The penthouse in Baltimore once owned by late novelist Tom Clancy has seen a substantial price cut. The asking price for the novelist’s unit is currently $7.9 million, reduced from the $12 million initial asking price set when the property was listed in October of 2015.

Located at the Ritz-Carlton residences, the penthouse is a combination of four original units. The expenditure for Clancy and his wife was $12.6 million, from purchase through renovation.

The interiors of the residence are, for the most part, white. All white. The overall effect doesn’t suggest ether, really, but it does suggest a void. This is a selling feature as much as an indication of a purity complex; the penthouse as it stands represents the blankest of canvasses.

Square footage comes in at 12,000 square feet, a staggering figure for a penthouse apartment. It incorporates five bedrooms, six and one-half baths, a home cinema, a fitness center, and three—count ‘em—three private elevators in its renovated design. The room which may have served as Clancy’s writerly sanctum sanctorum, an office/library with hardwood floors and dark-stained built-ins, represents the only dashes of color and texture extant. The property’s exterior features six terraces.

Clancy was a wildly popular author of technologically astute cloak-and-dagger potboilers in the 1980’s and 1990’s; for several years copies of ‘The Hunt for Red October’, ‘Clear and Present Danger’ and others were standard equipment for beaches and airports. Several of his novels were adapted as blockbuster films. A lifelong baseball fan, Clancy was a part owner of the Baltimore Orioles. He passed away in 2013.