The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy Reviews

AUTHOR: The Author for this book is Tom Clancy and this is the 1st book written in the Ryan series but the fourth in the actual story (although Without Remorse does not mention Jack Ryan him self but one of the support characters). Order of the Ryan Series is as follows as published by Clancy: The Hunt for Red ...

This book was a completely random purchase. The other week we were going on holiday to France, which involved a 6 hour ferry crossing from Portsmouth to Cherbourg. I like reading, and so thought I would take a good book on board with me, as I would have plenty of time to read it. however I left it (Hannibal) in the car, so was forced to go to the ...

With this book Tom Clancy started he's very succesful writer career. Here we meet Jack Ryan, who'll be the protagonist of many adventures till become U.S.A. president. At that time Ryan was a simple CIA analyst, but he's already very able. The story begin when a new U.R.S.S. nuclear-powered submarine disappears. It has a new ...

Red October is probably one of Clancy's best novels, and if you have seen the film, you should know the plot by now, but a Russian commander is planning to defect with the Russian Navy's coexistent nuclear submarine. Russia mounts a massive 'scrutiny', in order to destroy the submarine, America thinks Russia is trying to start ...

Now don't misunderstand me: this is a very entertaining book and, like a lot of thrillers, is better than the film because it goes into more detail. Alas it also comes across a bit too much as anti-Russian propaganda with virtually no opportunity spared to have a dig at them. More of this later, for now the basic plot Captain Ramius ...

~ ~ “The Hunt for Red October” was the first novel from master story teller Tom Clancy, published in 1984. It seems incredible that it is now seventeen years since we were introduced to the character of Jack Ryan, now played so well in the films of the books by actor Harrison Ford. Clancy is one of those authors who everyone ...

The first Jack Ryan book! Clancy introduced the character of Jack Ryan with this book and immediately set the standard for techno-thrillers! One of Russia's most decorated captains is put in charge of their newest weapons, a Nuclear submarine (The Red October) with a "silent drive". A way of propelling the submarine through ...

The first book in the Jack Ryan series, there's another eight after this. Marko Ramius, the captain of the Russian missle submarine, Red October, and his loyal officers choose to defect to the USA, with the Soviet Union's most advanced submarine ever, the only problem is, the Russians want it back. It is upto Jack Ryan ...

The Hunt for Red October is the story of a russian submarine, The Red October, whose captain and main officers want to defect to the United States. The submarine has a new secret drive system called the caterpillar which is very hard to hear and so this submarine is impossible to track or find. They set off trying to reach the East Coast without ...

This is really the starting point of Clancy's hero Jack Ryan. Although he is in Patriot games in this book his inviolvement of with the CIA really starts to roll along the story concerns itself with the defection of a russian submarine due to the death of the submarine commanders wife amongst other reasons. Ryan the "back room boy" ...

'The Hunt for Red October' is one of the earliest Clancy novels to feature CIA agent Jack Ryan, and not so long as some of the more recent tomes! If you can get the film version out of your head (remember Sean Connery as the Soviet captain with a Scottish accent?) 'Red October' is an enjoyable cold war novel. Clancy's writing ...

'The Hunt For Red October' is without a doubt one of the most intriguing adventure stories that I have ever read. The plot involves a Russian nuclear submarine captain who defects, with the boat, to the USA during the height of the cold war. I had seen the movie before reading the book and was surprised at just how much more complex ...

A book turned into a great film. This is a great book. Tom Clancy scores a hit with this realistic and exciting book. It is about a CIA analyst who finds out that a Russian nuclear missile submarine, Red October, is defecting to the US. Almost the entire Soviet Navy is trying to find the Red October, but they can't. That is because it is ...

This book is one that just to me says classic I mean it is so great. I love the way that the book is presented to the reader placing the reader in the room with the characters as if he or she was one of them. This book is so great it isn't like other books of this type. I mean most other military books are boring but this book keeps you on ...

Russia's newest Typhoon-class nuclear missile submarine the Red October, equipped with a silent Propulsion system, sets sail from Murmansk. Meanwhile a mysterious letter is sent from the captain of the Red October, Marko Ramius, to the Chief Political officer of the Soviet Navy. Ramius has made a fateful decision, the Red October is heading ...