"The Hunt for the Red October is a tense and suspenseful book. It stars Captain Marko Ramius, a senior Lithuanian submariner and captain of the Soviet Unions' newest submarine: The Red October. Red October, boasting a revolutionary new propulsion system, allowing it to travel silently, is capable of being used to devastating effectiveness in a Nuclear War. Knowing this, and due to his own past with the Soviets, Marko secretly kills the Political officer on board, burns his orders, and steams towards New York.
The Soviet Premier, being informed of the treachery through a letter sent by Ramius to a senior Soviet official, orders a full search for the submarine. Meanwhile, a CIA agent tasked with investigating the Soviet Sub, begins to suspect that Ramius may be defecting to the United States, and is ordered to join up with a Naval task force and search for the sub.
As the combined might of the Soviet and American Naval and Air Forces search for the submarine, a crew member detects Ramius' defection, and the hunt is on.
The book itself, in the Clancy fashion, is a technological era military drama. It tells an epic story of deception, betrayal, and throws in a few epic explosions and battles for good measure. All in all, the book is quite worth the read."
"I have an argument as to why in this case the movie was better than the book. The book is entertaining. I mean, the writing is ungainly, and you get the feeling that there's not much more there than what you get in the first pass. But it's certainly entertaining, and I didn't put it down until I was finished with it. So on the scale of books: good, by no means great. The movie on the other hand is pretty awesome as far as flicks of that sort goes. Dark, brooding, spooky... So the movie ranks higher compared to other movies than the book does compared to other books. I think that means we can safely say the movie was better, but I'm not sure."
"My husband was a submariner and this book rang true from start to finish. We both read this book many years ago, even prior to the movie, and were amazed at the knowledge Clancy had of the US Navy sub force. It is well researched and given the time frame in which it is set, entirely plausible. After living life with the military in a time when you only knew what the Navy thought you had a "need to know", it was relatively easy to imagine that the premise this story is built on could actually have happened. Tom Clancy weaves a great page-turner full of intrigue and action and it is a book that is very hard to put down. This was one of his earlier books and is a well-crafted story. Clancy does tremendous research on all of his books, but I do feel his later books are more about information and less about fictional stories. Maybe because it was the first book of his that I read and echoed my personal life, but this is my favorite of his books."
"This book was so intense that after I finished reading it, I dreamed of chasing submarines all night. This was the first book I've ever read by Tom Clancy and I now highly respect his ability to write. He obviously did excellent research of military maneuvers during the Cold War because you could easily believe this is a true story. Even though this was the first book I have read by Tom Clancy, it will probably be the last one I read. I would highly recommend this book except for the foul language he puts into the story. It was too much for me, so I don't think I'll read anything else by him. If you're not a fan of crude language, I wouldn't recommend this book for you. It's too bad because he's an excellent writer otherwise."
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