Red Storm Rising 📖

Red Storm Rising

Tom Clancy
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military fiction alternate history war thriller past tense third limited POV ~1,064 pp

Vibe

tense gritty bleak

A propulsive and dark military fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 85
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 40
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count265,897
Page count~1,064 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited