The Hunt for Red October

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Summary: Revenge
Review: Revenge is the retaliation for an injury or wrong. Revenge affects men both physically and emotionally. It can cause momentary insanity and an adrenaline rage that could easily kill another human being. Add revenge to any book or story and this strong emotion can make for a prima narration. Throw-in, along with revenge, communism, the CIA, submarines, and a possible nuclear war and the book can become quite interesting. I enjoyed The Hunt For Red October. It was exciting and had my attention after every page. The realism was such that it very possibly could have been a true story.
Ramius is a Russian submarine commander and a big part of the Rodina or motherland. He was the son of an important Communist Party leader, who did not spend much time with him. He was raised by his grandmother and a fisherman, who was a retired Soviet Naval Commander. Ramius learned how to be a great seamen and spent days on the water. His grandmother also taught him to be an honorable and honest man. Ramius's wife, Natalia, was killed after a sloppy, drunken, uncredited Party doctor tried to remove an inflamed appendix. Ramius blamed the whole Communist Party for her death, and bought his time til his revenge would be taken. As Ramius came up through the Russian Navy, he earned himself much acclaim, and the trust of many men. When the time came for his swift revenge this trust made it even easier. He was chosen to test the newest in Russian sub technology, the Red October. He chose a crew that he had prior worked with and trusted. The Party also sent along an intelligence officer, who did not really have a purpose but to tell the heads of the Party if anything goes wrong. Captain Putin, the intelligence officer, is murdered by Ramius. The killing is made to look like an accident, not that anyone really missed Captain Putin. Ramius then cues the crew in on his plan to take the Red October to Cuba without being detected by neither the Americans nor the Russians.
CIA agent, Jack Ryan who is living in Morrow England with his family, gets called back to the USA to work closely with the Navy investigating the sudden deployment of all Russian Naval vessels. After two days at sea the Communist Party realized that Ramius and the Red October had left the training area and were frantically searching for them.
The sudden surge in Russian ship movement alarmed the Navy and crew of the USS Dallas who was patrolling near by. The US Navy scrambles to protect the eastern coast and bespeak the aid of Her Majesty's Navy. Jack Ryan is a friend to the English captain. Ryan is used to get good relations with the English ships in the area. Ryan has seen all the information on the Red October and knows its differentiated but can not figure out why. He sends the top secret Intel to a friend, who finds the Red October has an advanced propulsion system that makes the sub almost silent. The new propulsion system is nearly impossible to hear. The USS Dallas heard a very faint sound and shrugged it off as sea life. When they heard about the Red October, the Dallas went back and began to track the sound and then the Red October.
Captain Ramius was on the run with the most high tech submarine ever. the USA know where he is, but can not risk the political melt down that may occur between Russia. Russia is frantically trying to get their sub back without making too much of a splash. You can read the book to find out the rest.
As I said before I really enjoyed this whole book. All the separate plots twisted and turned to the point where some of them made no sense. But by the end the twists and turns threaded into a beautiful 15th century tapestry. The story used so many technical terms and processes dealing with submarines the reader can not help but think the story is true. The characters are in-depth and realistic. Clancy goes the extra mile when describing a character. This book was exciting and suspenseful. Throughout the whole book I never knew if things were going to turn for the better or head straight downhill. I strongly recommend this book to any reader.

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Summary: Clancy's First and Best Book
Review: The Hunt For Red October is a great book. If you haven't read this book or you've seen (and liked the movie), you'll love it. One of the books that is on my top 5 list.

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Summary: ... review
Review: I chose this because Tom Clancy is my favorite author. This book is about a Russian submarine. My favorite character is Jack Ryan because he is the good guy. My favorite part is when a enemy agent tries to sabotage the sub

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Summary: Outstanding, Clancy's best!
Review: This could happen.

These three words describe why I like Tom Clancy's work, at least up until the final chapters of 'Debt of Honor'. Clancy has a way of creating these great events and making them believable. So much so, that one may find himself (or herself) expecting an update on the evening news. This is certainly the case with Red October. Everything, from the technical descriptions of tactics and equipment to the plot, was thoroughly entertaining and came together to weave a tremendous tale of espionage.

The story of an ordinary man (Ryan), shoved into harm's way and CIA field operations--simply because he knows more about Marko Ramius than anyone else--is great. And Ramius's story--that of the disenchanted military commander--is also one worth reading. Character development is not one of Clancy's strengths, but the characters in this book have some emotional depth and are very believable; the best Clancy has ever written (with the possible exception of John Clark in 'Without Remorse').

One other thing that people may appreciate is that you don't have to plow through 900 pages to get through this book, Clancy gets to the point right away and the action and intrigue never let up. It is thoroughly entertaining, and far shorter than some of Clancy's later work. This is a great story, and should satisfy both casual readers and techno-geeks alike.

