Clear and Present Danger

What is the author's style in Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy?

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Consistent with the accurate portrayal of the technology, settings, and action of the story, the language of the characters is equally true to character. Thus the vocabulary of the combat soldiers in the Colombian jungle, and the dialogs of the different elements of the law enforcement agents is given with the realism required and is replete with expletives, profanities, and acronyms. The use of expletives, however, is fairly restrained and is consistent with a realistic portrayal of the situations