The Hunt for Red October
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| Author | Tom Clancy |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jack Ryan universe |
| Genre | Techno-thriller |
| Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
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1984 (1st edition) |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 387 p. (first, hardback edition) |
| ISBN | (first, hardback edition) |
| OCLC | 11044981 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.L245 H8 1984 |
| Preceded by | Red Rabbit (chronologically) |
| Followed by | The Cardinal of the Kremlin (chronologically) |
The Hunt for Red October was Tom Clancy's 1984 debut novel. The story follows a CIA analyst who leads a group of US Navy officers to take possession of a cutting-edge Soviet nuclear submarine from 26 defecting Soviet officers, and the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and Jack Ryan, a Marine turned CIA analyst. It was loosely inspired by the mutiny on the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy in 1975.
The novel was originally published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press—one of the first fictional works it ever published, and still its most successful.
During the Cold War, Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, a Lithuanian submarine commander in the Soviet Navy, intends to defect to the United States with his officers on board the experimental nuclear submarine Red October, a Typhoon-class vessel equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system that makes audio detection by passive sonar extremely difficult. The result is a strategic weapon platform that is capable of sneaking its way into American waters and launching nuclear missiles with little or no warning.
The strategic value of Red October was not lost upon Ramius, but other factors have spurred his decision to defect. His wife, Natalia, died at the hands of a doctor who was incompetent and intoxicated; however, the doctor escaped punishment because he was the son of a Politburo member. Natalia's untimely death, combined with Ramius's long-standing dissatisfaction with the callousness of Soviet rule and his fear of Red October's destabilizing effect on world affairs, exhausts his tolerance for the failings of the Soviet system.
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