Typhoon-class and is nuclear powered. The 'October' can carry twenty-six nuclear missiles, enough firepower to blow up the city of Washington for about twenty times.

To test this very expensive submarine (billions of dollars!), the Russian navy has to find the 'Red October' in the Atlantic Ocean. Because the 'Red October' has a new propulsion-system that is very silent, it will be (almost) impossible to find the October by using sonar.

Marko Ramius is one of the best captains of Russia, but what the Russian government doesn't know is that Ramius wants to take revenge on Russia, because his parents were killed by Russians. Ramius wants to desert to America.

The 'Red October' leaves the dock and is heading to the Atlantic Ocean. When the 'October' is on the sea, Ramius ordered to go on using the soundless propulsion.

The Russian government recieves a letter from Ramius, who wrote earlier that he is going to America. The KGB and the government order all Russian submarines to find the 'Red October' and destroy it.

Jack Ryan is a young, talented member of the CIA. He goes to James Greer, one of

9) The complete book is written in chronological order. It's like a diary; it starts december 3rd and ends december 20th of a year. I don't know what year. There could be a (few) flashback(s) in the story; chapter three is about the youth of Marko Ramius.

Above the ocean, American jetplanes (F-15 'Eagle' and F-14 'Tomcat') are patrolling the air. They meet two JAK's (Russian jets) and one of the JAK's shoots one of the Tomcats.

I don't really see a link or connection between the very beginnig and the very end. The only possible link could be the fact that in the beginning the 'Red October' is leaving the Russian docks. At the end the 'Red October' arrives -damaged- in Norfolk in America.

I also like the figure Marko Ramius. Although he is very strict, he is friendly to (almost) everybody. When he talks to somebody he likes, he ends his sentence with the word 'comrade', even the person is an ordinary seaman.

Not the whole Russian navy returned to Russia, one 'Alfa' submarine stopped and went back to the American coast. On the sonar they noticed that the 'Red October' wasn't destroyed at all. The 'Alfa' shoots and hit the 'Red October' in the side. The 'Red October' is damaged, but is still able to float. The 'Red October' gives full throttle and rams the Russian 'Alfa'. The 'Alfa' sinks immediately.

The 'Red October' leaves the Russian dock and is guided by a small boat. It is very cold, it's december 3rd. 'Zampolit' Poetin (political officer) talks with captain Ramius about their mission: a practice, just to test the Red October. (Later in the story, Ramius kills Poetin because Poetin

14) The story happened in the winter of an unknown year from December 3rd to December 20th.

the staff chiefs, to show him photographs of the 'Red October'. He got these pictures from America's spy in Russia, called 'the Cardinal'. On the pictures, which are made in a secret dock in the northern Russia, Jack can see four strange 'doors', two on the fore-part, two on the stern. Jack thinks that that is some strange propulsion-system.

'The man in front of him was quite small, but heavily built. He had three stripes on his shoulder, a lot of ribbons on his chest and a broad golden stripe on his sleeve. So this was Marko Ramius...' (page 231)

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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)