I'm nearing the end of The Hunt For Red October. I remembered I liked reading Clancy's Politika when I was a teenager and the recent show of Jack Ryan made me curious about the books.

I found out that there are some major movie titles based on Jack Ryan books, like October but also The Sum of All Fears, Clear and Present Danger and Rainbow Six, which is of course a video game series.

It's pretty fun to read the books and imagine Jack Ryan played by John Krasinski.

English is not my native language but if at all possible I try to read these kinds of books in the original language. Clancy is a good writer, although sometimes punctuation could provide a bit more readability.

In any event, it's a book that finds it drive very late, but somehow keeps you engaged through some really boring chapters because you continuously feel something big is going to happen soon. When it does find its drive, it's a bit anticlimactic. Over the entity of the book (or at least where I'm currently at) especially dialog and character description made it a very lively book. Clancy is also pretty detailed when it comes to army, navy and air force stuffs. It just feels well-researched, even though it's fully possible it's all incorrect.