Tom Clancy

The Hunt for Red October


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      All the characters in this book, with the exception of Sergey Gorshkov, Yuri Padorin, Oleg Penkovskiy, Valery Sablin, Hans Tofte, and Greville Wynne, are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The names, incidents, dialogue and opinions expressed are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Nothing is intended or should be interpreted as expressing or representing the views of the US Navy or any other department or agency of any government body.

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1985

      First published in the USA by Naval Institute Press 1984

      Copyright © Jack Ryan Enterprises, Ltd 1984

      Tom Clancy asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      ‘He constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale’

       New York Times

      ‘Heart-stopping action … entertaining and eminently topical’

       Washington Post

      ‘Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict’

       Sunday Times

      ‘A brilliantly constructed thriller that packs a punch like Semtex’

       Daily Mail

      ‘A virtuoso display of page-turning talent’

       Sunday Express

      For Ralph Chatham,

      a sub driver who spoke the truth,

      and for all the men who wear dolphins

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       Title Page

       The Seventh Day: Thursday, 9 December

       The Eighth Day: Friday, 10 December

       The Ninth Day: Saturday, 11 December

       The Tenth Day: Sunday, 12 December

       The Eleventh Day: Monday, 13 December

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       The Sixteenth Day: Saturday, 18 December

       The Seventeenth Day: Sunday, 19 December

       The Eighteenth Day: Monday, 20 December

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Tom Clancy

       About the Publisher

       Friday, 3 December

      THE RED OCTOBER

      Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions