Color Our World Movies: The Hunt for Red October

This reading list highlights Tom Clancy's works and books by other authors which continue the adventures of his beloved characters. List created for the 7/1/2025 Cary Library Movie Club which was The Hunt for Red October.

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Book cover for "Against all enemies"
Star rating for Against all enemies
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn that neither Moore nor any of his bosses saw coming.
Book cover for "Command authority"
Star rating for Command authority
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan."--
Book cover for "The hunt for Red October"
Star rating for The hunt for Red October
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on"--Amazon.com
Book cover for "Threat vector"
Star rating for Threat vector
Series:
Jack Ryan, Jr volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
For President Jack Ryan, his son Jack Ryan, Jr., and the covert organization known as The Campus, the fight against America’s enemies is never over. But the danger has just hit home in a way they never expected in this #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy thriller....
The Campus has been discovered. And whoever knows they exist knows they can be destroyed. Meanwhile, President Jack Ryan has been swept back into the Oval...
Book cover for "Tom Clancy"
Star rating for Tom Clancy
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Marine officer. CIA analyst. President. Jack Ryan has devoted his life to protecting the United States. What if this time, he can't?
Book cover for "Tom Clancy point of contact"
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Series:
Jack Ryan, Jr volume 7.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"In the latest electrifying adventure in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series, Jack Ryan, Jr., learns that sometimes the deadliest secret may be standing right next to you. Former U.S. Senator Weston Rhodes is a defense contractor with an urgent problem. His company needs someone to look over the books of Dalfan Technologies, a Singapore company--quickly. He turns to his old friend Gerry Hendley for help. Hendley Associates is one of...
Book cover for "Tom Clancy power and empire"
Star rating for Tom Clancy power and empire
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"A newly belligerent Chinese government leaves US President Jack Ryan with only a few desperate options in this continuation of the #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy series. Jack Ryan is dealing with an aggresive challenge from the Chinese government. Pawns are being moved around a global chessboard: an attack on an oil platform in Africa, a terrorist strike on an American destroyer and a storm tossed American spy ship that may fall into Chinese...
Book cover for "Tom Clancy under fire"
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Series:
Jack Ryan, Jr volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"Jack Ryan, Jr. clashes with Russian intelligence in a race to find a missing agent who holds secrets vital to both sides in this continuation of Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series"--
Book cover for "Tom Clancy's Op-Center : Into the fire"
Star rating for Tom Clancy's Op-Center : Into the fire
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"When a team of assassins murder a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep, making it look like a robbery, events are set in motion that could shake the balance of world powers. Meanwhile, a U.S. naval combat ship, the USS Milwaukee, is attacked by North Korean forces in the middle of a training exercise off the shore of South Korea, and Commander Kate Bigelow is forced to ground the ship to avoid being captured. The crew takes...
Book cover for "True faith and allegiance"
Star rating for True faith and allegiance
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
"After years of facing international threats, President Jack Ryan learns that the greatest dangers always come from within. . . It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea, U.S. Navy Commander Scott Hagan, captain of the USS James Greer, is on leave when he is attacked by an armed man in a crowded restaurant. Hagan is shot, but he manages to fight off the attacker. Though severely wounded, the gunman reveals he is...