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Author | Tom Clancy |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
August 7, 1986 | |
Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
Pages | 656 |
ISBN | 0399131493 |
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Red Storm Rising is a war novel, written by Tom Clancy and co-written with Larry Bond, and released on August 7, 1986. Set in the mid-1980s, it features a Third World War between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact forces, and is unique for depicting the conflict as being fought exclusively with conventional weapons, rather than escalating to the use of weapons of mass destruction or nuclear warfare. It is one of two Clancy novels, including SSN (1996), that are not set in the Ryanverse.
The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list.[1] It eventually lent its name to game development company Red Storm Entertainment, which Clancy co-founded in 1997.
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Plot summary[edit]
In 1988, Islamic terrorists from Azerbaijan destroy an oil production refinery in Nizhnevartovsk, threatening to cripple the Soviet Union's economy due to oil shortages. After much deliberation, the Soviet Politburo decides to seize the Persian Gulf by military force in order to recoup the country's oil losses. Knowing that the United States had pledged to defend the oil-producing countries in the Persian Gulf, the Soviets decide that eliminating NATO is a necessary first step before its military operation can take place.
To divert attention from the impending operation, the Politburo embarks upon an elaborate maskirovka to disguise both their predicament and their intentions. The Soviets publicly declare their arms reduction proposal to scrap their obsolete submarines. The KGB then carries out a false flag operation involving a bomb being detonated in a Kremlin building, framing a KGB sleeper agent as a West German BND spy involved in the incident. The Politburo publicly denounces the West German government and calls for retaliation. With Germany neutralized and occupied, the Soviets believe that the United States would not move to rescue the Arab states since it could meet its oil needs from the Western Hemisphere alone.
Even though a planned attack on a NATO communications facility in Lammersdorf was compromised when a Spetsnaz officer was arrested, the Soviets push through with their advance operations in Germany. However, they suffer reverses on the first night of the war, when NATO stealth and fighter-bomber aircraft achieve air superiority over Eastern Europe by eliminating Soviet AWACS and fighter aircraft, as well as bombing many key bridges that much of the Soviet Army has yet to cross.
Nevertheless, the Soviet Navy achieves an advantage by occupying Iceland, taking control of the NATO airbase in Keflavík and ensuring command of the strategically important GIUK gap. U.S. Air Force lieutenant Mike Edwards escapes the attack and hides behind enemy lines, serving as a watchdog for Allied forces in Scotland. The Soviet Navy also attack several resupply convoys from North America as well as a NATO carrier battle group in the North Atlantic, causing severe losses to the other side. Meanwhile, the Soviet Air Force engage in a fierce air battle over Norway and later secure a rocket launch site there, bringing key NATO radar and air stations in nearby Scotland within range of sustained air attack.
After much difficulty in occupying West Germany, the Soviet Army, led by General-Colonel Pavel Alekseyev, score a breakthrough in a tank battle over Alfeld, threatening to proceed east of Weser River without heavy resistance from NATO forces. Meanwhile, a naval attack on Soviet bomber bases with cruise missiles launched by NATO submarines paves the way for an amphibious assault on Iceland, retaking the island and effectively closing the Atlantic to Soviet forces. While Edwards is rescued by the Royal Marines, a Soviet prisoner in the island reveals the true cause of the war, narrowing down bombing priorities to the Soviet Army's forward fuel depots and immobilizing the Soviet formations.
In Moscow, the desperate Politburo considers deploying nuclear weapons to stave off defeat. This infuriates Alekseyev, who had been mobilizing for a final counterattack on Germany but faces execution by the Soviet government for its slow timetable. He later takes part in a coup d'etat orchestrated by the KGB in the Kremlin, arresting the Soviet ministers and establishing a troika to temporarily preside over the country. The new Soviet government then negotiates for a ceasefire with NATO and a return to status quo ante bellum, effectively ending the conflict.
Characters[edit]
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization[edit]
- Edward Morris: Commanding officer of USS Pharris and later USS Reuben James
- Daniel X. McCafferty: Commanding officer of Los Angeles-class submarine USS Chicago
- Robert A. Toland III: NSA analyst and naval reservist, later promoted to commander in the United States Navy Reserve. Widely regarded[by whom?] as a stand-in for Clancy fictional character Jack Ryan.
- Michael D. Edwards, Jr.: First lieutenant in the United States Air Force serving as a meteorological officer in the Keflavík Air Base in Iceland. Leads intelligence gathering there during the Soviet occupation of the island with the code name of 'Beagle', later receiving a Navy Cross for his bravery.
