Hardcover, 493 pages
German language
Published 1986 by Weltbild.
Jagd auf Roter Oktober
by Tom Clancy
- ISBN:
- 4026411115054
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One of the early novels of the modern techno-thriller genre, the book tracks the efforts of a disgruntled Soviet submarine captain to defect, with his Typhoon-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine "Red October," to the United States. Aside from the ICBM she carries, the ship has a new propulsion system that sounds like normal underwater seismic noise, essentially impossible to detect using normal submarine sonar systems optimized for mechanical noises and transient sounds. Jack Ryan, Clancy's hero, here performing as a CIA systems analyst, begins pulling the thread on the "Red October" when he is assigned to analyze a photograph of the ship under construction in it's dry dock that exhibits an unusual shape built into the hull. The pace and action continue to build through the book to a surprising climax.
Subjects
- United States
- Intelligence service in fiction
- Soviet Union. in fiction
- Nuclear submarines
- Defectors
- Fiction
- Intelligence service
- Jack Ryan (Fictitious character)
- Submarines (Ships)
- Sr. Ryan, Jack (Fictitious character)
- Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot
- Submarine forces
- United States. in fiction
- United States. Navy
- Spy stories
- Soviet Union
- Ryan, jack (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, espionage