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| Original Title: | Red Storm Rising |
| ISBN: | 0394298667 (ISBN13: 9780394298665) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Tom Clancy
Audio Cassette | Pages: 128 pages Rating: 4.16 | 67740 Users | 1058 Reviews
Details Containing Books Red Storm Rising
| Title | : | Red Storm Rising |
| Author | : | Tom Clancy |
| Book Format | : | Audio Cassette |
| Book Edition | : | Abridged |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | September 13th 1988 by Random House Audio (first published August 28th 1986) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. War. Military Fiction. Action. Spy Thriller. Espionage. Suspense |
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"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.
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Ratings: 4.16 From 67740 Users | 1058 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Red Storm Rising
My first Clancy book and I really enjoyed it. I was interested in the storyline, characters, politics, and technology throughout the whole book. Dont expect any philosophical narrative about global warfare though. This is relatively shallow like most movie-like best sellers but Clancy sounds convincing enough about his technological knowledge to let you feel like youve finished the book with some gained insight to compliment the adrenaline. Even though its over 700 pages, Clancy keeps itAs much of a fan I am of Tom Clancy and his work, I can't believe it's taken me so friggin long to read RSR! Well I've finally read it and haven't come back disappointed! Red Storm Rising is Tom Clancy's second written novel, co-written by his friend Larry Bond. Red Storm Rising follows a World War III scenario between NATO and the Soviet Union, set during the Cold War, after terrorists from Azerbaijan attacks and destroys an Oil Refinery in Russia, threatening to cripple the Soviet Union's oil
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 Persian Gulf without incurring NATO opposition, I was wiki-ing terms like "KGB" and "Kremlin". Things didn't improve when the Russians failed to break up NATO, World War III started, and I was searching my dictionary for things like "fighter" and "carrier".But 830 pages gives you a long time to learn, and
Tom Clancys Red Storm Rising was the longest, dullest, most terribly written P.O.S. I have ever read. Again I have to ask, How did this author become a multi-million dollar best seller? I was the target demographic for this book. It had airplane battles (sorely lacking in detail), naval battles (had way too much detail), tank battles, and ground infantry reconnaissance missions. Everything about this book was right up my alley. So why did I hate it?.Sadly, the same problem that I had with The
Tom Clancy's writing style leaves a lot to be desired sometimes, even to a fan of this genre. Let me just say off the bat that this book (like most of Clancy's novels) is rife with blatantly false stereotypes of Russian and Soviet characters, and a very poor understanding of the Russian language. Maybe the tense relationship between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. when Clancy wrote these books means he had little practical experience to go on, but given some of the other, more accurate depictions of
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 of 10 stars
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 was written as part of a competition that clancy had with Stephen King, to see who could write the longest book in a week. Sadly for clancy, King won, but that's only because Clancy took 15 minutes out of the contest to call up the army and ask them the names of some cool guns and planes and stuff. A
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