Tom Clancy: Believable Plots

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the Cold War. There were
many defections in history starting back in World War II when famous people
like Albert Einstein defected to the use because the Germans discriminated
again him being Jewish (pg. 124-5, Vol. 9 Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia).
The more recent occurance of defection to the US of a high ranking deputy
chief of staff del Pi¤o Dˇaz happened in 1987 (pg. 24, "A flight to
freedom"). Ramius was the main character in the novel who decided to
defect. The character helps Clancy to develop reasons for which such a
high ranking commander would defect and later cause conflict to occur
between the U.S. and Soviet Union. The use of historical facts common
during the Cold War was defection which made Communism infamous and Tom
Clancy famous for the believable plot developed.

Similarly in TCTK Clancy also uses historical facts to enhance his
plot making it believable. Using a historical fact, Clancy shows how cruel
the Communist system is with no respect for the ...

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this be? They knew where to find us--exactly! How? What can the
Americans have? How long has the Los Angeles been trailing us?
Decide--you must decide!" (pg. 248, THRO)

Ramius wants to defect from Soviet Union and on one of his missions he
disobeys orders. Nobody knew about his decision, not even the Americans to
whom he wanted to defect. When Ramius received a message from one of the
American submarines and mentions his submarine's name, Red October, he was
astonished because Americans were not supposed to know about his wish to
defect. It is only believable that a person who would not be suspected to
know something would be surprised the way Ramius was. The ...

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