Red Storm Rising
1983
- world war iii
- fiction
- imaginary wars and battles
- spanish language materials
- guerre mondiale, 3e
- romans, nouvelles
- guerres et batailles imaginaires
- guerra mundial iii
- novela
- guerras imaginarias
The story
Terrorists attack the USSR, they respond by attacking western Europe to replace the oil assets destroyed by the terrorists. Who will win?
What it’s like
Dense, procedural prose that reads like a briefing binder come to life: long stretches of military hardware specifications, naval chart work, staff meetings in grey conference rooms, and cold tactical arithmetic delivered in a confident, almost journalistic third person. The sensory world is one of steel-grey North Atlantic swells, sonar pings, diesel fumes, fluorescent-lit command bunkers and the hum of radio traffic, with the cold, damp northern-Europe weather doing constant quiet work. Its rhythm is brisk and accumulative, cutting between many viewpoints so that the pages feel like a wall of parallel operations ticking forward toward a single clock. Emotionally it sits in cool, sober, faintly unnerving territory, a sense of rising dread driven by logistics rather than by gore; the violence is large-scale and mechanical, with sea and air battles described in clinical detail, and some deaths land with brief, unsentimental sharpness. Sexual content is minimal and the tone is more tense than cruel. Best for readers who love technical detail, geopolitical what-ifs, and the satisfaction of watching many moving pieces click into place, rather than anyone wanting something gentle or intimate.
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