Ramius was ordered to conduct military exercises with Soviet Alfa-class attack submarine V. As the sub leaves the shipyard at Polyarny, Ramius kills his political officer, Ivan Putin, to ensure that he will not interfere. It is equipped with a cutting-edge silent propulsion system, known as the "caterpillar drive", that makes audio detection by passive sonar extremely difficult and enables the submarine to sneak its way into American territorial waters and launch nuclear missiles with little to no warning. The book was instrumental in bringing the book genre of techno-thriller into the mainstream.ĭuring the Cold War, Marko Ramius, a Soviet Navy submarine commander, plans to defect to the United States with the Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine Red October. A film adaptation was released on March 2, 1990, and several computer and video games based on the book have been developed. President Ronald Reagan remarked that he had enjoyed reading the book. The Hunt for Red October launched Clancy's successful career as a novelist, especially after then-U.S.
It depicts Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius as he seemingly goes rogue with his country's cutting-edge ballistic missile submarine Red October, and marks the first appearance of Clancy's most popular fictional character, Jack Ryan, an analyst working for the Central Intelligence Agency, as he must prove his theory that Ramius is intending to defect to the United States. The Hunt for Red October is the debut novel by American author Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984, by the Naval Institute Press.
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