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** Admiral Foster of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also points out that nearly all mutinies are actually led by officers, because they're the ones who know how to steal the ship (which causes him to accept Ryan's idea about Ramius and his men defecting).
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** An earlier sub-plot involves the running of an [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece about-to-be-decommissioned]] American sub to the spot where the ''Red October'' was to be "sunk" and be destroyed in its stead, while also being only staffed by about a dozen officers who had to do multiple duties, like an engineer working as a cook when off-shift.
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** An earlier sub-plot involves the running of an [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece about-to-be-decommissioned]] American sub to the spot where the ''Red October'' was to be "sunk" and be destroyed in its stead, while also being only staffed by about a dozen officers who had to do multiple duties, like an engineer working as a cook when off-shift. Subverted in that instance, because they were only trying to get the sub from point A to point B, and had no intention of engaging in any kind of complicated maneuvering, much less combat.
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* DiplomaticCoverSpy: The CIA's Moscow station chief is the embassy's press attache.
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* EnsignNewbie: The junior officers of the ship get some attention, being portrayed as decent men who happen to be firm party believers, but susceptible to Ramius's manipulations.
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* EnsignNewbie: The junior officers of the ship get some attention, being portrayed as decent men who happen to be firm party believers, but susceptible to Ramius's manipulations. It's stated that Ramius picked the three juniormost officers of the ship explicitly for the fact that they were so green that they wouldn't know enough to be able to ask awkward questions and thus would follow the conspirator's orders.
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* MurderByInaction: How Ryan views the [=CIA=] decline to even try to rescue the survivors of [[spoiler:Tuepelov's ship]], which would ruin TheMasquerade, although its also acknowledged there aren't many practical rescue operations anyway.
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* MurderByInaction: How Ryan views the [=CIA=] decline to even try to rescue the survivors of [[spoiler:Tuepelov's ship]], which would ruin TheMasquerade, although its also acknowledged there aren't many practical rescue operations options anyway.
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** Admiral Foster of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also points out that nearly all mutinies are actually led by officers, because their they're the ones who know how to steal the ship (which causes him to accept Ryan's idea about Ramius and his men defecting).
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* EpicFail: by the end of the book, [[spoiler: the Soviets have lost one submarine due to critical reactor failure, another to defection (though they don’t know it and think it was just destroyed) and a third to being sunk by the second (though again, they think it was due to reactor failure). The loss of just one submarine is US territorial waters would be catastrophic. The loss of two is beyond imagining. Three? EpicFail.]]
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* EpicFail: by the end of the book, [[spoiler: the Soviets have lost one submarine due to critical reactor failure, another to defection (though they don’t know it and think it was just destroyed) and a third to being sunk by the second (though again, they think it was due to reactor failure). The loss of just one submarine is US territorial waters would be catastrophic. The loss of two is beyond imagining. Three? Over the course of ''two weeks?'' EpicFail.]]
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** Also true for those in the crew of the ''Politovsky'' who survived the reactor accident.
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* AlphaStrike: Several hundred aircraft are deployed for a strike mission at the Soviet cruiser ''Kirov'' in response to Robby Jackson’s F-14 getting severely damaged and nearly shot down by a hothead Russian fighter pilot. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that the Alpha Strike is a feint, and the real mission is a flight of A-10’s that [[BuzzingTheDeck sneak in under the radar]] and drop a ring of [[IfIWantedYouDead flares]] around the ''Kirov'' before the Russians even realize they’re there.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The Russians have a mole on ''Red October'' who is a cook. The only survivor of a ship lost searching for ''Red October'' is a cook. This briefly causes them to think that the (comatose) cook is there man and scuttled ''Red October'', delaying the search.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The Russians have a mole on ''Red October'' who is a cook. The only survivor of a ship lost searching for ''Red October'' is a cook. This briefly causes them to think that the (comatose) cook is there their man and scuttled ''Red October'', delaying the search.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The Soviet justice system, an organization one would hardly expect needed any more blackening. In the novel, the real-life mutiny led by Shablin is mentioned by Ryan. According to Ryan after the mutiny was suppressed, Shablin and 26 other mutineers were executed. In reality, only Shablin was executed, his main accomplice received an eight year sentence and the other crew members were freed.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Borodin is not mentioned in the last two chapters.
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** Strangely inverted in one sentence where Jonesy the sonar tech is described as the resident Choplifter and Zork champion aboard the ''Dallas''. Choplifter is a standard arcade game with the ubiquitous high score leader board, so this makes sense, but Zork is a text adventure game and not something one could conceivably be a champion of. Tom Clancy obviously didn't research video games with the same eye for detail that he researched submarine warfare.
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** Strangely inverted in one sentence where Jonesy the sonar tech is Tom Clancy even did his homework when it came to contemporary video games. He described Jones, the brilliant and eccentric sonar tech, as the resident Choplifter and Zork champion aboard the ''Dallas''. ''Dallas''. Choplifter is a standard an arcade game with the ubiquitous high score leader board, game, so this makes sense, but Zork is Zork? It's a text adventure game and not something one adventure, so how could conceivably you be a champion of. Tom Clancy obviously didn't research video games with the same eye for detail of it? Well, it turns out that he researched submarine warfare.Zork does keep score, and the challenge for expert players is to acquire the maximum points (350) in the fewest moves.
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** Strangely inverted in one sentence where Jonesy the sonar tech is described as the resident Choplifter and Zork champion aboard the ''Dallas''. Choplifter is a standard arcade game with the ubiquitous high score leader board, so this makes sense, but Zork is a text adventure game and not something one could conceivably be a champion of. Tom Clancy obviously didn't research video games with the same eye for detail that he researched submarine warfare.
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* EnsignNewbie: The junior officers of the ship get some attention, being portrayed as decent men who happen to be firm party believers, but susceptible to Ramius's manipulations
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* EpicFail: by the end of the book, [[spoiler: the Soviets have lost one submarine due to critical reactor failure, another to defection (though they don’t know it and think it was just destroyed) and a third to being sunk by the second (though again, they think it was due to reactor failure). The loss of just one submarine is US territorial waters would be catastrophic. The loss of two is beyond imagining. Three? EpicFail.]]
* EpicFail: by the end of the book, [[spoiler: the Soviets have lost one submarine due to critical reactor failure, another to defection (though they don’t know it and think it was just destroyed) and a third to being sunk by the second (though again, they think it was due to reactor failure). The loss of just one submarine is US territorial waters would be catastrophic. The loss of two is beyond imagining. Three? EpicFail.]]
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* BenevolentBoss: Greer if quite fatherly to Ryan and Jduge Moore also announces that Ryan's conclusions about the sub are based on assumptions Moore has given him, so that any misjudgment isn't Ryan's fault.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Since the ships actual doctor wasn't in on the plan, the people wounded by the cook are treated by a junior officer who reads medical textbooks as a hobby. He does a surprisingly good job.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The Russians have a mole on ''Red October'' who is a cook. The only survivor of a ship lost searching for ''Red October'' is a cook. This briefly causes them to think that the (comatose) cook is there man and scuttled ''Red October'', delaying the search.
** A few of the sailors also defect while being processed in America after seeing the better standard of life there.
* EnsignNewbie: The junior officers of the ship get some attention, being portrayed as decent men who happen to be firm party believers, but susceptible to Ramius's manipulations
* MurderByInaction: How Ryan views the [=CIA=] decline to even try to rescue the survivors of [[spoiler:Tuepelov's ship]], which would ruin TheMasquerade, although its also acknowledged there aren't many practical rescue operations anyway.
** Admiral Foster of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also points out that nearly all mutinies are actually led by officers, because their the ones who know how to steal the ship (which causes him to accept Ryan's idea about Ramius and his men defecting).
* MyGirlBackHome: The doctor of the cook who survives the submarine that sank searching for ''Red October'' mentions that in his delirium he's been talking about a girl with brown eyes a lot.
* MyGirlBackHome: The doctor of the cook who survives the submarine that sank searching for ''Red October'' mentions that in his delirium he's been talking about a girl with brown eyes a lot.
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* NoodleIncident: Nobody on the ''Red October'' knows how the tunnel drive got nicknamed "the caterpillar", but the name stuck.
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** Nobody on the ''Red October'' knows how the tunnel drive got nicknamed "the caterpillar", but the namestuck.stuck.
