The Hunt for Red October is Tom Clancy's first book. After President Reagan said that it was "the perfect yarn" and "non-put-downable" the book became the Times number one best selling book. Captain Marko Ramius is the model of a Russian patriot and is considered the best sub captain in all of Russia. He has trained many of the best sub skippers in the U.S.S.R. Ramius has been selected to take out the new high tech silent Russian missile sub, the RED OCTOBER. However, there is one problem: Ramius hates the Soviet Union and wants out. He and the officers of the RED OCTOBER attempt to defect to the US. Meanwhile the USS Dallas and its sonar man, Jones, notice strange sounds. They discover that it is an unknown soviet sub. In Washington they notice that every soviet sub and surface ship are heading towards the US and the Atlantic. When they find out that the USS Dallas is following an unknown soviet sub Jack Ryan develops a plan how to get the sub without the Russians knowing it. And the most incredible chase in history is on . . .
|
The Books
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
