In Fiction
Boston appears in the Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising, launching cruise missiles against military airfields inside the Soviet Union. While escorting her damaged sister Providence to safety she is sunk by torpedoes fired from an Alfa class submarine.
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“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.”
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