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Red Storm Rising
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Red Storm Rising

Written by Tom Clancy

Narrated by F. Murray Abraham

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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When Moslem fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands. They plan to seize the Persian Gulf, and more ambitiously, to neutralize NATO. Thus begins Red Storm, an audacious gamble that uses diplomatic maneuver to cloak a crash military build-up. When Soviet tanks begin to roll, the West is caught off guard. What looks like a thrust turns into an all-out shooting war, possibly the climactic battle for control of the globe.


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Release dateSep 17, 2002
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Red Storm Rising
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Tom Clancy

Since the phenomenal worldwide success of ‘‘The Hunt for Red October’, his controversial, ground-breaking first novel, Tom Clancy has become one of the world’s fastest-selling thriller writers. Three of his novels have been made into highly successful films: ‘The Hunt for Red October’, ‘Patriot Games’ and ‘Clear and Present Danger’. He is also the author of several non-fiction books on military subjects, and the co-creator of the ‘Op-Centre’ series. He lives in Maryland, USA.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Re-read after many years, the reason why I enlisted in the Navy and volunteered for submarines. Held up fairly well, still a good read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you've ever wondered what the cold war of the 1980's period turning into world war 3 would be like, this is the book for you.
    The Hunt for Red October was a far easier film to make than this, which is probably why even now this is one Clancy story that has not made it to the movies.
    Watch the military technology at the command of NATO and the old USSR collide.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A great cold war adventure of a world that "Could have been". The book lists several weapon systems that were planned but never introduced, and ultimately suffers from a lack of detail and action during the actual combat but is overall a hell'va read for those who still wonder what the Cold War going hot would look like.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I believe this was my least liked of the Tom Clancy books I have read - it dragged on in a few sections, and the military maneuver details were overdone to my taste. However, since it was the second one I read and the first was really good, I kept going, and was glad I did.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was Clancy's second book and a good successor to Hunt for Red October. Set in the 1980s, it's the story of a desperate (and let's face it, a bit improbable) attempt by the Soviet Union to neuter NATO before seizing oil from the middle east. There's the usual Clancy trademark of various threads kept running in parallel until they all come together at the end - which for my money is a little abrupt. The other thing I'd prefer would be a litte more diplomatic/political action and a little less purely military; I think Clancy corrected this somewhat in his later books. This book does not have a single protagonist (ie Jack Ryan) but no worse for that. Overall, a very good, compulsive read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Mr. Clancy has vast knowledge of the military. Good story.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    You MUST read this book. I've read hundreds of books and this one is still near the top. It defines the "Realistic War Fiction" genre that Tom Clancy started in the 80's. Fast paced and absolutely believable!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    When I do like Tom Clancy, it is when his style is like this book. He is reporting not so much as writing. Here he creates a fictional war and cuts from scenario to scenario to give us the latest updates. I enojoyed this one.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A very good book about a ww3 which could have happened in the 80's. If found the battles in germany with russia vs the west very good pace. the submarine parts tended to drag on a bit but the other plots with the russian portoburea backfire bombers the takeover of iceland and generals getting killed millitary takeovers makes for good reading.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Mr. Clancy has a great knowledge of the military. Good story.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Another Clancy novel full of hundreds of details and just as many pages. Though it took me weeks to finish, I still have to give it 5 stars, because in the end it was just plain good.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Good if dated book. Enjoyable.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'll do the same review for all Clancy's novels because they're all pretty much the same. Very long, very detailed, and after a while, very repetitive. If you stop after just a few of his books you'd probably give them 4 or 5 stars, but beyond that they start to grate. Especially where Jack Ryan is involved. I mean, Clancy spends hundreds of pages getting his details just right, the settings perfect etc., then he has Ryan dodging more bullets than James Bond! I finally threw my hands up and surrendered when Ryan becomes President. I can't remember what piece of crap that was in.I've given three stars as a compromise between my reactions when reading my first Clancy (brilliant) and last Clancy (doorstop).
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It's Tom Clancy's fiction so it's preposterous but somewhat fun to read if you enjoy the mere recitation of names of military equipment and units.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another of my favorite Clancy novels. In the face of a severe oil crisis, the Soviet Union wages war against NATO. The story is almost entirely comprised of military scenarios. Among the sub-plots are a group who survives the attack on Iceland and serve as scouts, a ship captain who overcomes his first loss, political maneuvering in Russia, and the battle between submarine forces and their hunters. Clancy brings out the economic and chain-of-command factors quite well. This book was published in 1986. The overthrow of the Politburo in 1991 was very similar.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Aside from the almost cliche Tom Clancy pretext for the plot of a major terrorist strike destroying a facility that provides a majority of the USSR's oil (which is Left Behind-stupid in terms of opening acts) this is an amazing look into what World War Three would turn out like in the late 1980's/early 1990's. Strategists and academics from both sides have concurred that Clancy was amazingly apt in some of his predictions, such as the high expenditure of munitions and the loss of effectiveness of blitzkrieg tactics to light anti-armor platforms and stealth aircraft. Wish it had stayed focused on the meta-strategy instead of focusing in on a few focal characters in different hotspots. The ground war especially is somewhat lacking in its coverage from the Allied side.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An interesting look at World War IIINOt my favorite Clancy novel.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Late cold war communist Russia suffers a catastrophic oil meltdown, so they must have the middle east. To get there, Russia invades Europe as a play to eliminate NATO. A great alternate history plot and engaging stories.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This has to be near the top of the list for worst book I have ever attempted to read. I am not particularly interested in this genre, but I received this book as a gift from a very good friend. Because he kept asking me about the book, I made several attempts to read it, but it never passed the 50-page test, and I finally gave it up.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    His second installment after “Red October” – and without Jack Ryan, what an outrage! After I got over my frustration because of that, I quite enjoyed myself. It is set during the good old times of all thriller writers – the iron curtain is still there and the Russians are the bad guys. And – surprise, surprise – they start WW III, this time by attacking Germany. I am glad that Tom Clancy does not rule the US, otherwise we would have another World War every other week! Anyway, pretty good, even without Jack Ryan (I’m still not over that!). Lots of submarines, frigates, carriers, sea battles – the usual day for Clany fans….. just where the heck is Jack Ryan?
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    One of Clancy's better books, probably becasue it doesn't feature Jack Ryan anywhere. Russia's still the big bad enemy and struggling for fuel decides to invade Europe, using - a bit of a departure for clancy - brains instead of brute strength. Fortunetly the american cavalry can get there to save the day. Enjoyable read.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I have actually read this book a few times and really enjoy it. When I found it on scribd I was excited to listen to it as I drove but was extremely disappointed to find this huge book to be only a 2 hour abridged version.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Not bad a bit bitty but enjoyable if it develops into a series then the different characters will have a chance to be developed
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I enjoy Red Storm Rising however I wish this had bin marked as the 2 hour abridged version and not the full version that is almost 20 hours.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Once again Tom has done a great job. The format allows one to keep in the book from all angles. He brings out what might have happened during the cold war. Tom's research pays off as he has all the correct military equipment and such doing the right job. He keeps the story up front and personal.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is one of the best single-volume war novels I have ever read. The action is tense and non-stop once the shooting starts. It's a large novel, but reads quickly.The novel spans the cause, buildup, commencement, execution and completion of a short WWIII between NATO and Soviet conventional forces. Using the then-state-of-the-art in technology, arms, and doctrine, Clancy and Bond weave a very taut tale imagining how these different technologies and tactics might interact once unleashed. Some promising technologies are brought low, others are used in unintended ways by the inventive minds in the field and staff, thereby shifting battlefield advantages.Red Storm Rising's primary story is the action. As such the different theaters (air, sea, land, intel), many characters, geopolitics, and other facets are subservient to driving the action. You may see reviews which critique Clancy's handling of this or that (no strong characterization, wish there was more focus on this or that theater, the politics wasn't as fleshed out as desired...) but the reviewers miss the point that the action is the story. Readers unfamiliar with the techno-military jargon will be able to sort through the zoo of Bears, Badgers, Tomcats, Hornets, Eagles, Falcons, Aardvarks, Sea Stallions,... and the numerous alphanumeric designators. You'll get the concepts from the contexts.This is a great book I could not put down. No obvious typos or other editorial sloppiness

