The Hunt for Red October (A Jack Ryan Thriller)

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Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on....

ANNOTATION

A race between the Soviet and American fleets to find an errant Russian submarine.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Special 15th Anniversary Edition of the New York Times bestseller that propelled Tom Clancy to the top--available for the first time in trade!

Here is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so gripping in its action and so convincing in its accuracy that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House. Its theme: the greatest espionage coup in history. Its story: the chase for a top secret Russian missile sub. Lauded by the Washington Post as "breathlessly exciting," The Hunt for Red October remains a masterpiece of military fiction by one of the world's most popular authors, a man whose shockingly realistic scenarios continue to hold us in thrall.

Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on...

"He constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale." --New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant describer of events." --Washington Post

"No one can equal his talent for making military electronics and engineering intelligible and exciting....He remains the best!" --Houston Chronicle

"Flawless...frighteningly genuine." --The Wall Street Journal

"Remarkable...intricate and nerve tingling." --Clive Cussler

"Gripping narrative...Navy buffs and thriller adepts have been mesmerized." --Time

FROM THE CRITICS

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Conceived before the author, an insurance agent, had ever set foot on a submarine, it is "a tremendously enjoyable and gripping novel of naval derring-do," according to Washington Post Book World critic Reid Beddow. The book contains descriptions of high-tech military hardware so advanced that former Navy Secretary John Lehman, quoted in Time, joked that he "would have had [Clancy] court- martialed: the book revealed that much that had been classified about antisubmarine warfare. Of course, nobody for a moment suspected him of getting access to classified information." The details were actually based on unclassified books and naval documents, Clancy's interviews with submariners, and his own educated guesses, the author asserts. Admitting that "neither characterization nor dialogue are strong weapons in Clancy's literary arsenal," Richard Setlowe in the Los Angeles Times Book Review nonetheless expressed an opinion shared by other reviewers: "At his best, Clancy has a terrific talent for taking the arcana of U.S. and Soviet submarine warfare, the subtleties of sonar and the techno-babble of nuclear power plants and transforming them into taut drama."

John R. Alden - The Wall Street Journal

The plot is coherent, the reading easy and the matrix of encompassing detail almost frighteningly genuine. Mr. Clancy has done a terrific job describing the deadly cat—and—mouse game played by submariners.

Reid Beddow - The Washington Post

Breathlessly exciting￯﾿ﾽ.It may be the most satisfactory novel of a sea chase since C.F. Forester perfected the form.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

A damn good novel￯﾿ﾽ.The technical aspects are covered in a way which is rare in the modern novel. — (John Moore, Captain, RN (Ret.) Editor, Jane's Fighting Ships)

Red October is first—rate by any standards. A superb example of a highly technical thriller which also contains a superb story. I couldn't put it down. — (Jack Higgins, author of The Eagle Has Landed and Exocet)

This highly charged, fast—paced novel has a ring of authenticity that I haven't encountered in a book for some time. — (Edward L. Beach, Captain, USN (Ret.), author of Run Silent, Run Deep)

An action—packed, suspenseful story that's fun to read. — (Stansfield Turner, Admiral, USN (Ret.) Former CIA Director)

The detailed research into the world of the nuclear submarine is so believable that I expect this unique thriller to be an instant best seller in the Kremlin. — (Joseph Wambaugh, author of The Blue Knight and Lines and Shadows)