description: A deadly serious game of hide-and-seek is on. 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. If the U.S. 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. The rousing climax is one of the most thrilling underwater scenes ever written.
language: English
title: The Hunt for Red October
titlecomplete: The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
characters: Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius, Valintin Bugayev, Viktor Alexievich Tupolev, Jack Ryan Sr*, Alexei Arbatov, Charles Davenport, Ivan Yurievich Putin, Bartolomeo Vito Mancuso, Ronald Jones, Oliver Wendell Tyler, Dr. Cathy Ryan
genres: Thriller, Espionage, Military Fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Action, Adventure, Fiction, War, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 369684
places: Moscow, Atlantic Ocean, London, England, Washington, D.C.
series: Jack Ryan Universe, Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan Universe (Publication Order)
publisher: HarperCollins