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A chillingly plausible scenario for WWIII. And I agree with him: WWIII will have no nukes.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I finished my second Tom Clancy novel in three weeks. And I've become a fan.I enjoyed "Red Storm Rising" more than "Clear and Present Danger". "Red Storm Rising" was Clancy's second novel and doesn't include either of the characters that make up much of the core of his fabulously popular high-tech military thrillers: Jack Ryan and John Clark. Clancy builds credible motives for the Russian-fueld World War III, and the plot drives all 600+ pages of this novel that bounces between perspectives of characters ranging from military leaders, to intelligence officers, to the most engaging of all, an Air Force weatherman thrust to the fore of the international battle.I'm not a military guy and I've not read much around a modern military (though I've read my fair share of ancient Roman Legion battles), but I became hooked on Clancy's details surrounding the tactics of all branches of the military and the somewhat less fulfilling political machinations that drove the bigger picture war efforts. Clancy's mostly able to differentiate a multitude of battles, though seemed to struggle a bit with an ongoing series of submarine engagements. There's no character depth here, and quite frankly, I was perfectly happy to let the detailed plot drive the story. "Red Storm Rising" is an exciting and engaging read. It's not great, but it's a whole lot of fun.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Frankly, this is Tom Clancy's magnum opus. If you're going to read only one Clancy novel, read this one.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I first read this book in 1988 when the Iron Curtain was firmly in place and thoughts of a war between the USSR and the USA seemed like a possibility. To add interest, I read it while living in Germany and my father had just returned from a deployment in Iceland where he flew a P3 Orion (the planes that hunted the subs in the book). In thought it would be boring... All that war stuff. But Mr Clancy has a way of making technology interesting Anna humanizing both the good guys abs the bad guys. Reading it more than thirty years later I still found it griping, though the technology is woefully outdated. The basis for the crisis seems every bit as likely today as it did thirty years ago.