Red Storm Rising
- 888
- Pages
- about 16 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Red Storm Rising” fights a Third World War without nuclear weapons across land, sea and air, and its breadth is the attraction. Over nearly nine hundred pages Clancy and Larry Bond move between fighter pilots, submarine crews, special forces and tank units. Objections come from readers who think the view tilts towards officers, who miss characters and a story, or who find the Cold War scenario dated and dull.
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About the book
Red Storm Rising is a war novel, written by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond, and released on August 7, 1986. Set in the mid-1980s, it features a Third World War between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact forces, and is notable for depicting the conflict as being fought exclusively with conventional weapons, rather than escalating to the use of weapons of mass destruction or nuclear warfare. It is one of two Clancy novels, along with SSN (1996), that are not set in the Ryanverse.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 284 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 66% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 8.0. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 108 | 38% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 176 | 62% |
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