The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, Book 1) by Tom Clancy
By Tom Clancy
Gripping army mystery in regards to the chase after a top-secret Russian missile submarine.
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It missed, dropping to the concrete floor. The letter would be placed aboard the train a day late. The sorter didn't care. There was a hockey game that night, the biggest game of the young season, Central Army against Wings. He had a liter of vodka bet on Wings. Morrow, England "Halsey's greatest popular success was his greatest error. In establishing himself as a popular hero with legendary aggressiveness, the admiral would blind later generations to his impressive intellectual abilities and a shrewd gambler's instinct to-" Jack Ryan frowned at his computer.
At the michman's station the speed gauge, which had dropped to five knots, began to creep upward again. Forward of the missile room, in a space shoehorned into the crew's accommodations, the handful of sleeping men stirred briefly in their bunks as they noted an intermittent rumble aft and the hum of electric motors a few feet away, separated from them by the pressure hull. They were tired enough even on their first day at sea to ignore the noise, fighting back to their precious allotment of sleep.
Ramius stood and dialed in his three-element combination. Putin did the same, and the captain flipped the lever to open the safe's circular door. Inside was a manila envelope plus four books of cipher keys and missile-targeting coordinates. " Ramius asked theatrically. " Putin smiled. " Ramius broke the wax seal on the envelope and extracted the four-page operation order. He read it quickly. It was not complicated. "So, we are to proceed to grid square 54-90 and rendezvous with our attack submarine V.