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First printing with all points. No price on the jacket flap, 18 lines of print on copyright page, six blurbs on the rear panel of the jacket with Cussler's being the third. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Tom Clancy s thrilling debut novel. "The Hunt for Red October" is about Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst who attempts to help Soviet officers defect to the United States with a top secret nuclear submarine. Jack Ryan would return in numerous other Clancy novels, including "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger." Clancy hadn t been able to get the book published by any large publishing house, so he sent it to the Naval Institute Press (on a lark) who then agreed to publish it. Unsurprisingly, it has been their most successful published work of fiction. The book would become a best-seller after Ronald Reagan praised it as a "perfect yarn." "The Hunt for Red October" would go on to be adapted into a 1990 film, starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. "Absolutely terrific: entertaining, suspenseful and masterfully written! superlative." (Contemporary Washington Times review). Fine in Fine dust jacket.

The Hunt for Red October is a technothriller by Tom Clancy. The story follows a Soviet submarine captain who wishes to defect to the United States along with his officers and the Soviet Navy's newest ballistic missile submarine, Red October. A CIA analyst named Jack Ryan is tasked with interpreting the defector's moves and intentions.