The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy About the author’s relation to the book and the book itself: A mutiny on a Soviet destroyer stimulated Clancy to write “Red October”; it was an instant hit. This novel has been adapted for film, with Sean Connery as Cpt. Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan. “Red October” – the movie was awarded one Oscar and became a box-office hit. Settings: Washington, Moscow, North Atlantic. …showed first 75 words of 1670 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1670 total…d call, a sub problem, of the cold war problem itself. Furthermore the book deals with problems like espionage, which also builds the basis for the Thriller, lack of communication between the Americans and Ramius who’s plan it was to desert and change sides, preventing a war which would cause the end of the world as we know it, finding a saboteur and hiding a, more or less, stolen submarine from another super power.