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I get the impression that Clancy spent a lot of time researching this book to make it accurate, but along the way he forgot to research how to pace a decent plot. The Red October, a Typhoon-class sub, moved under her own power towards the main ship channel of the Kola Fjord. For the Red October it was Moscow standard time, which by normal reckoning was actually one hour ahead of standard time to save on utility expenses. You have been taught all you need to know, and my instructions are in the order book. The political officer had been there, had cried real tears as the coffin of polished pine rolled into the cremation chamber. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. If we detect another submarine or surface ship you will inform me at once and instantly initiate evasion drill. “Comrades! Shop The Hunt for Red October [SteelBook] [Includes Digital Copy] [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray] [1990] at Best Buy. That wasn’t what their orders were supposed to be, was it? Grid square 54-90 was to the east. “Very well. “You want to cruise for two months?” Putin asked. He had read articles in Red Star and other state journals about the joys of duty in Cuba. Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins. All were single; no one left behind a wife or children. We will return as scheduled.’”, Kamarov worked the trigger on the blinker light to transmit the message. A few of the younger men went pale but stood rigidly upright. Ramius lifted the phone again, pushing the button for the sub’s radio room. Showing all 3 wins and 8 nominations. Every officer aboard had served with Ramius before, except for three junior lieutenants, who would obey their orders as readily as any wet-nosed matros (seaman), and the doctor, who was useless. It struck the point. Our orders are to make the ultimate test of our new silent propulsion system. I was very excited to read this book, but was generally disappointed in it. In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Learn your duties well, and carry them out exactly. “Two more weeks of confinement,” the zampolit said, stirring his tea. The opening is well researched and even for those like myself who don't have a great deal of knowledge of the time it was written in and the Soviet Empire, enough detailed is provided. The Red October Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy. At least I thought I had until I decided to re-read The Hunt for Red October. The Soviet giant cared little for the dirt it left on the face of the earth, he grumbled to himself. Tom Clancy’s 1984 debut novel, The Hunt For Red October, is an entertaining Cold War classic that introduces the enduringly popular hero Jack Ryan. The Nakhimov School was a special three-year prep school for youngsters aspiring to a career at sea. Outwardly the model of a Party member’s son, he played the game carefully and according to all the rules. I felt as though the author had to establish his credentials as someone who knew about all this stuff, but I just didn't care about all that technical detail. And the most incredible chase in history is on.... 12 1.5-hour cassettes Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy. Once the spinal cord is severed, there is no hope. One way or another, he’d never go back. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. With a good imagination you can view the entire book in 3D! Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. And we will be warm.”. Had there been a change in plans? He decided to play with his kids. The book is littered with conversion errors - every page is marred with words that run together without spaces, and there are missing partial and complete sentences in many chapters. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravda editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. He will know we are to hunt him and will adjust his plans accordingly. There was a problem loading your book clubs. The teenager thrived with his first experience of fellowship. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2015. So, here he was, still working a six-day week—and without extra pay! It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. This is—gruesome, I know, but he deserves and will get an honorable military funeral, with his shipmates in attendance, as it should be, when we return to port.”. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It gave him a means of gauging his actions and those of others. It is a thriller with a new twist, a "military procedural" with an ingenious, tightly woven plot that revolves around the defection of a Soviet nuclear submarine--the USSR's newest and most valuable ship, with its most trusted and skilled officer at the helm. I have to say I saw the movie, Hunt for Red October first. The tug had done a simple job, but done it quickly and well. After a week of following the model around the north end of the Caspian Sea in an electrically powered launch, trailing the best passive sonar array his country had yet made, he thought he had found a flaw. Please try again. Work didn’t appeal to him this Saturday morning. His current vessel was a brand-new Alfa, the fastest submarine ever made. I have to say I saw the movie, Hunt for Red October first. “One hundred meters below the keel, Comrade Captain.”, “Increase speed to two-thirds, come left ten degrees.” Ramius looked at Kamarov. We are in open sea, there is no traffic about, and the reactor is running at a fraction of its total power. Or get 4-5 business-day shipping on this item for $5.99 And their privileges! Next he dropped eight meters down the inside of the sail to the pressure hull, then two more into the control room. The premise is really good and there parts of the book that are genuinely exciting. Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2016. If we succeed in reaching Cuba undetected by the imperialists—and we will!—the officers and men of Red October will have a week—a week—of shore leave to visit our fraternal socialist comrades on the beautiful island of Cuba. There was no telling. In the summer of his eighth year the course of his life was forever changed. Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Americans are determined to find her first and get her safely to port in the intelligence coups of all time. They had been good years, and while he found his former commander to be something of a cynic, especially about the Party, he would unhesitatingly testify to Ramius’ skill and craftiness. Of course there was no guarantee of success. He hoped so—it would be good if Natalia were not truly dead. Ramius always gave a good one. No enemy vessels in vicinity. With the demise of the zampolit this duty devolved upon the commanding officer, but Ramius doubted that regulations anticipated the sort of discussion on today’s agenda. Ramius adjusted the periscope lens to look down and saw the black water change briefly to foam. has been added to your Cart. After all, he’d be stuck in Washington for much of the coming week. For Putin the death of Natalia Bogdanova Ramius had been a cause of grief, but beyond that the act of an uncaring God whose existence he regularly denied. An unnecessary, monstrous crime, one that demanded punishment. The dock that had held his Red October for two interminable months was now a water-filled concrete box, one of the many specially built to shelter strategic missile submarines from the harsh elements. A dirty harbor tug pushed his submarine’s bow around to the north, facing down the channel. There should be no problems. There was no going back after that. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2021. Sooner or later our young officers must learn to function on their own. Opening a small mailbag, he pulled out an official-looking envelope addressed to the Main Political Administration of the Navy in Moscow. Words fail me (but not nearly as badly as Penguin Group failed!). To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life. Ramius smiled. If you want to read a book about technical specifications on things like submarines and super computers from the early 1980s then there’s still probably better books than this one. “All stop.” The quartermaster, a starshina (petty officer), dialed the annunciator to the STOP position. He advises the president to offer the defectors asylum. It was not your fault. Fine, it will be as you say. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. The Red October carried twenty-six SS-N-20 Seahawk missiles, each with eight 500-kiloton multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles—MIRVs—enough to destroy two hundred cities. --This text refers to the paperback edition. Kamarov began the procedure for leveling off at the proper depth. “Those American 688-class submarines, Ivan, the Los Angeleses. I have read every Jack Ryan novel Tom Clancy ever wrote. THE HUNT IS ON… Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia’s ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. My husband purchased the book for me on a whim. Ramius returned the gesture. Each officer in this room was a member of his conspiracy. The corpsman and a pair of sailors then took it forward, through the control room, into the missile compartment. There are no small jobs on this ship, no small responsibilities. Ambassador, you've lost another submarine". It is good to leave the dock. She had plenty of engine power and a new drive system that he hoped would befuddle American and Soviet submarines alike, but she was so big that she changed depth like a crippled whale. A new, technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. An altogether excellent performance. Ships from and sold by Cambridge Glen Bookstore. “That observation has been made in the past, Marko. I was fully prepared not to be particularly impressed with this book, even though I have enjoyed watching the movie numerous times over the years. A steward had left several pots of tea along with black bread and butter to snack on. Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, a Lithuanian who has risen to high levels of trust in the Soviet Navy, intends to defect to officers and the experimental nuclear submarine Red October, a Typhoon-class submarine equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system. At the same time he gave a pep talk. To make us nervous, to make us question ourselves. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. I was very excited to read this book, but was generally disappointed in it. Pride sparkled in the boy’s eyes. The next hour passed quickly. “Why, snow flowers, of course,” Putin said, laughing loudly. Please try again. It began to lap over the October’s spherical bow, rolling back down the flat missile deck which lay before the towering black sail. “Our friend is still cruising in a slow circle. You son of a bitch! The clerk paused, fingering the envelope. Read this book if you must; I found it boring. