From the reviews of The Hunt for Red October: ‘A snakily plotted, fast-moving blockbuster … terrifying tension to the last page’ Daily Mail ‘Flawless authenticity… frighteningly genuine.’Wall Street Journal ‘Offers an extraordinarily detailed glimpse into the secret world of nuclear submarines, and the potentially deadly cat-and-mouse games played by superpowers beneath the oceans’ Sunday Times ‘Absolutely terrific: entertaining, suspenseful and masterfully written… superlative.’Washington Times ‘The Pentagon almost exploded when this book was published’ Daily Telegraph ‘A compelling story … rivetingly plausible’ Observer ‘Gripping narrative … navy buffs and thriller adepts have been mesmerised by the story of Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius, who seeks to defect to the US, bringing a billion-dollar submarine with him’ Time Magazine

• New cover reprint of a classic backlist title • Whole Clancy backlist is being repackaged in the style of the jacket of his latest phenomenal record-breaking No 1 bestseller, Executive Orders • One of the best-known and biggest-selling thrillers of recent years – the much-imitated novel that created the technothriller market, made Clancy’s name and became a highly successful film, starring Sean Connery • So convincing in its accuracy that the author was rumoured to have been debriefed by the White House • Almost 1,000,000 copies of the Fontana/HarperCollins paperback sold