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Greer is also paranoid that the russians will attack at any moment, he is always telling Jack to find the submarine sooner or they might all be in danger. The CIA assigns him to help Ramius escape. When Ryan picks Laurentian Abyssal as 'someplace deep' where Ramius can stage the the nuclear accident on the Red October he has in his hands a pen and notepad to write the name of the location down, as he's reading the charts, but he never actually write the name of the location down. He is a deep thinker and always has good imput when they are in the board meetings. He is basicly Jack Ryans advisor and is the one who called in Jack to the special operation. Atfer retiring from being an officer, he became a deputy director of the CIA. Vice Admiral James Greer: Main Character, Protagonist, James Greer is a retired Naval officer. The authors highly collected and most desirable first book. Captain Marko is very arrogant and bosses his crew around like they are his slaves. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, Naval Institute Press, 1984, first edition, lower fore edge corner tips gently bumped, else vg+ or better in a vg dust-wrapper with a closed tear to the upper right area of the rear dust-wrapper panel. Ramius is determined to show the american people that the soviet union is still a superpower. He is very smart and he thinks one step ahead of the americans the whole time. Ramius is an evil captain and plans to launch Nuclear missles at the US navy. In the begining of the book he kills in cold blood to prevent his plans from being ruined. He is a sadist in the fact that he gets pleasure from hurting others. Ryan is very precosious in the fact that he is so young and so talented at analyzing enemy tactics.Ĭaptain Marko Ramius: Main Chacter, Antagonist, Captian first rank in the soviet super vessel 'The Red October'. This time he has to take on the russians and thier mysterious submarine vessel named 'The Red October'. Jack gets involved in all sorts of top secret military operations. He is determined and smart, and has a backround in history and economics. It was inspired by two real events: (1) the deviation of a Soviet Navy submarine to Gotland in 1961 by Captain Jonas Pleskys (a Lithuanian), and (2) a 1975 mutiny aboard the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy, which was an attempt to defect to Gotland by Captain Valery Sablin. Jack Ryan: Main character, Protagonist, he is a CIA analist and he lives in London. The Hunt for Red October is a 1984 novel by American author Tom Clancy.

Hunt for red october reactor meltdown in the book