Uc Hunt for Red October (Paperback)

from Choccy

"Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading West. The Americans want her. The Soviet want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on...." Ah, one of my favorite authors of all time. The incredible Mr. Clancy. I l...

from Mendoza

As someone who grew up during the cold war I appreciate the suspense and dread of the possibilities of this novel - at the time it was written. Clancy singlhandedly made me grow to enjoy the whole military government espionage genre. The Hunt For Red October is one of my favourite. Somewhere unde...

from AresofAmbition

Captain Marko Ramius, the most brilliant commander of the Soviet Navy has made a fateful decision: he orders the Red October, the largest and most powerful submarine in the world with the power to wipe out hundreds of cities at once before silently submerging beneath the water without a trace, on...

from csayban

I was 12 years old, living at the height of the Cold War in 1984 and The Hunt for Red October hit me like a lightning bolt. I hadn't read anything like it - in fact, nobody had. What can you say about a book and an author who single-handedly invented a genre - the techno-thriller - and became one...

from mtinsley

This was truly an excellent book. Like all the Clancy novels, it has the perfect mix of tension, action, politics, and heavy detail that I thoroughly enjoy reading. The Hunt for Red October is a novel written from Clancy's basic structure of Jack Ryan. A man who, "lives on the edge," who doesn't ...