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

  • One of the best from Clancy

    5
    By Biko746262
    I’ve read this book many times, but it’s been years since I recently started it again. It’s very good but since it’s 40ish years old, it helps knowing the times back then. I was serving in the USMC then so all of this is fresh for me. It’s a good read. It’s a good read regardless of the times but if you’re young, keep an open mind regarding the equipment and the foe.

  • A Tedious Waste of Time.

    1
    By AlastairLC
    The authors (author?) tried to write a novel encompassing the entire duration of WWIII, from both sides, and, as one would expect, failed miserably. The result was a tedious mishmash of politics and military slugfests that was confusing and unbelievable. It might have helped if we were told which side we were on at any point and the military jargon was decyphered. (What is an ASW anyway?) Don’t waste you time on this rubbish. I couldn’t wait for it to end.

  • Loved it

    5
    By Ams111
    Absolutely fantastic book! Page turner. And most of all completely plausible.

  • A Very Gifted Author

    5
    By Neptunes Trident
    This was the first book I read by Tom Clancy. I have read it a few times along with everything else he has written. The level of detail in all his books through massive change of the political map during his career shows the level of dedication he had to make everything he wrote so authentic and well-researched. Very sad to have lost such a gifted author.

  • 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.

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