Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy

Red Storm Rising

By Tom Clancy

  • Release Date: 1986-08-07
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
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Description

From the author of the Jack Ryan series comes an electrifying #1 New York Times bestseller—a standalone military thriller that envisions World War 3...

A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you will never forget. Hard-hitting. Suspenseful. And frighteningly real.

“Harrowing...tense...a chilling ring of truth.”—TIME

Reviews

  • Enjoyable, especially the air and naval warfare!

    4
    By ipothrudfloor
    Some of the names are a bit hard to keep track of at times, and there are some dubious escapes from near certain death. Other than that, it was a great depiction of a NATO-Russian/Warsaw pact conflict. At times the acronyms are hard to relay, but there are multiple, clear, and interesting narratives. The naval combat, especially the submarines, and air combat descriptions are vivid and engaging.

  • Still Clancy’s best

    5
    By mjdseattle
    I’ve been reading Tom Clancy for 30+ years. I’m revisiting old classics and forgot just how good red storm rising is on its own. In my opinion his best book.

  • Best Clancy Book

    5
    By BPS112000
    I have read almost all of Tom Clancy’s books and this is my favorite by far! It has all of his normal tendencies to incorporate real military tactics and hardware while explaining most of it to the reader who isn’t up to snuff on their military doctrine. My biggest hope is that someone like Netflix or Amazon picks up the rights to the book and makes a 10-12 episode miniseries with each episode being between 1-1.5 hours as this book is so dense with information that anything less would leave out too much to are it enjoyable for those of us that have read the book. If you enjoy military thrillers do yourself a favor and pick this book up, you will blow right through it even though its pretty long. I have read it 4 times now and each time its taken me less than a week to go through it. My favorite Clancy book, and thats saying something as he has so many great ones, Hunt for Red October being a close second. Trust me, this is a must read!!

  • Red Storm

    5
    By davidsm11
    Red Storm. Some of the names and titles were hard to keep up with. That made it more realistic. Great book.

  • Humm

    4
    By Bedbugman
    Seems to be lacking toward the end

  • Superbly engrossing.

    5
    By aikenlipiddoc
    Addicting military action, though keeping the characters straight was a bit of an inconvenience—but certainly a must. Thoroughly enjoyable, believably frightening, CLASSIC Tom Clancy. 5 stars, for certain.

  • A remarkable book would highly recommend

    5
    By !!!!!!?$
    This book starts out slow but man does it get exciting! Had a hard time getting into it then couldn’t put it down.

  • Thrilling and exciting read

    5
    By Johnhyman
    Thrilling and exciting read with several ever-changing stories and perspectives. Fantastic weaving of events and descriptions of technology.

  • 4th Time

    5
    By TxDogstar
    Red Storm Rising is a great read and Clancy at his best. I read this book the first time in my early 20’s and continue go back to it and get more out of it each time I read it.

  • Red Storm Rising

    5
    By GuitarDann
    Always has been my favorite over many great stories written by Mr. Clancy. Thanks to him I know so much more of the job my father had for 26 years. He was an Air Force NCO crypto operator in the embassies in Yugoslavia & Spain, ‘52 to ‘56 & ‘58 to ‘61, respectively, and the Sarge-in-Charge in The Hole @ High Wycombe Air Station from ‘66 to ‘69. Mars was rising & my dad was one of the many heroes of the Cold War, as was my Mom, who raised us under the shadow of that war. I have great love & respect for my mom & my dad, thanks to Mr. Clancy I have understanding. I was the oldest of 5 & I was present & a witness to all the bravery & steadfast dedication of all the heroes of that war.

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