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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 4
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English
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Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on.--Amazon.com
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A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captian Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003], c1990
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English
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A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
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In 1984, Tom Clancy released his blockbuster novel, The Hunt for Red October, an edge-of-your seat thriller that skyrocketed him into international notoriety. The inspiration for that novel came from an obscure report by a US naval officer of a mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic Sea. The Hunt for Red October actually happened, and Boris Gindin lived through every minute of it. After decades of silence and fear, Gindin has finally come forward...
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
©2007
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English
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The hunt for Red October: A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius...
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Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Hunt for Red October: A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
Patriot...
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"What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's "ghost fleet." Fighter pilots unleash a Pearl Harbor-style...
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"Remy is a Chorister, rescued from the surface world and raised to sing in a choir of young boys. Remy is part of a strange crew who control the Leviathan, an aging nuclear submarine, that bears a sacred mission: to trigger the Second Coming when the time is right. But Remy has a secret too--she's the submarine's only girl. Gifted with the missile's launch key by the Leviathan's dying caplain, she swears to keep it safe. Safety, however, is not the...
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Another Time, Another Place showcases Sean Connery in one of his earliest leading roles. Young and handsome, Connery displays the commanding presence and suave charm he's brought to over 30 years of memorable films, ranging from the James Bond series to The Untouchables (for which he won an Oscar) to The Hunt For Red October and beyond. Connery plays a World War II BBC newsman torn between two women. Lana Turner portrays the glamorous reporter Connery...
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Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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The most riveting reads in history meet today's biggest thriller writers in Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads.Edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads examines 100 seminal works of suspense through essays contributed by such esteemed modern thriller writers as: David Baldacci, Steve Berry, Sandra Brown, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen, Heather Graham, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds, Katherine Neville, Michael Palmer, James
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Fans of Top Gun, The Hunt for Red October, and Forrest Gump will love this epic tale of struggle, tenacity, and heroism.
Separated in age by eighteen years, Ron and Steve Lambrecht lived under the same farmhouse roof for only six months, yet both left the Minnesota cornfields of their birth for distinctly different roads of military achievement.
Their joint memoir, Boundless Brothers: Two Warriors from the Heartland, One Mission for the Homeland,...
15) The Good Spy
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In the icy waters of the northern Pacific, a top-secret mission threatens to explode into a nuclear crisis . . .
A Russian military spy sub lies marooned in American waters near the U.S.-Canadian border. Yuri Kirov, a seasoned security officer, is in charge of the crew's safety--and the operation's success. His only hope is to make a death-defying underwater escape, reach shore undetected, and convince a total stranger that the fate of the world...
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A history of the controversial attack sub traces the story of the submarine's invention, exploring how self-taught innovator John Philip Holland's obsession with the idea of controlled undersea navigation led to decades of skepticism, setbacks, and innovation.
"The enthralling history of the attack submarine--and the story of its colorful creator, John Philip Holland--that reveals how this imaginative invention changed the face of modern warfare....
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English
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The most riveting reads in history meet today's biggest thriller writers in Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads.
Edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads examines 100 seminal works of suspense through essays contributed by such esteemed modern thriller writers as: David Baldacci, Steve Berry, Sandra Brown, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen, Heather Graham, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds, Katherine Neville, Michael Palmer, James...
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-Ernest Hemingway's attitude toward punctuation. -Tom Clancy on the fact that he had never been in a submarine before writing The Hunt for Red October.-Gay Talese's commitment to reporting.-Thomas Jefferson on the value of using fewer words.
These are just a few of the gems that you will find in this jewelry box of information, ideas, and instruction on writing and the writing life.
Jim Stovall taught writing for more than 40 years and is the author...
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Can we uninstall 2020 and install it again? This version has a virus.
The Internet has been working overtime with humorous memes, tweets, Facebook postings, Pinterest collections, you name it during the pandemic crisis. This outpouring of gallows humor suggests that we're coping with our profound grief and overcoming our fears, and we're going to eventually make it out of this, with our sense of humor, and self, intact. This book collects the best...
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Memes have played an important part in helping us get through 2020. With lockdowns around the world, audiences have not been able to attend stand-up comedy performances. But, meme-writers have rushed in to fill the gap, offering up the topical observational humor formerly the realm of stand-ups. Memes offer a comedic outlet available to all. If there's just one good thing to come out of the pandemic, it could be the ascendancy of the meme. They predated...
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