** Ryan describes intelligence report of a previous Soviet sub that surfaced and showed signs there may have been a mutiny on board, but this is never confirmed or referenced again.
** Nobody on the ''Red October'' knows how the tunnel drive got nicknamed "the caterpillar", but the name
** Ryan describes intelligence report of a previous Soviet sub that surfaced and showed signs there may have been a mutiny on board, but this is never confirmed or referenced again.
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** The cook from the vessel that was sunk by accident looking for ''Red October''.
** Only one of the translators originally meant to meet Ramius survives when bad weather brings down their transport, and he has a broken leg (necessitating Ryan taking their place).
** The cook from the vessel that was sunk by accident looking for ''Red October''.
** Only one of the translators originally meant to meet Ramius survives when bad weather brings down their transport, and he has a broken leg (necessitating Ryan taking their place).
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* HollywoodTactics: Averted. In one of the only instances of its like seen in military media, a group of American and British generals and admirals get together to plan a defense against a perceived Soviet Navy attack ''without'' involvement in the discussion by any political figures such as the President or national security advisor. They know what they're up against and with very concise language arrange for certain ships to be on the front lines with certain others in support, arrange unneeded aircraft on aircraft carriers to be replaced with ones more appropriate for subsurface warfare, swap assets between units without regard for political niceties, and in the end have a very workable plan for a large-scale naval battle ready in a matter of minutes. The plan never has to be put into effect, of course, but it's a great show of what a room of professionals can do without worrying about outside factors while doing what they do best.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Jones is described as weird even by Navy sub sonarman standards.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Loginov]], though he wasn’t much of a villain anyway.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Loginov]], though he wasn’t much of a villain anyway.
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** Several of Ramius' officers have similar stories of being screwed over and subjected to indignities by the state. One was repeatedly denied promotion for ''decades'' because his parents, despite being loyal Communists, were Jewish; another was sexually propositioned by a superior officer, and was subsequently ''punished'' for reporting the impropriety because the man was the son of an extremely high-ranking party official. The chief engineer, although Ramius' equal in rank, never received a command of his own simply because he was too good of an engineer, and the Soviet Navy wanted to keep him in the engine room (in the Soviet Navy, like most navies, engineer is a staff position not in the line of command; due to its commitment to nuclear safety, the American submarine fleet is a rare exception).
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** Several of Ramius' officers have similar stories of being screwed over and subjected to indignities by the state. One was repeatedly denied promotion for ''decades'' because his parents, despite being loyal Communists, were Jewish; another was sexually propositioned by a superior officer, and was subsequently ''punished'' for reporting the impropriety because the man was the son of an extremely high-ranking party official. (The officer who was propositioned was probably Borodin, since the narrator noted that Borodin once accused a zampolit of homosexuality and the guy he informed on was the son of the chief zampolit of the Northern Fleet.) The chief engineer, although Ramius' equal in rank, never received a command of his own simply because he was too good of an engineer, and the Soviet Navy wanted to keep him in the engine room (in the Soviet Navy, like most navies, engineer is a staff position not in the line of command; due to its commitment to nuclear safety, the American submarine fleet is a rare exception).
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* BadassBookworm: Jack Ryan: CIA academic and retired former Marine, with a doctorate in history.
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** The noisiest thing on a nuclear submarine isn't the screws by a long shot, it's the nuclear power plant itself. A caterpillar drive, if possible, would do nothing to help with this.
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** The noisiest thing on a nuclear submarine isn't the screws by a long shot, it's the nuclear power plant itself. A caterpillar drive, if possible, would do nothing to help with this. In the novel, the caterpiller is a pump-jet propulsor rather than a phlebotnium drive; at best it would confuse sonar operators and mask the reactor noises.
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** Several of Ramius' officers have similar stories of being screwed over and subjected to indignities by the state. One was repeatedly denied promotion for ''decades'' because his parents, despite being loyal Communists, were Jewish; another was sexually propositioned by a superior officer, and was subsequently ''punished'' for reporting the impropriety because the man was the son of an extremely high-ranking party official. The chief engineer, although Ramius' equal in rank, never received a command of his own simply because he was too good of an engineer, and the Soviet Navy wanted to keep him in the engine room.
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** Several of Ramius' officers have similar stories of being screwed over and subjected to indignities by the state. One was repeatedly denied promotion for ''decades'' because his parents, despite being loyal Communists, were Jewish; another was sexually propositioned by a superior officer, and was subsequently ''punished'' for reporting the impropriety because the man was the son of an extremely high-ranking party official. The chief engineer, although Ramius' equal in rank, never received a command of his own simply because he was too good of an engineer, and the Soviet Navy wanted to keep him in the engine room.room (in the Soviet Navy, like most navies, engineer is a staff position not in the line of command; due to its commitment to nuclear safety, the American submarine fleet is a rare exception).
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* AntiVillain: Igor Loginov, the saboteur, is clearly terrified of the situation he is in, but is perfectly willing to go down with the ''Red October'' and loyal to his country to the end.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Loginov]], though he wasn’t much of a villain anyway.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Loginov]], though he wasn’t much of a villain anyway.
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* AFateWorseThanDeath: Subverted. [[spoiler:Admiral Yuri Padorin is forced to be a mole for the KGB amongst the leadership of the Soviet Union, but he is happy with this arrangement, as he had feared he would be [[YouHaveFailedMe disposed of.]]]] Played straight when a similar fate befalls [[spoiler:Henderson]].
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Lt. Kamarov is found dead by Ryan and Ramius, shot by the saboteur, and promptly forgotten about.]]
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** The Americans, being understandably nervous about the Soviet fleet off their shores, give them several such moments, with the SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome being [[spoiler:having four A-10 Warthogs zoom in under the radar horizon and box the ''Kirov'' with flares]].
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** The Americans, being understandably nervous about the Soviet fleet off their shores, give them several such moments, with the SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome best being [[spoiler:having four A-10 Warthogs zoom in under the radar horizon and box the ''Kirov'' with flares]].
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* SovietSuperscience: ZigZaggedTrope: While the ''Red October's'' caterpillar drive is incredibly advanced tech (thus making the submarine the MacGuffin of the story), the sub as a whole (even if the most advanced vehicle the Soviets had devised) is still laughably far behind American submarine technology (to the point that one of the [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moments Of Funny]] of the book is Jones looking over the ''Red October's'' communications systems and fixing them with ease (they had been "sabotaged" earlier) while deeming them unbelievably old-school compared to the Dallas'... and the ''Red October'''s communications officer is standing right next to him, taking offense at that).
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* SovietSuperscience: ZigZaggedTrope: While the ''Red October's'' caterpillar drive is incredibly advanced tech (thus making the submarine the MacGuffin of the story), the sub as a whole (even if the most advanced vehicle the Soviets had devised) is still laughably far behind American submarine technology (to the point that one of the [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moments Of Funny]] funniest moments of the book is Jones looking over the ''Red October's'' communications systems and fixing them with ease (they had been "sabotaged" earlier) while deeming them unbelievably old-school compared to the Dallas'... and the ''Red October'''s communications officer is standing right next to him, taking offense at that).
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It's a UsefulNotes/ColdWar tale of the fictional [[CoolBoat "Typhoon" class missile submarine]] ''Krasniy Oktyabr'' ("Red October"). The sub has an experimental ducted tunnel drive, which allows it to run more quietly than any other ship at sea; effectively making it nigh-invisible to sonar detection. On its first deployment, Captain Marko Ramius murders his political officer, taking his [[TwoKeyedLock set of keys]] for the ''October'''s nuclear missiles. Conspiring with his senior officers, Ramius notifies his crew that they will be testing the ship by evading both the U.S. and Soviet navies to reach the eastern coast of the United States itself…
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It's a UsefulNotes/ColdWar tale of the fictional [[CoolBoat "Typhoon" class missile submarine]] ''Krasniy Oktyabr'' ''Красный Октябрь'' ("Red October"). The sub has an experimental ducted tunnel drive, which allows it to run more quietly than any other ship at sea; effectively making it nigh-invisible to sonar detection. On its first deployment, Captain Marko Ramius murders his political officer, taking his [[TwoKeyedLock set of keys]] for the ''October'''s nuclear missiles. Conspiring with his senior officers, Ramius notifies his crew that they will be testing the ship by evading both the U.S. and Soviet navies to reach the eastern coast of the United States itself…
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The story was inspired by a real-life mutiny on board a Soviet frigate (the ''Storozhevoy'', mentioned in the book) in 1975, but differs in several key respects from it. Most notably in that Valeriy Sablin (the real-life mutineer) was attempting to ignite a second, anti-Stalinist bolshevik revolution, rather than flee to the west in his lust for blue jeans and Coca-Cola.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The story was inspired by a real-life mutiny on board a Soviet frigate (the ''Storozhevoy'', mentioned in the book) in 1975, but differs in several key respects from it. Most notably in that Valeriy Sablin (the real-life mutineer) was attempting to ignite a second, anti-Stalinist bolshevik Bolshevik revolution, rather than flee to the west West in his lust for blue jeans and Coca-Cola.
