Makes The Story Jack Ryan Essay - 1,778 words

Marko Ramius is the captain of the Russian super-submarine 'Red October'. The Red October is a modified submarine of the Typhoon-class and is nuclear powered. The 'October' can carry twenty-six nuclear missiles, enough firepower to blow up the city of Washington for about twenty times. To test this very expensive submarine (billions of dollars! ), the Russian navy has to find the 'Red October' in the Atlantic Ocean. Because the 'Red October' has a new propulsion-system that is very silent, it will be (almost) impossible to find the October by using sonar. Marko Ramius is one of the best captains of Russia, but what the Russian government doesn't know is that Ramius wants to take revenge on Russia, because his parents were killed by Russians.


Ramius wants to desert to America. The 'Red October' leaves the dock and is heading to the Atlantic Ocean. When the 'October' is on the sea, Ramius ordered to go on using the soundless propulsion. The Russian government recieves a letter from Ramius, who wrote earlier that he is going to America.


The KGB and the government order all Russian submarines to find the 'Red October' and destroy it. Jack Ryan is a young, talented member of the CIA. He goes to James Greer, one of the staff chiefs, to show him photographs of the 'Red October'. He got these pictures from America's spy in Russia, called 'the Cardinal'. On the pictures, which are made in a secret dock in the northern Russia, Jack can see four strange 'doors', two on the fore-part, two on the stern. Jack thinks that that is some strange propulsion-system.


On the sea, the American submarine 'Dallas' can hear a strange noise very weakly. After a few minutes of communication, the 'Dallas' has permission for following the strange sound. Jack Ryan tells the president about the situation: the whole Russian navy is coming to the coast of America, maybe an attack. The president sends Ryan to the (plane) carrier 'Kennedy' to see the situation from 'behind the scenes'. From that ship, a pilot brings Ryan to the English carrier 'Invincible'.


On the 'Red October', the ship's doctor studies the radiation-films of the crew and notices that the radiation in the ship is for too high. There must be a leak in the nuclear reactor. After a long search with different devices, nothing is found. After a second search in the nuclear chamber, a leak is found.


A mechanic fixes the leak, but it's clear that somebody sabotaged the engine. In the White House, the president tells the Russian ambassador that America will help Russia to find the lost submarine. (Russia declared that the whole mission is based on a lost submarine they want to find). America is only helping to have an excuse for defending it's coastline. In the meantime, on the Atlantic Ocean, a Russian submarine called 'Politovski', has an accident with the nuclear reactor and sinks.


Above the ocean, American jet planes (F- 15 'Eagle' and F- 14 'Tomcat') are patrolling the air. They meet two JAK's (Russian jets) and one of the JAK's shoots one of the Tomcats. An old American submarine called 'USS Ethan Allen' is going to the Atlantic Ocean, her last trip. On the 'Dallas', they hear that strange sound again, it's the 'Red October'. Then suddenly the 'Red October' turns a whole circle, a so called 'crazy Iwan'. They do that to see (on the sonar) if somebody is following them.


After the second 'crazy Iwan', the 'October' discovers the 'Dallas'. The captain got orders from Washington to get into contact with the 'October'. The captain sends a message to the 'October'. The 'October' has to come with them to a location, 33 N 75 W.


On the trip to that location, the nuclear power source of the 'Red October' fails, they go on with the diesel-engine. Ramius notices that they got away from the Americans. Ryan goes with a volunteer to an American submarine 'Pigeon'. The 'Pigeon' is only a few miles from the 'October', which isn't moving because the diesel-engine failed too (sabotage). With a small submarine, the 'Mystic', Ryan and the volunteer are going to the 'Red October'. Through different locks they get into the 'Red October'.


There they meet Marko Ramius and his crew. With the 'Mystic' they get the crew from the 'October', by 25 people at the time. Ramius, his officers, Jack Ryan and the volunteer are left in the 'October'. Ramius says that he wants to live in America, his officers want that too. To get the October to a more safe area, Ryan helps to navigate and steers the submarine to Ocracoke Inlet. In the meantime, the 'USS Ethan Allen' is blown up.


They do that to let the Russians think that the 'Red October' is destroyed. The whole Russian navy returns to Russia. In the 'Red October' is a man left behind in the front of the ship, the cook. He is hired by the KGB to stop the 'October' in cases like desertion. He wants to blow up the ship. Ryan shoots him, Ramius got a bullet in his leg.


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