The Hunt for Red October
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1441850546 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book helped influence me into becoming a submariner When I joined the U.S. Navy this was the first book that I read when I completed Bootcamp. As a result of reading Hunt for Red October, I signed up for submarine duty. It is not an understatement for me to say that this story changed my life. I have never regretted the decision to join subs.As for the. WHAT A HUNT! William Lotz This novel, though published in 1984, can still be applied to events happening today. Russia is still a major enemy. Its nave, including its submarine fleet, is still very formidable. The of a famous admiral, taking his submarine toward the northeast coast of America, to present it to the President of. Adventure on the high tech seas If your soul yearns for adventure on the high seas, and you love the excitement of Cold War military tensions boiling over this is the book for you. Even if you just like all things navy and submarine you will get a great deal of enjoyment out of reading this book. Clancy does a great job of being acc
If the U.S. A deadly serious game of hide-and-seek is on. The rousing climax is one of the most thrilling underwater scenes ever written.. The CIA's brilliant young analyst, Jack Ryan, thinks he knows the reason for the sudden Red Fleet operation: the Soviets' most valuable ship, the Red October, is attempting to defect to the United States.The new ballistic-missile submarine's defection is high treason on an unprecedented scale and nearly the entire Soviet Atlantic Fleet has been ordered to find and destroy her at all costs. fleet can locate her first and get her safely to port, it will be the intelligence coup of all time.The nerve-wracking hunt goes on for eighteen days as the Red October tries to elude her hunters across 4000 miles of ocean
Its story: the chase for a runaway top secret Russian missile sub. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. A military thriller so accurate and convincing that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House. . And the most incredible chase in history is on.The Hunt for Red October is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. Its theme: the greatest espionage coup in history