The Hunt for Red OctoberThe runaway international No. 1 bestseller that launched Tom Clancys spectacular career became a blockbuster film and introduced Jack Ryan. THE HUNT IS ON Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russias ultra secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. With all out war only seconds away, the superpowers race across the ocean on the most desperate mission of a lifetime.