- Jerry O'Malley: Lieutenant commander in the USN serving as a helicopter pilot aboard Reuben James
- Amelia 'Buns' Nakamura: F-15C pilot for the USAF who becomes the first American female fighter ace by shooting down three Tu-16 Badger bombers while on ferry duty and later using ASM-135 anti-satellite missiles to destroy at least two Soviet naval radar reconnaissance satellites. She also becomes the first Space Ace because of her satellite shoot-downs.
- Terry Mackall: Sergeant First Class in the United States Army serving as an M1 Abrams tank commander in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment on the German front
- Colonel Douglas 'Duke' Ellington: USAF officer and commander of the F-19 Stealth squadron
- Charles DeWinter 'Chuck' Lowe: Colonel in the United States Marine Corps working for the U.S. CINCLANT
- General Eugene Robinson: Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic
The Soviets[edit]
- Pavel Leonidovich Alekseyev: Deputy Commander of the Southwest Front and then Commander in Chief-Western Theater after briefly serving as second in command. After the coup, he is made Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces.
- Mikhail Eduardovich Sergetov: Energy Minister and non-voting member of the Soviet Politburo. After the coup, he becomes acting General Secretary.
- Ivan Mikhailovich Sergetov: Alekseyev's aide-de-camp and Sergetov's son. Promoted to major during the war.
- Major Arkady Semyonovich Sorokin: Soviet paratroop officer whose daughter Svetlana dies in the Kremlin bombing. Later recruited by Alekseyev for the coup.
- Boris Georgiyevich Kosov: Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB). Masterminded the coup, only to be killed in revenge by Sorokin.
- Marshal Andre Shavyrin: Chief of the General Staff. Later executed by the Politburo for failing to bring favorable results on the war.
- Marshal Yuri Rozhkov: Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces. Executed along with Marshal Shavyrin.
- Andre Chernyavin: Spetsnaz officer assigned to sabotage the NATO command post at Lammersdorf
Other characters[edit]
- Vigdis Agustdottir: Icelandic civilian rescued by Edwards from Russian rapists in Iceland
- William Calloway: British Reuters correspondent and SIS agent
- Patrick Flynn: Associated Press Moscow Bureau chief
- Ibrahim Tolkaze: Islamic terrorist of Azerbaijani descent working as an oil field engineer. He and his confederates Rasul and Mohammet instigate the war by infiltrating the oil refinery where Ibrahim works, murdering multiple technicians and triggering a truck crash that sets the entire refinery ablaze. But none of them survive once security forces storm the control room.
- Gerhardt Falken: Alleged West German agent behind the Kremlin bombing
Allegiances of nations involved in the war described in the book.
Themes[edit]
Red Storm Rising depicts a future Third World War, chiefly between the United States and the Soviet Union. It follows the 'future war' genre popularized by the 1871 novellaThe Battle of Dorking by George Tomkyns Chesney as well as the science fiction novel The War in the Air (1908) by H.G. Wells. However, the novel is unique in that it presented a war using conventional weapons rather than nuclear weaponry that was typical with fiction dealing with an East-West confrontation at the time, which was deemed 'apocalyptic in tone'.
The book served as a cautionary tale advocating the defense buildup during the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. According to a document released by the UK National Archives in December 2015, U.S. President Ronald Reagan had recommended Red Storm Rising to UK Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher shortly after the Reykjavík Summit in 1986 between him and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev so as to gain an understanding of the Soviet Union's intentions and strategy.[2] Some of the advanced weapons systems described in the novel were deployed four years later in the Gulf War.[3]
Development[edit]
Tom Clancy met Larry Bond in 1982. Clancy had purchased Bond's wargameHarpoon as a primary source for his future novel The Hunt for Red October (1984).[4] They used the board game's second edition miniature rules to test key battle sequences, notably the Soviet operation to seize Iceland and the attack on the carrier battle group in the 'Dance of the Vampires' chapter, with Bond refereeing the game sessions, which typically involved several players on each side (Clancy among them) acting in various roles.[5]
The two discussed Convoy-84, a wargame Bond had been working on at the time that featured a new Battle of the North Atlantic. The idea became the basis for Red Storm Rising, although Clancy is later referred as the sole author. 'I wrote like 1 percent of the book,' remarked Bond. For research on the Politburo scenes, Clancy and Bond interviewed Soviet defector Arkady Shevchenko.[6]
Release[edit]
In 1987, the book was published in French as Tempête Rouge (Red Storm), translated by France-Marie Watkins, with the collaboration of Jean Sabbagh.
Reception[edit]
Like its predecessor 'The Hunt for Red October', the book received critical acclaim for its accurate military narrative. Publishers Weekly praised it as 'fascinating and totally credible story, told with authenticity and great suspense'.[7]Kirkus Reviews hailed it as 'an informative, readable, sometimes dazzling speculation on superpower war'.[8]
Game adaptations[edit]
In December 1988 MicroProse released a Red Storm Rising computer game, in which the player commanded an American submarine against Soviet forces. The player had the option of choosing between both single missions or campaign and which era to play in; modern missions offered the player more advanced submarines and weapons, but also a more technologically advanced adversary as well.
In 1989, TSR, Inc. released the Red Storm Risingboard game designed by Douglas Niles, based on the book. The game won the Origins Award for Best Modern-Day Boardgame and Best Graphic Presentation of a Boardgame in 1989.[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'The New York Times bestseller list for the week of August 17, 1986'(PDF). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^Edwards, Valerie (30 December 2015). 'How Ronald Reagan based his foreign policy on Tom Clancy books: President told Margaret Thatcher to read Red Storm Rising thriller to understand Russia'. The Daily Mail.
- ^Greenberg, Martin H. The Tom Clancy Companion (Revised ed.). pp. 11–17.
- ^Sipe, Russell; Wilson, Johnny; Clancy, Tom; Meier, Sid (July 1988). 'An Interview with Tom Clancy'. Computer Gaming World. pp. 22–24.
- ^'Choreographing the Dance of the Vampires'.
- ^LaGrone, Sam. 'Interview: Larry Bond on Tom Clancy'. USNI News. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^'Book Review: Red Storm Rising 12-Copy Floor Display by Tom Clancy'. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^'RED STORM RISING by Tom Clancy'. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^'Origins Award Winners (1989)'. Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design. Archived from the original on 2007-11-05. Retrieved 2007-10-29.
External links[edit]
- Red Storm Rising at BoardGameGeek
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To offer the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery - a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other - a distraction
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MickiThe last paragraph of the author's note states:
Although Larry's name does not appear on the title page, this book is his as much as mine. We never did…moreThe last paragraph of the author's note states:
Although Larry's name does not appear on the title page, this book is his as much as mine. We never did figure out the division of labor, but what Larry and I accomplished was to complete a book as co-authors when our only contract was a handshake--and have a whole lot of fun doing it! It is for the reader to decide how successful we have been.
I always assumed that it was a 'legal' thing and since a handshake is not a binding contract that Mr. Clancy then proceeded to have the novel published under his contract with G.P. Putnam's Sons. I did notice though when I went to the book to copy the paragraph above, that the Copyright is by Jack Ryan Enterprises Ltd, and Larry Bond.
Also after Mr. Clancy died, Mr. Bond did an interview with USNI News in which he stated:
'I was blathering on about “Convoy” and [Clancy] said, “That would make a good book.” He could see the potential of the story and asked me if I wanted to work on it with him. I was his apprentice, I wrote maybe five sentences of the thing. He would run chapters by me and I would look over particular weapon systems and [how the Russians might react]. If you’re going to apprentice for somebody, apprentice for Tom Clancy for God’s sake. I watched him put the story together. I watched him lay everything out, create the characters, and fix it when it wasn’t working right.'
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Although Larry's name does not appear on the title page, this book is his as much as mine. We never did…moreThe last paragraph of the author's note states:
Although Larry's name does not appear on the title page, this book is his as much as mine. We never did figure out the division of labor, but what Larry and I accomplished was to complete a book as co-authors when our only contract was a handshake--and have a whole lot of fun doing it! It is for the reader to decide how successful we have been.
I always assumed that it was a 'legal' thing and since a handshake is not a binding contract that Mr. Clancy then proceeded to have the novel published under his contract with G.P. Putnam's Sons. I did notice though when I went to the book to copy the paragraph above, that the Copyright is by Jack Ryan Enterprises Ltd, and Larry Bond.
Also after Mr. Clancy died, Mr. Bond did an interview with USNI News in which he stated:
'I was blathering on about “Convoy” and [Clancy] said, “That would make a good book.” He could see the potential of the story and asked me if I wanted to work on it with him. I was his apprentice, I wrote maybe five sentences of the thing. He would run chapters by me and I would look over particular weapon systems and [how the Russians might react]. If you’re going to apprentice for somebody, apprentice for Tom Clancy for God’s sake. I watched him put the story together. I watched him lay everything out, create the characters, and fix it when it wasn’t working right.'
Interview: Larry Bond on Tom Clancy
By: Sam LaGrone
October 8, 2013
https://news.usni.org/2013/10/08/inte...
An even better interview was done by the FP group in which Larry Bond describes in more detail where he thought Tom Clancy found some of his ideas. http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/10/11/t...
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MickiThe reason you aren't seeing this book on any 'Order of Books' list is because this is a stand-alone book. It does not use any of the characters that…moreThe reason you aren't seeing this book on any 'Order of Books' list is because this is a stand-alone book. It does not use any of the characters that Mr. Clancy used in his other books. That being said and the fact that I am a real 'Jack Ryan' and 'John Clark' fan, I do remember this as being an excellent, well told story with a great cast of characters. I am currently reading the 'Jack Ryan Universe' in chronological order by time they happened instead of order by publisher's date. When I am through I also plan on reading Mr. Clancy's stand-alone novels again.(less)
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Nov 15, 2008Joe rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Ah, clancy. If you like his stuff, you'll love this book. If you like the books that he didn't write that have his name on them, you'll probably really like this book.
Few people know that this book was written as part of a competition that clancy had with Stephen King, to see who could write the longest book in a week. Sadly for clancy, King won, but that's only because Clancy took 15 minutes out of the contest to call up the army and ask them the names of some cool guns and planes and stuff. A...more
Few people know that this book was written as part of a competition that clancy had with Stephen King, to see who could write the longest book in a week. Sadly for clancy, King won, but that's only because Clancy took 15 minutes out of the contest to call up the army and ask them the names of some cool guns and planes and stuff. A...more
May 30, 2011Maggie rated it really liked it · review of another edition
My relationship with this book got off to a bad start. I've never known much about or cared much for the Cold War, and while I read of the Russian Politburo plotting a way to seize oil from the Persian Gulf without incurring NATO opposition, I was wiki-ing terms like 'KGB' and 'Kremlin'. Things didn't improve when the Russians failed to break up NATO, World War III started, and I was searching my dictionary for things like 'fighter' and 'carrier'.
But 830 pages gives you a long time to learn, and...more
But 830 pages gives you a long time to learn, and...more
Awful, boring overlong story of war and rape. The only good portion of this novel aside from the victim finding love is the end which should have ocurred one third of the way through this travesty. 2 of 10 stars
Oct 08, 2012Harv Griffin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: own, reviewed
I’m guessing Tom Clancy novels are mostly a “guy thing.” If it’s a Tom Clancy novel I’m probably going to check it out. I’m something of a “Naval Action” freak. I blame the 1943 Lawrence O’Donnell science fiction short story CLASH BY NIGHT, which I read in Junior High, for my fetish. Asimov made me want to read more science fiction; Lawrence made me want more Naval Action!
RED STORM RISING presents a global non-nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia that involves our NATO allies. The first read-...more
I read it once when I was too young to understand many key themes so it was an action thriller at the time. During my second read through my perspective changed, gone was the line between clearly good and clearly evil. Instead I found myself rooting for the Russians. Not because of anti-americanism or any foolish rubbish, but simply because it seemed the west had an abundance of four leaf clovers and lucky charms. Any and all luck was on their side and despite the desperation of the situation, A...more
Aug 28, 2012Josh rated it liked it · review of another edition
Tom Clancy's writing style leaves a lot to be desired sometimes, even to a fan of this genre. Let me just say off the bat that this book (like most of Clancy's novels) is rife with blatantly false stereotypes of Russian and Soviet characters, and a very poor understanding of the Russian language. Maybe the tense relationship between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. when Clancy wrote these books means he had little practical experience to go on, but given some of the other, more accurate depictions of S...more
Mar 25, 2015Thomas Strömquist rated it liked it · review of another edition
In Sweden (at least) this one rode high on the success of the first few Ryan books. The characters of this one is even more one-dimensional and the whole story has a feeling of taking place on a higher level than personal most of the time. Unavoidable due to the scale of things, I guess. Nevertheless, it is quite suspenseful and if you're going in with an understanding of what you are about to read, it's captivating and readable.
