The Hunt for Red October
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Publisher Description
Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski!
The #1 New York Times bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Tom Clancy—a gripping military thriller that introduced the world to his unforgettable hero, Jack Ryan—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Somewhere under the freezing 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. The chase for the highly advanced nuclear submarine is on—and there’s only one man who can find her...
Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when covert photographs of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers—a game that could end in all-out war.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The Hunt for Red October stands at the highest summit of the techno-thriller genre. Tom Clancy’s mechanical know-how and relatable characters made his debut an instant Cold War classic when it was published in 1984—and they’re why the book holds up decades later. In this code-orange game of Battleship, everyman CIA agent Jack Ryan hitches a ride on a state-of-the-art American sub to search for a defecting Soviet captain. John Krasinski brings the action hero’s uncanny instincts and unflappable calm to life in TV’s Jack Ryan series, but this tightly-plotted thrill ride remains the best place to get to know the character.
Customer Reviews
Excellent read
Rattling good tale! Excellent and compulsive read, hard to put down.
Clancy's Best
Red October is Clancy's first, and in my opinion, still his best. If all you know is the Alec Baldwin movie, you are missing out. While the movie was also great, the book, as you might expect, offers so much more. And unlike some of Clancy's larger and more complex novels, Red October has nearly no lulls in the action. I have read it five or six times and it seems to get better each time.