About Red Storm Rising
“Allah!”
With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a critical oil shortage that threatens the stability of the USSR.
To offer the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery – a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other – a distraction calculated to enable the Soviets to seize all the oil in the Persian Gulf.
But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn’t planned on: a full-scale conflict in which nobody can win.
Detail
Complete Title: Red Storm Rising
Format: Audio Cassette
Language: English
Number of Pages:
Publication Time: September 13, 1988
Publisher: Random House Audio
ISBN: 0394298667
ISBN13: 9780394298665
About Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy was an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College. As a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history, his dream of writing a novel came true with his first effort, The Hunt for Red October (1984).
He wrote more than a dozen novels, which have a blend of realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. Ten of the novels, including The Teeth of the Tiger (Berkley, 2004), feature the character Jack Ryan, former stock broker and CIA employee.
Clancy’s non-fiction works include a series of guided tours of America’s warfighting assets, Submarine, Armored Cav, Fighter Wing, Marine, and Airborne.
He lived in Maryland.
The following are the books and approximate time frame in the Jack Ryan Universe
Without Remorse 1969-73
Patriot Games 1981-82
Red Rabbit 1982
The Hunt for Red October 1984
The Cardinal of the Kremlin 1986
Clear and Present Danger 1988
The Sum of All Fears 1990-91
Debt of Honor 1995-96
Executive Orders 1996
Rainbow Six 1999-2000
The Bear and the Dragon 2002
The Teeth of the Tiger 2006
Dead or Alive 2007
Locked On 2007
Threat Vector 2009
Command Authority 2013
Support and Defend 2014
Full Force and Effect 2014
Reviews Red Storm Rising
Mario the lone bookwolf
Testosterone poisoning and mad manly masculinity escalate to short-story-long descriptions of saber-rattling, real life global strategy games, and the brink of nuclear war. Reread 2022 with extended r…
Matthew
This is definitely the longest it has taken me to finish a book in years. In this case, the cause was a COVID-19 reading slump that started in mid-March 2020. Red Storm Rising was the last remaining h…
David Putnam
Loved this book when it came out; summed up in one word, “enthralling.” It’s told from multiple points of view of multiple locations and incidents each one was interesting in itself. An epic story on…
Joe
Ah, clancy. If you like his stuff, you’ll love this book. If you like the books that he didn’t write that have his name on them, you’ll probably really like this book.Few people know that this book wa…
Tim
Awful, boring overlong story of war and rape. The only good portion of this novel aside from the victim finding love is the end which should have ocurred one third of the way through this travesty. 2…
Brett C
Overall this was an entertaining read. I have read numerous Tom Clancy novels and I feel his early works are the strongest. This book does not involve Jack Ryan or John Clark. The plot setting is duri…
Maggie
My relationship with this book got off to a bad start. I’ve never known much about or cared much for the Cold War, and while I read of the Russian Politburo plotting a way to seize oil from the Persia…
Carlex
Clearly Tom Clancy wasn’t writing to win a Novel Prize, but I consider this book a masterpiece within its genre.For a book written in 1986, it retains a certain relevance, particularly with the modern…
Doug
Tom Clancy is absolutely hands down the master of the military/techno-thriller genre. And this book is no exception – I can only imagine the extreme and meticulous lengths he must have gone to researc…