Don’t Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski!The #1 New York Times bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Tom Clancy—a gripping military thriller that introduced the world to his unforgettable hero, Jack Ryan—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander … Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. The chase for the highly advanced nuclear submarine is on—and there’s only one man who can find her…
Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when covert photographs of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers—a game that could end in all-out war.
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More complex than the movie.
I read this book years ago and then, of course, saw the movie. And now I’m reading the book again. Just can’t get enough of it. It’s fantastic ! ! !
This is an excellent book.
The characters are terrific, from both sides, and the writing style is wonderful. Tom Clancy certainly had a talent for “keeping the pressure on” in this, and all his books.
The heroes were definitely heroic, and even the “bad guys” were human, just on a different side than ours. And Red October’s captain was, in fact, heroic in his way and with his intentions.
I agree with then-President Reagan’s assessment of the book, and strong;y recommend it to everyone who has lived through the cold war period and into today’s uncertain times. A book of interest forever!
This is the original “mil-techno-thriller” that created the entire genre, and remains the benchmark to which all others of this sort compare. Even with all that, it is still today a remarkable adventure, and stands up to repeated re-readings.
A lot better than the movie!
Reagan was right! This is a great book. It’s way better than the movie, which was good.
Use a map of the Atlantic and follow the courses of the various ships in this book. It is really fun to see the movements on paper and even more fun to read this excellent book.
very realistic and a great story. You could almost feel yourself doing something like that, One of my favorite books!
For best result ( and I am not kidding) read this entire book in the bathtub
I read this in the 80’s – I could not put it down and finished itvat 5:00 AM
awesome
The movie by the same name did NOT do the story any justice. The book was exciting. Great story. Loved it
I read this book when it was first published and couldn’t put it down to even sleep! I actually feared that the government would investigate Tom, and they did! When the movie came out, I was disappointed…but then, how could anyone truly recreate what was written?
Good reading.
This was the First Tom Clancey novels I read. I saw the movie first with Alec Baldwin an just knew I had to have the book! The entire Jack Ryan series is well worth the time!
This book is awesome and many more people should read about it or read this book.
After I saw the movie for this book I decided to read it. Usually I read the book first and then I may or may not see the movie. I was hooked from the first page, and became a fan of Tom Clancy. Strong writing and great plots with an engaging hero, Jack Ryan.
Tom Clancy’s first novel and, for me, by far his BEST. The movie based on the book is also the best adaptation of a Clancy novel. I think the young Alec Baldwin captured the essence of Clancy’s Jack Ryan character much better than later movies which tried to turn Ryan into an action hero.
Great book. Extremely well written
What a first book. Wow.