Jules Verne, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, 1870 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Richard Henrick, “Crimson Tide”, 1995 also was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Tom Clancy, “The Hunt for Red October”, 1984 which was a naval-SciFi thriller. The book consists of eighteen (18) chapter; and, the first sentence of each chapter is shown BELOW.
Chapter #. Chapter First Sentence.
- Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Artic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy.”
2. “It was the custom in the Soviet Navy for the commanding officer to announce his ship’s operational orders and to exhort the crew to carry them out in true Soviet fashion.”
3. “The Red October had no time of her own: for her the sun neither rose nor set, and the days of the week had little significance.”
4. Jack Ryan walked down the corridor on the top floor of the Langley, Virginia headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency”.
5. “It was not the grandest office in the Kremlin, but it suited his needs.”
6. “Ryan had been to the office of the director of Central Intelligence several times before to deliver briefing and occassional personal messages from Sir Basil Charleston to his highness, the DCI.”
7. “When Samuel Johnson compared sailing in a ship to ‘being in jail, with the chance of being drowned,’ at least he had the consolation of traveling to his ship in a safe carriage Ryan thought .”
8. “Ryan awoke in the dark: the curtains were drawn on the cabin’s two small portholes.”
9. “A female yeoman first class held the door open for Tyler: he walked in to find General Harris standing alone over the large chart table pondering the placement of tiny ship models “
10. “At SOSUS Control in Norfolk, the picture was becoming increasingly difficult: the United States simply did not have the technology to keep track of submarines in the deep ocean basins.”
11. “It was a lot more fun than flying DC-9s: Major Andy Richardson had over ten thousand hours in those and only six hundred or so in his A-10 Thunderbolt II strike fighter, but he much preferred the smaller of the twin-engine aircraft.”
12. “Crazy Ivan: Jones shouted loudly enough to be heard in the attack center – Turning to starboard.”
13. “Crazy Ivan: Jones called out again – Turning to port.”
14. “They were traveling at one hundred fifty knots, thousand feet over the darkened sea.”
15. “There was no moon: the three-ship procession entered the inlet at five knots, just after midnight to take advantage of the extra-high spring tide.”
16. “The USS Pigeon arrived at her dock in Charleston at four in the morning.”
17. “Eight more hours, Ryan whispered to himself: that’s what they had told him.”
18. “Ryan again found himself atop the sail thanks to Ramius, who said that he earned it.”
END. “The sky was overcast, and when the aircraft burst through the cloud layer into sunlight, Ryan did something he had never done before: for the first time in his life, Jack Ryan fell asleep on an airplane.”
Here I presented: Tom Clancy, “The Hunt for Red October”, 1984 which was a naval-SciFi thriller.
SUMMARY.
This novel tells the 1984 story of agonist character, Captain Marko Ramius, the skipper of the Soviet Union’s newest (in 1984) nuclear submarine, the “Red October”. The protagonist of this novel, Jack Ryan of the CIA gets involved in a tense, tangled hunt for this submarine, when Captain Marko Ramius defects to the USA to prevent the Russians from using it to start nuclear war.
Sean Connery plays the role of Captain Marko Ramius in the 1990 film-adaptation of the novel; and, Hollywood actor James Earl Jones plays an American Navy admiral.
Jules Verne, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, 1870 was the topic of an earlier blog post
Richard Henrick, “Crimson Tide”, 1995 also was the topic of an earlier blog post.