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It's a UsefulNotes/ColdWar tale of the fictional [[CoolBoat "Typhoon" class missile submarine]] ''Krasniy Oktyabr'' ("Red October"). The sub has an experimental ducted tunnel drive, which allows it to run more quietly than any other ship at sea; effectively making it nigh-invisible to sonar detection. On its first deployment, Captain Marko Ramius murders his political officer, taking his [[TwoKeyedLock set of keys]] for the ''October'''s nuclear missiles. Conspiring with his senior officers, Ramius notifies his crew that they will be testing the ship by evading both the U.S. and Soviet navies to reach the eastern coast of the United States itself....
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It's a UsefulNotes/ColdWar tale of the fictional [[CoolBoat "Typhoon" class missile submarine]] ''Krasniy Oktyabr'' ("Red October"). The sub has an experimental ducted tunnel drive, which allows it to run more quietly than any other ship at sea; effectively making it nigh-invisible to sonar detection. On its first deployment, Captain Marko Ramius murders his political officer, taking his [[TwoKeyedLock set of keys]] for the ''October'''s nuclear missiles. Conspiring with his senior officers, Ramius notifies his crew that they will be testing the ship by evading both the U.S. and Soviet navies to reach the eastern coast of the United States itself....
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** Very few Soviet submarines were ever given official names, yet all of the Soviet submarines with viewpoint characters aboard - the Red October aboard—the eponymous ''Red October'' itself, the pursuing Konovalov, ''V.K. Konovalov'', and the ill-fated ''Politovskiy'' - are ''E.S. Politovskiy''—are named.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Sonarman 1/C Jones. In just a few hours, he finds a way to beat the ''Red October'''s top secret stealth propulsion system and track the sub.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The story was inspired by a real-life mutiny on board a Soviet frigate (the ''Storozhevoy'', mentioned in the book) in 1975, but differs in several key respects from it. Most notably in that Valery Valeriy Sablin (the real-life mutineer) was attempting to ignite a second, anti-Stalinist bolshevik revolution, rather than flee to the west in his lust for blue jeans and Coca-Cola.
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* PostInjuryDeskJob: Commander Quentin, a former destroyer officer, had to man a sonar listening post while he's recovering from chemotherapy, and "Skip" Tyler, a former submarine officer who is now teaching at Annapolis and doing consulting work after losing half a leg to a drunk driver. At one point, Tyler is offered the chance to go back to sea, but he turns it down so he can spend more time with his family.
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* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The caterpiller drive only appears in this book and is not brought up again in subsequent novels. Understandable as it was an invention of Clancy for his first novel and wouldn't fit into his later, hyper realistic books.
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* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The caterpiller drive only appears in this book and is not brought up again in subsequent novels. Understandable as it was an invention of Clancy for his first novel and wouldn't fit into his later, hyper realistic books. Considering the fact that Jones (with good use of his sub's sonar tech) is capable of keeping track of it for an extended period of time, the implication of it being too AwesomeButImpractical is also firmly set.
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* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The caterpiller drive only appears in this book and is not brought up again in subsequent novels. Understandable as it was an invention of Clancy for his first novel and wouldn't fit into his later, hyper realistic books.
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** Later on, the ''Politovskiy'' suffers a fatal reactor failure that kills the crew. Its death has one last part to play when the only survivor, a cook, is s RedHerring to the Russians, because they think he may be a member of the crew of the ''Red October''.
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