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. By the time Marko met him, Sasha was over sixty, a nearly bald man with ropy old muscles, a seaman’s eye, and a talent for stories that left the youngster wide-eyed. “Indeed.” Ramius broke the wax seal on the envelope and extracted the four-page operation order. He’d been a midshipman under the famous Admiral Marakov at Port Arthur in 1906. “I tried to keep him from falling, but he hit his head on the table. In the Central Post Office building in Severomorsk a mail sorter watched sourly as a truck driver dumped a large canvas sack on his work table and went back out the door. Overall, the underlying story is great, but you have to work your way through too much technical mumbo jumbo and pointless character details to get there. All were shipped off to fates that now even Moscow could only guess at. Only a seaman, not a schoolmaster—despite what they say about me. “One must give young officers room to grow—but not too much. When the Germans invaded a year later, Aleksandr fought heroically as a political commissar, and was later to distinguish himself in the Battle of Leningrad. Notice too that the words "Red October" on the first edition are a dark red, while the same words on the book club edition are a much brighter red. It is very much like a church service. The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man’s soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. Then I can train them to be seamen the right way, my way. He had a liter of vodka bet on Wings. I have been there, comrades, and you will find it to be exactly what you have read, a paradise of warm breezes, palm trees, and comradely good fellowship.” By which Ramius meant women. The men on watch in the control room were exchanging grins. Every officer and every man aboard, from your commanding officer to the newest matros, must do his socialist duty and do it well! Build speed slowly to thirteen knots.”. Putin was quiet for once, Marko noted. One little girl told Marko a story that he recounted to Aleksandr, and to the boy’s uncomprehending horror her father vanished. It was not often that a Soviet sailor was allowed to visit another country, and a visit by a nuclear submarine to a foreign country, even an ally, was nearly unprecedented. They stopped there, probing. You all know that our beloved friend and comrade, Captain Ivan Yurievich Putin, died yesterday in a tragic accident. Picked up the e-book version to give it a re-read, and am shocked at the poor quality. Marko wondered. The four-day drill with Konovalov will be interesting diversion.” Bastard, he said to himself, you knew beforehand exactly what our orders were—and you do know Viktor Tupolev, liar. “Will this be reported to fleet headquarters?” Petrov asked. It was too bad what would happen to him, Ramius thought, still the teacher. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Ramius outlined their plans—there had been some minor changes which he had not mentioned to anyone. A *simple spellcheck* would have caught most of these errors! Like all Soviet children, Ramius joined the Little Octobrists, then the Young Pioneers. But don’t be overly concerned. It would not do at all for the Soviet Navy’s newest missile submarine to be damaged by an errant chunk of frozen water. Since we were traveling to Florida I decided to purchase the Kindle edition, good choice. At 0800 hours, when the forenoon watch was set, he entered the control room and took some file cards from an inside jacket pocket. A michman (warrant officer) shut the second hatch and with a powerful spin turned the locking wheel as far as it would go. Running and maintaining the ship was a huge job for so small a crew, even though extensive use of automation made her the most modern of Soviet naval vessels. They have less to unlearn. “Comrades! No? Marko would follow the quest for adventure that had for centuries called young men to the sea. The Russian missile boat wasn’t supposed to have sailed for another week, and the Bremerton’s skipper was annoyed at this latest intelligence screw-up. “My fault,” he cried, shaking his head in rage, struggling visibly to regain his composure. He was not only in competition with a machine, but also with the captain commanding her. As it was in most Russian cities, winter was Gorkiy’s best season. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. The depth (no pun intended) of the details was astounding. “Comrades! The Red October’s wardroom was a spacious affair for a submarine, located immediately forward of the galley, aft of the officer accommodations. “You don’t look fine. The ice was something to worry about. As well they might be. Inside you'll find 30 Daily Lessons, 20 Fun Activities, 180 Multiple Choice Questions, 60 Short Essay Questions, 20 Essay Questions, Quizzes/Homework Assignments, Tests, and more. The Novel that Made Clancy's Reputation (and It's Better than the Movie! Every word they committed to paper was priority mail. But Sasha was very careful to leave the later parts out. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2015. 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