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Hardcover Cloth 387 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. First edition later printing with corresponding number line 1984. Beautiful red boards and silver embossing with embossed hammer and sickle over submarine on cover show off this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Slight shelf wear. Previous owners name written on front endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket with a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Here is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so gripping in its action and so convincing in its accuracy that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House. Its theme: the greatest espionage coup in history. Its story: the chase for a top secret Russian missile sub. Lauded by the Washington Post as "breathlessly exciting." The Hunt for Red October remains a masterpiece of military fiction by one of the world's most popular authors, a man whose shockingly… Read More