Tom Clancy's new condos, by the numbers

Photo by Baltimore Sun photographer Kim Hairston

Novelist Tom Clancy, who spent an eye-popping $12.6 million last fall to buy three condos at the Ritz-Carlton Residences in Baltimore, has taken over the entire penthouse level in his building by purchasing three more.

How much space are we talking about? Well, here are some things that could fit in Clancy's 17,000-square-foot digs:

--Seven average new single-family houses

--A fire station with 12 trucks

--An Olympic-sized swimming pool with enough space left over for a six-bedroom spread

--The giant LED billboard that wraps around a Times Square tower

--A Las Vegas nightclub

--More than 100 of this guy's house

I wonder how much time a place like Clancy's would take to clean.