Outside Reading: Hunt For Red October (2)

Hunt For Red October

Title: Hunt For Red October

Author: Tom Clancy

Genres: Novel/Action/Suspense

Percent read: 32/100

 

Summary:

 

Building on what I wrote in my first blog post this section starts of with Chief Political Officer of the Soviet Navy: Admiral Yuri Ilych Padorin receives a letter written by Ramius stating his desire to defect to the West with the Red October.

 

 Jumping to the west the Deputy Director of the CIA named James Greer shows Jack Ryan photos of an unidentified propulsion system on a Typhoon class Soviet submarine and the USS Dallas, a Los Angeles class attack submarine, detects the same (but not known to the characters) unidentified soviet Typhoon class submarine.

 

Ryan is then ordered to brief the President of the United States and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Soviets course of action concerning increased Soviet naval activity of the Northern Fleet. During the briefing Ryan presents his idea that the October wants to defect to the President and the President of appoints Jack Ryan to head a covert mission to recover the Red October and grants political asylum to Captain Marko Ramius.

 

Throughout this section I noticed that by Ramius wanting to defect and the United States welcoming him relationships between the east and west powers are becoming filled with tension.

Response:

 

So far I really like and enjoy reading this book. The book is full with military facts and accuracy while still maintaining a sort of suspense and action. This book has been very fun to read because at every discovery there is more and more tension developing between the eastern and western powers.

I predict a major plot twist later in the book that will change everything and make the book all the more exciting to read. Already I can see a chain of events being built that will lead to an unseen climax. All in all The Hunt For Red October has more than filled my expectations thus far.

 

Passage:

 

“Forty years I've been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments, only casualties.”

 

As a reader I feel that this quote really shows the way submariners see war at sea. This quote doesn’t really bring anything else then realization as I read it because, that is a completely different view than I have on how war functions. All in all I would say this quote really has some meaning in the text.