num_pages: 387
description: This is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy’s phenomenal career. A military thriller so gripping in its action and so convincing in its accuracy it’s rumored that the White House debriefed the author. The theme: the greatest espionage coup in history. The story: the chase for a top secret Russian missile sub. Lauded by the Washington Post as “breathlessly exciting,” The Hunt for Red October remains a masterpiece of military fiction by one of the world’s most popular authors, a man whose shockingly realistic scenarios continue to hold us in thrall.A race between the Soviet and American fleets to find an errant Russian submarine.
language: English
title: The Hunt for Red October
titlecomplete: The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4)
characters: Viktor Alexievich Tupolev, Alexei Arbatov, Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius, Jack Ryan Sr*, Oliver Wendell Tyler, Ivan Yurievich Putin, Ronald Jones, Dr. Cathy Ryan, Bartolomeo Vito Mancuso, Charles Davenport, Valintin Bugayev
genres: Espionage, Adventure, Military Fiction, War, Suspense, Thriller, Action, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 369750
places: Atlantic Ocean, Moscow, Washington, D.C., London, England
series: Jack Ryan Universe (Publication Order), Jack Ryan Universe, Jack Ryan
publisher: Naval Institute Press