Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Tom Clancy
• Title: Red Storm Rising (A Jack Ryan Novel)
• Publisher: ‎ G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 652 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0399131493
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0399131493
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.98 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎6.1 x 2 x 9.32 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (Used book that is in clean condition without any missing pages and spine is intact. Minimal discoloration to the page edges.) Good condition is defined as a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages and cover are intact and the cover is in good condition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Synopsis:

Tom Clancy's first novel was the phenomenal The Hunt for Red October, a story about the chase for a defecting Soviet submarine that topped the bestseller lists for seven months; that had the intelligence experts of several nations reading it for its astonishing authenticity; that gained raves from critics, admirals and even the President himself.

"If Red October is only Clancy's first," wrote Jack Higgins, "then the rest of us better look out, because God alone knows what the second and third are going to be like."

Red Storm Rising is Clancy's second novel, and it is in every way bigger, more daring, even more thrillingly dramatic.

Once again, the players are the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. — but this time the stakes are much higher. When Moslem fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Soviets decide they have no choice. To survive, they must seize the oil in the Persian Gulf; to seize the oil, they must find a way to keep NATO from retaliating.

And they find it: Red Storm, an audacious, four-month master plan of elaborate diplomatic trickery and crash military buildup designed to keep the West off-balance — and ready it for the knockout blow. As the weeks tick by, and we watch the brilliant Soviet strategy unfolding, the rumors flying, the West scrambling to keep up, Clancy turns up the tension, notch by notch, until it seems it can go no higher — and then the novel explodes with the full fury of the Soviet armed forces as they sweep into Europe and the North Atlantic, and the West finds itself in an all-out shooting war, and maybe more — the climactic battle for control of the globe.

In one of the most remarkable depictions of modern warfare ever written, Clancy weaves men, planes, ships, missiles and submarines; scenes of large-scale battle and individual acts of heroism; moments of tragedy, joy and unimaginable endurance into an intricate pattern that dances and whirls before our eyes. Filled with a memorable cast of Russians and Americans alike, and the extraordinary authentic detail for which Tom Clancy has been acclaimed, it is both a triumph of the storyteller s art — and frighteningly real.

About the Author:

A little more than thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel.

His first effort, The Hunt for Red October—the first of the phenomenally successful Jack Ryan novels—sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.”

From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013.