Feb 29, 2012Tarjei Vågstøl rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This is my favorite Clancy novel. I'm currently re-reading it for the fourth time.
Published in 1986, at the heigth of reaganism, it probably read as a near-future techno-thriller. Now (2012), it reads as an alternative history thriller: What if the USSR chose to risk a limited war with Nato in order to gain a geopolitical advantage in the Middle East?
Don't let me mislead you: The political set-up is dull and at the point of naïve. The main point of this part is to lay down the premises for the m...more
Published in 1986, at the heigth of reaganism, it probably read as a near-future techno-thriller. Now (2012), it reads as an alternative history thriller: What if the USSR chose to risk a limited war with Nato in order to gain a geopolitical advantage in the Middle East?
Don't let me mislead you: The political set-up is dull and at the point of naïve. The main point of this part is to lay down the premises for the m...more
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The cover, that is.
The book? This was a true work of art.
A tour de force.
Only one of Clancy's books, I would ever recommend. Otherwise, his novels should be used as bricks in constructions of something more useful.
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The cover, that is.
The book? This was a true work of art.
A tour de force.
Only one of Clancy's books, I would ever recommend. Otherwise, his novels should be used as bricks in constructions of something more useful.
Dry narration of hypothetical WWIII. Full of strategic & tactical military, naval, and air combat technical details. Hardly any character development, pages after pages of insipid writing. Best avoided.
Red Storm Rising is basically a fictitious story about a conventional war between NATO and the Soviet Union. Written by Tom Clancy, it is one of the best books I have read. It is an incredibly realistic portrayal of what a real shooting war would be like. The book begins with Arab extremists sabotaging and ultimately destroying a key soviet oil refinery. Crippling an already shaky economy. In desperation, the soviet leaders, or Politburo, launch an offensive attack against NATO and the US to gai...more
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Feb 11, 2019KB rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: fiction, alternative-history, military-fiction, cold-war, thriller
Red Storm Rising warrants five (red) stars on the basis of a riveting and well-structured narrative. Tom Clancy certainly knew how to write an effective thriller when he created this imaginative and nightmarish vision of a high-technology, non-nuclear Third World War set during the 1980s. The story unfolds from numerous perspectives, providing the reader with an immersive view of the entire conflict, primarily as experienced by various American and Soviet military personnel.
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'Red Storm Rising,' Tom Clancy's second novel after his phenomenally successful 'The Hunt for Red October,' continues to demonstrate this writer's amazing ability to assimilate modern weaponry and warfare into a thrilling and frightening realistic tale. The Soviet Union, having suffered an attack that creates a critical energy shortage, decides they must seize the Persian Gulf. But to do this, of course, they must first neutralize NATO's considerable forces. Clancy once again is off to the ra...more
Jan 06, 2010Jamie Shew rated it it was amazing
I got this book for Christmas as a teenager and did not sleep as I read it. It was such an engrossing read especially as a teenager in the 1980's. My guess is a teenager today would not understand why it had such an impact as the Cold War is something they study in history. Tom Clancy was so detailed in setting up the plot, you had to push through the many chapters setting up a climax. I have always considered a Clancy book like a roller coaster, you go up a long hill really slow until that mome...more
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Apr 22, 2013Greg Strandberg rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This is a good book that many might skip. Don't! Just because it's in the Cold War era, it's a really good volume and shows the early character building of Clancy. I liked how some of the twists worked out at the end.
Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising was the longest, dullest, most terribly written P.O.S. I have ever read. Again I have to ask, “How did this author become a multi-million dollar best seller?” I was the target demographic for this book. It had airplane battles (sorely lacking in detail), naval battles (had way too much detail), tank battles, and ground infantry reconnaissance missions. Everything about this book was right up my alley. So why did I hate it?.
