Tom Clancy/The Hunt For Red October

Clancy's first novel. The story follows the intertwining adventures of a Soviet submarine captain who intends to defect to the United States with his officers and the experimental missile submarine Red October, and a CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, who figures out what the submarine is up to and through a combination of circumstances becomes responsible for seeing the sub to safety from the pursuing Soviet naval fleet.

The novel is sometimes referred to as the first real example of the techno-thriller?, a hybrid between the spy thriller and science fiction in which attention to technical and operational detail about military and intelligence activities is paramount.

Many of the characters in the novel appear throughout Clancy's subsequent works.

The novel was made into a commercially-successful movie starring Sean Connery, [Alec Baldwin]? and featuring [James Earl Jones]?.