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Red Storm Rising

Written by: Tom Clancy
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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When Muslim 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. Genre Fiction International Mystery & Crime Military Mystery Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Espionage Fiction Technology Thriller War Russia Soviet Union Suspense Imperialism Air Force Cold War
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What the critics say

Praise for Red Storm Rising

“Exciting...fast and furious.”—USA Today

“A rattling good yarn...lots of action.”—The New York Times

Praise for Tom Clancy

“He constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A brilliant describer of events.”—The Washington Post

“No one can equal his talent for making military electronics and engineering intelligible and exciting...He remains the best!”—Houston Chronicle
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Prichard's voice works wonderfully for this one. Well-read.

As for the story: it's an interesting read as an alt-history (though it was written as near-future extrapolation), but it's both too sprawling and too focused to excel. Meaning: the story is so broad in its aspirational scope (a full-out World War 3 between NATO and the USSR) that the reader can't help but feel shortchanged when it doesn't live up to it (for example, an all-encompassing World War should involve the World - rather than just Iceland, Germany, and the North Atlantic); and the decision to anchor this tale to the perspectives of a few figures in the three military theaters emphasizes this shortcoming. Thin characters don't help, but I suppose we're not really coming to Tom Clancy for deep meditations on humanity's nature.

Enjoyable, but not as good as his later work, and not something I'd return to.

Middling Military Fiction

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enjoyable voice to listen to, perfect to hear during a daily commute, good characters, well done

great story

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loved the story, and the storyline still relative to todays politics between Russia, US and NATO.

Story today as good today as first time read book

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QA on the narration was pretty poor. lost track of the times he called it a "submarine" gun.

good story narration needs a bit of work.

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A great even sided war book, one of the best you will read! Tom Clancy at his finest.

Best War Book

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