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Summary: quite suspensful
Review: Taking place in the early 1980's at the height of the cold war, Marko Rmaius in charge of A missle Submarine Called Red October has been built with a new drive system that makes her near impossible to detect. Ultimately, Red October could sneak up to within 90 miles of the United States and launch over 200 nuclear warheads on Washington D.C. and New York City. This causes some concern so, Jack Ryan, living in England for the last year, goes over to the CIA to pay Admiral Greer a visit and along the way learns that Marko Ramius is trying to defect to the United States. The Americans want that sub, and the soviet fleet wants the sub destroyed. What happens then is a chess game between the two sides. Will the Russians find her and sink the sub? Will the Americans get their hands on it? Read the book and find out! If you have seen the movie you know how it turns out. The movie was good, but the book is ALOT better. Action, Drama, and Suspense! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!

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Summary: The best Tom Clancy book.
Review: The Hunt for Red October is a Jack Ryan novel about a commander of a Russian submarine(Ramius) during the cold war who decides to defect of his home country. Jack Ryan is a submarine expert who works for the CIA and is trying to find out where he is and what he is doing. This book is a fast paced adventure about the defferences between the United States and Russia through Jack Ryan and Capt. Ramius. Jack has a long history of military and writing experience. He wrote a number of books on submarine tactics. Ramius has a long history of commanding submarines. He has always been loyal to his home country until now. He is on a top secret mission, and not even the comrades that knows whats going on does not. I think this is a very good book that shows what the cold war was like.

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Summary: WOW!!...
Review: I Just finished this book yesterday. At first I didn't think it was going to be as good as the movie. Man was I wrong. This was a book full of cool charecters and incredible locals. If your not a Clancy fan read this but after the prequil Patriot Games. If you are I recommend to buy this one and read it twice. I know I will.

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Summary: The Hunt for Red Octobre
Review: Most people first impression of The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy is that it is just another submarine story. But it is just the opposite of that. it is an exiting epic full of adventure and suspense.
Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, discovers that a new stealth soviet missile submarine is missing. Jack needs to figure out where the submarine is and why the entire soviet fleet has been deployed to look for it. But while Jack tries to figure out where the submarine is and why his family life suffers.
One night when Jack gets home for work he smells food. he walks into the kitchen and finds a plate of food, burnt out candles and his wife asleep on the couch. Jack remembers that he broke his promise. Cathy plays a significant part in the story but is not near as important to the story as Jack Ryan.
Along with Jacks point of view you get the story from the leader of the Soviet intelligence agency the KGB. You get to learn why the Soviets are hunting ther own submarine and why.
One night when Jack was in the office late the DDI Admiral Greer, walks in and hands jack a cassette tape. Jack listens to 3 or four times. on his fourth time listening to it he hears a faint swishing sound. He decided it sounded like it was water going through a pump.
Could this be the Soviet missile submarine? How does it move so silently? Why is it so close to the American mainland? You are going to have to read the book to find out.
The Hunt for Red October will keep anyone that reads it occupied for hours. It is a thriller that you do not want to put down.

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Summary: The Largest Hunt for an Invisible Sub
Review: This realistic adventure hooks you from the very beginning to the end. While your not reading the book your thinking about future battles or the next idea Jack Ryan has to capture the typhon sub. The reader will be hooked tell the climatic ending.

This adventure is about a rouge solviet typhon sub with stealth capability, that was taken over by highly honored solviet officers, and Ramius the sapient sub master that trained the whole solviet sub fleet. While the duantless Jack Ryan and the C.I.A. are trying to figure out what the thing is, the solviets are trying to manipulate the americans to belive tha whole solviet fleet movment is just a big search and rescue. But the americans are smart, and they find out that there is a stealth sub in the sea that will defect. Then the race begins.

Tom Clancy is belived to have been briefed by the White House about this possible reality. If you are an adventure seeker and you want to read a book that will keep you awake all night, I would read The Hunt for the Red October.

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Summary: red october in a nutshell
Review: The Hunt for Red October

This is the second Tom Clancy book that I've read. My first was Red storm Rising and from there I was hooked. I just finished The Hunt for Red October and am just starting Rainbow Six. So far I have yet to be disappointed and I don't think I will.
In this techno-triller, the Russians and the Americans go head to head in a post cold war race to get to a defunct Marco Ramius. But they don't want him; they want the new class of sub that he has, an undetectable nuclear sub. Ramius was fed up with the Russian Communists when a drunken doctor during a procedure killed his wife. So he and some other high-ranking officials take the boat for an exercise but plan to defect to the US. This is when "the franchise" of the book, Jack Ryan comes in to hunt him down before the Rusky's blow him out of the water. This was a memorable book but honestly I must say the book was a little long and boring and the movie defiantly dominated. Some would say that the book had more to offer than the book and in some respects I can agree. But over-all I have to say that the movie was much more exciting and the character selection for the movie was excellent.
I am very pleased with Clancy's books. Red Storm Rising was a great book and Red October was also very good but I was more impressed with the movie. Over all I must say that Clancy is the man when it comes to spine-tingling books that leave you on the edge of your seat throughout the whole book. Keep it up man.

Book Rating: 4 out of 5