Red Storm Rising

Red Storm Rising was the second book written by Tom Clancy, co-written by Larry Bond, and is a standalone novel. It was published in 1986 while the Cold War as still going on. Muslim extremists attack an a large oil refinery and the adjacent oil fields in the Soviet Union, setting them on fire and causing an oil shortage in the Soviet Union which would last at least a few years. Because of that, the Soviet leaders decide that they are going to forcibly take an oil field in the Middle East, but before the can do that, they need to prevent NATO from getting in their way. The only way they know of doing that is by dissolving the NATO alliance by starting a war bin Europe and blaming it on Germany. But does their plan work?

This is a well crafted technothriller with plenty of action. It follows characters in the United States, Iceland, England, Scotland, Belgium, and the Soviet Union and has plenty of action on land, in the air and at sea.

If interested in reading this book, you can purchase it in various formats at the following sites:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Storm-Rising-Tom-Clancy-ebook/dp/B001QEAQQC/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1517414724&sr=1-3&keywords=red+storm+rising

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/red-storm-rising-tom-clancy/1100310491?ean=9780425101070#/

World of Sleuths Rating: *****

(Five out of five stars)