saif Rahman Yasin (known as "The Emir"), a character heavily based on Osama bin Laden, and responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the universe's storyline.
It unites characters from Clancy’s fictional world, including Jack Ryan (the former CIA analyst and president), his son, Jack Ryan, Jr., his cousins Dominic and Brian Caruso and former clandestine operatives John Clark and Ding Chavez of the novel Rainbow Six. It follows the characters on a mission to capture a middle eastern terrorist, Saif Rahman Yasin (known as "The Emir"), a character heavily based on Osama bin Laden, and responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the universe's storyline.
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''Dead or Alive'' is a political thriller novel by TomClancy Creator/TomClancy and co-authored by Grant Blackwood, featuring [[Literature/JackRyan Jack Ryan]].Literature/JackRyan. It was published on December 7, 2010.
It unites characters from Clancy’s fictional world, including Jack Ryan (the former CIA analyst and president), his son, Jack Ryan, Jr., his cousins Dominic and Brian Caruso and former clandestine operatives John Clark and Ding Chavez of the novelRainbow Six.''Literature/RainbowSix''. It follows the characters on a mission to capture a middle eastern terrorist, Saif Rahman Yasin (known as "The Emir"), a character heavily based on Osama bin Laden, and responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the universe's storyline.
It unites characters from Clancy’s fictional world, including Jack Ryan (the former CIA analyst and president), his son, Jack Ryan, Jr., his cousins Dominic and Brian Caruso and former clandestine operatives John Clark and Ding Chavez of the novel
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** Arguably subverted as the Emir, himself, is a kind of pathetic figure.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Used twice.
* HookersAndBlow: How the Emir spends his time in [[spoiler: Vegas]].
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''Dead or Alive'' is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy and co-authored by Grant Blackwood, featuring Jack Ryan. It was published on December 7, 2010.
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This book contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Andrea, Jack Ryan Sr's favorite Secret Servicewoman.
* BadAss: All of the Campus.
* BadassArmy: The US Rangers, hampered only by Washington.
* Badass Bookworm: Both Jacks.
* BigBad: The Emir.
* CareerKillers: The Campus' entire staff it seems.
* {{CIA}}
* EliteArmy: The USA is being slowly dismantled from this.
* FBIGoodCIABad: More like CIA and NSA incompetent, Campus good.
* GenerationXerox: Jack Ryan Junior is a Wallstreet executive turned Intelligence Analyst turned Badass. Just like Dear Old Dad.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Subverted by the Emir.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Campus is one, though it doesn't work for the government.
* {{NSA}}
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: A couple.
* InterserviceRivalry: The NSA and CIA have this. The Campus has this with them but it's because they're so much better.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Subverted, surprisingly, given the premise. Everyone says torture is a dumb way to find information.
* MurderInc: The Campus but one for good. Subverted by the fact their corporation exists only to fund their assassinations for good.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The entirety of Edward Kealty's administration it seems.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Ryan and Kealty are contrasted at every turn.
* PerfectPoison: The succinylcholine poison.
* SpySchool: The Campus has a small one.
* SpyFiction: The Campus pretends to be of the Stale Beer variety but is entirely a Martini flavored fantasy.
* StrawmanPolitical: Ed Kealty is a horrible caricature of a liberal President.
* TakeThat: Against national health care.
* TooDumbToLive: Ed Kealty.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Shot to hell the entire book as a stupid fantasy.
It unites characters from Clancy’s fictional world, including Jack Ryan (the former CIA analyst and president), his son, Jack Ryan, Jr., his cousins Dominic and Brian Caruso and former clandestine operatives John Clark and Ding Chavez of the novel Rainbow Six. It follows the characters on a mission to capture a middle eastern terrorist, Saif Rahman Yasin (known as "The Emir"), a character heavily based on Osama bin Laden, and responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the universe's storyline.
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This book contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Andrea, Jack Ryan Sr's favorite Secret Servicewoman.
* BadAss: All of the Campus.
* BadassArmy: The US Rangers, hampered only by Washington.
* Badass Bookworm: Both Jacks.
* BigBad: The Emir.
* CareerKillers: The Campus' entire staff it seems.
* {{CIA}}
* EliteArmy: The USA is being slowly dismantled from this.
* FBIGoodCIABad: More like CIA and NSA incompetent, Campus good.
* GenerationXerox: Jack Ryan Junior is a Wallstreet executive turned Intelligence Analyst turned Badass. Just like Dear Old Dad.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Subverted by the Emir.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Campus is one, though it doesn't work for the government.
* {{NSA}}
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: A couple.
* InterserviceRivalry: The NSA and CIA have this. The Campus has this with them but it's because they're so much better.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Subverted, surprisingly, given the premise. Everyone says torture is a dumb way to find information.
* MurderInc: The Campus but one for good. Subverted by the fact their corporation exists only to fund their assassinations for good.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The entirety of Edward Kealty's administration it seems.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Ryan and Kealty are contrasted at every turn.
* PerfectPoison: The succinylcholine poison.
* SpySchool: The Campus has a small one.
* SpyFiction: The Campus pretends to be of the Stale Beer variety but is entirely a Martini flavored fantasy.
* StrawmanPolitical: Ed Kealty is a horrible caricature of a liberal President.
* TakeThat: Against national health care.
* TooDumbToLive: Ed Kealty.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Shot to hell the entire book as a stupid fantasy.
