Jack Ryan · Book 1
The Hunt for Red October
- Published
- 1 October 1984
- Pages
- 479
- ISBN-13
- 9780945353799
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hunt for Red October (1984) opens the Jack Ryan series with a CIA analyst pulled into the defection of a Soviet submarine captain -- the case that starts Ryan's slow climb from desk analyst toward the Oval Office over the decades of books that follow. It runs 479 pages and set the template for Tom Clancy's techno-thriller density: real weapons systems, real geopolitics, and enough submarine tradecraft to read like unofficial Pentagon briefing material.
Its place in Jack Ryan
The Hunt for Red October is book 1 in the Jack Ryan series. It is followed by Patriot Games. See the full Jack Ryan reading order.
Jack Ryan starts the series as a CIA analyst who stumbles into a Soviet submarine defection and rises, book by book, to national security adviser and eventually President of the United States — one of the most sustained "ordinary competent man in extraordinary circumstances" arcs in thriller fiction. Tom Clancy built his name on techno-thriller density: real weapons systems, real geopolitics, and enough procedural detail about submarines, fighter jets and intelligence tradecraft that the books doubled as…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780286132992
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780945353799