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The Red October is a Soviet nuclear missile submarine on a rogue mission to defect to the United States. With U.S. Navy and Soviet forces racing across the Atlantic, Tom Clancy delivers a gripping, meticulously researched Cold War espionage thriller that captures the tension of submarine warfare and intelligence conflict.
First publish date: February 1988
Genre: Suspense/Action Suspense
Authors: Tom Clancy
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