Tom Clancy

When Ex-Navy SEAL and CIA operative Maxwell Moore barely survives a prisoner exchange that goes explosively wrong off the coast of Pakistan, he realises that powerful, cunning forces have been marshalled against him. Determined to dig out the truth, he uncovers a shocking conspiracy.

Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia's ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, captained by Marko Ramius, is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. Jack Ryan, an analyst working for the Central Intelligence Agency, must prove his theory that Ramius is intending to defect to the United States. With all-out war only seconds away, the superpowers race across the ocean on the most desperate mission of a lifetime.