Darren’s Reviews > Red Storm Rising (Lib) > Status Update

It's.... been a minute since I last read this. I've been wondering the whole time if I was just imagining the whole "Russia needs grain" aspect of the plot, since it's all been about oil, and doubting my memory, honestly. But it's starting to kick in again as a major factor in a possible war.

I read this book when I was a kid... 14 or 15. I haven't read it since, which is to say it's been a long time. I wish I had the F. Murray Abraham version, just because, but the book still pulls you in. Clancy in the 80s was a different beast than he became. Engineers and analysts are the heroes, as much or more as the soldiers. Still very rah rah rah, but immersive.