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  • Written by: Tom Clancy
  • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
  • Length: 31 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (190 ratings)

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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.

©1987 Tom Clancy (P)2010 Random House

What the critics say

“Exciting...fast and furious.” (USA Today)

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

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Middling Military Fiction

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.

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Classic and hard to beat

Great book! Will be listening to again at some point love Tom Clancy’s books hard to beat in my opinion. It’s amazing how well Tom Clancy predicted certain aspects of how a Soviet style attack on western style forces would play out. This book is constantly referenced by commentators on the war in Ukraine and it’s pretty dead on. Recommended listening!!

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Decent but weak.

Loads of high tech & weapon details but weak on story and characters. Narrative is monotone

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kept me up

Was hard to set the story down. only fault was he writes the enemy a little too dumb sometimes and or unlucky.

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One of the best

A complex beautifully crafted story that holds up well all these years later. Complex characters intertwined in a plausible tale of what could have been.

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20 years and just as good

I had the pleasure of reading this 20 years ago skipping 5 period math to finish another chapter. 20 years later and this art of fiction is still just as captivating.

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  • 2022-08-04

Detail, plots, twists, turns, great characters!

What else would you expect? Typical Tom Clancy level of knowledge and detail...astounding!! His knowledge of terms, tactics, politics, equipment and behaviour is staggering and you can't listen without being in absolute awe of how much work he puts into his books.
This one has lots of suspense and lots of amazing resolutions. No end left untied and all story lines concluded. Pretty incredible.
If you like submarines, planes, underdogs who pull off amazing feats and cold war politics, you'll love it.

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  • 2022-06-14

Amazing

Absolutely amazing, the book, the narrator, the author. Everything is impeccable. This is my favourite book!

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The best WWIII Fiction Ever!!

one of 5he longest books I have actually read. 1st time in grade nine 1991. Found this book in my high school library. I have read it five times and now listened once. it would be a long one, but a great movie could be made based on this novel. WWIII fiction at it's best!!

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good story narration needs a bit of work.

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

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