Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!julian From: julian@osu-eddie.UUCP (Julian Gomez) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Re: thriller? Message-ID: <1034@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 17:10:04 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.1034 Posted: Wed Dec 18 17:10:04 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Dec-85 05:36:20 EST References: <8056@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: Ohio State Univ., CIS Dept., Cols, Oh. Lines: 15 > A recent book along these lines that I would recommend is Tom Clancy's "The > Hunt for Red October". It's about the officers of a Russian missile sub who > are trying to defect, taking the sub with them. It works nicely as a "The Hunt for Red October" has been out in paperback for a couple of months from Berkley Books. If you want a copy you can have mine. The book gets jingoistic at times; it proceeds on the assumption that the USA is always right and the USSR is always wrong. Clancy did take pains, however, to attempt to make the Russian persons human. -- "If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?" Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez Computer Graphics Research Group, The Ohio State University {ucbvax,decvax}!cbosg!osu-eddie!julian