Sadly, the same problem that I had with The...more
Jan 28, 2019Wazoo rated it really liked it · review of another editionSadly, the same problem that I had with The...more
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A 3.75. Some parts were slightly over-dramatic/sounded a bit over-the-top, especially at the beginning when I was just getting into the book, but for the most part, I enjoyed it—even as someone who isn't familiar with the military or its terminology at all. I thought Clancy did a great job of making his story understandable to your general wide audience; again, as a reader who is wholly unfamiliar with the book's subject matter, I still found it interesting and easy enough to read and enjoy the...more
As a huge fan of the Jack Ryan books by this author, I was somewhat disappointed by this novel. Although it had a lot of the same Clancy flair, with the obviously well researched references and well constructed subplots, it lacked the intrigue and thrill of the Ryan series. It was also fairly repetitive, as the majority of the book is primarily detailed descriptions of how various units (ground, air and naval) would have prepared for and responded to different types of threats. At other times I...more
The book that hooked me on Tom Clancy. It’s been thirty plus years since I read it. The one thing I do remember is reading it for three straight days on the porch. My wife, at the time, was not a happy camper. Shocking. I tried to get her interested. She read maybe thirty pages and didn’t understand my excitement. Perhaps this is why the marriage didn’t last?
I will be rereading this thriller in the near future.
Five Stars.
Mar 12, 2019Bettie☯ rated it liked itI will be rereading this thriller in the near future.
Five Stars.
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Description: To offer the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery - a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other - a distraction calculated to enable the Soviets to seize all the oil in the Persian Gulf.
But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn't planned on: a full-scale conflict in which n...more
But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn't planned on: a full-scale conflict in which n...more
Jan 20, 2011Patrick Peterson rated it it was amazing
I read this book within a year or two of it comming out in 1986 and enjoyed it very much then. I went on to read all the Clancy books till he started writing (with a collaborator) the Ops Center series, which I never did read. I liked all I read, but this was my favorite.
For some reason, my son and wife picked this out to read together over these last holidays. I settled right in to listening with avid attention. One night I did the reading out loud to them. The next night Mary was busy and Art...more
For some reason, my son and wife picked this out to read together over these last holidays. I settled right in to listening with avid attention. One night I did the reading out loud to them. The next night Mary was busy and Art...more
Jan 17, 2009Sue rated it liked it · review of another edition
I believe this was my least liked of the Tom Clancy books I have read - it dragged on in a few sections, and the military maneuver details were overdone to my taste. However, since it was the second one I read and the first was really good, I kept going, and was glad I did.
Oct 08, 2015Belhor rated it it was ok
Maybe I should have read this book before I read 'Red Army'.
Jul 13, 2017Justin Bergendahl rated it really liked it · review of another edition
My first Clancy book and I really enjoyed it. I was interested in the storyline, characters, politics, and technology throughout the whole book. Don’t expect any philosophical narrative about global warfare though. This is relatively shallow like most movie-like best sellers but Clancy sounds convincing enough about his technological knowledge to let you feel like you’ve finished the book with some gained insight to compliment the adrenaline.
Even though it’s over 700 pages, Clancy keeps it inte...more
Even though it’s over 700 pages, Clancy keeps it inte...more
Well researched and realistic portrayal of a late Cold War NATO / USSR conventional confrontation, which holds up chillingly well even today. Naval buffs will enjoy the details, don't come for deep character development and inter-personal relationships. The players, platforms, and units are comparable to today, and the game of course remains the same.
Excellent book.
Jun 24, 2017wally rated it really liked it · review of another edition
finished this one this late morning 24 jun 17, great story, 4.8968794 stars. quite the tale...air/sea battles, air/air, air/land, sea battles, the whole shebang...iceland...europe...various parts of the atlantic. mind-boggling, the number of missiles. what was it? one french exocet hit the brit ship down south? i think i liked the story of iceland the most, if i had to chose. the rest of it is pretty 'gripping' too. subs. i guess they have nothing like 'iff'...other than dead-give-aways. read on...more
I mean, it's military porn. There's about 50 pages on cavitation bubbles in submarine battles but the main (only?) love interest happens in about 5.
Hard to take away themes other than 'war is hell' and 'tanks, planes, and submarines are impressive.'
Hard to take away themes other than 'war is hell' and 'tanks, planes, and submarines are impressive.'
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I have mixed feelings about America's military-industrial complex, constantly fighting an arms race it seems to have already won years before I was even born, but it's hard to deny that the end result is that the U.S. military has some of the coolest toys imaginable. So it seems pretty natural that Clancy would want to play with as many of them as possible. He dipped into the toy box with his first book, of course, but here, he upends the whole thing and the effect is rather grand.
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Tom Clancy was an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College. As a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history, his dream of writing a novel came true with his first effort, The Hunt for Red October (1984).
He since wrote more than a dozen novels, which have a blend of realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. Ten of the novels, including The Teeth of...more
He since wrote more than a dozen novels, which have a blend of realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. Ten of the novels, including The Teeth of...more
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