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Cardinal of the Kremlin

78.6% complete
1988
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Never (or unknown...)
Intelligence service - United States - Fiction
Ryan, Jack (Fictitious character) - Fiction
Spy stories
See 29
Prologue - Threats - Old, New, and Timeless
1 - The Reception of the Party
2 - Tea Clipper
3 - The Weary Red Fox
4 - Bright Stars and Fast Ships
5 - Eye of the Snake / Face of the Dragon
6 - One of by Land
7 - Catalysts
8 - Document Transfer
9 - Opportunities
10 - Damage Assessment
11 - Procedures
12 - Success and Failure
13 - Councils
14 - Changes
15 - Culmination
16 - Damage Assessment
17 - Conspiracy
18 - Advantages
19 - Travelers
20 - The Key of Destiny
21 - Knave's Gambit
22 - Active Measures
23 - Best-Laid Plans
24 - The Rules of the Game
25 - Convergence
26 - Black Operations
27 - Under Wraps
Epilogue - Common Ground
Book Cover
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 Jack Ryan World*
#3 of 17
Jack Ryan World*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of novels written by Tom Clancy featuring the character Jack Ryan or taking place in the same fictional world.  I've only included books written by Tom Clancy in this list.

1) The Hunt for Red October
2) Patriot Games
3) Cardinal of the Kremlin
4) Clear and Present Danger
5) The Sum of All Fears
6) Without Remorse
7) Debt of Honor
8) Executive Orders
9) Rainbow Six
10) The Bear and the Dragon
11) Red Rabbit
12) The Teeth of the Tiger
13) Dead or Alive
14) Locked On
15) Threat Vector
16) Command Authority
17) Support and Defend
Copyright © 1988 by Jack Ryan Enterprises Ltd.
For Colonel and Mrs. F. Carter Cobb
They called him the Archer.
May contain spoilers
He walked off to his car, leaving Dalmatov with the thought.
No comments on file
Extract (may contain spoilers)
JACK didn't bother asking which "asset" had confirmed Major Gregory's suspicions.  Field operations were something that he struggled - successfully for the most part - to keep at arm's length.  What mattered was that the information was graded as Class-1 for reliability - CIA's newly adopted grading system used numbers 1-5 instead of letters A-E, surely the result of six months' hard work by some deputy-assistant-to educated at Harvard Business School.

"What about specific technical information?"

"I'll let you know when it comes in," Greer replied.

"I got two weeks to deliver, boss," Ryan pointed out.  Deadlines were never fun.  This was especially true when the document being prepared was for the President's eyes.

"I do seem to recall reading that somewhere or other, Jack," the Admiral noted dryly.  "The people at ACDA are calling me every day for the damned thing, too.  I think what we'll do is have you run over to brief them in person."

Ryan winced.  The whole point of his Special National Intelligence Estimate was to help set the stage for the next session of arms negotiations.  The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency needed it also, of course, so that they'd know what to demand and how much they could safely concede.  That was quite a bit of additional weight on his shoulders, but as Greer liked to tell him, Ryan did his best work under pressure.  Jack wondered if maybe he should screw one up sometime, just to disprove that idea.

"When will I have to go over?"

"I haven't decided yet."

"Can I have a couple of days' warning?"

"We'll see."

 

Added: 24-Dec-2022
Last Updated: 08-May-2024

Publications

 26-Jul-1988
G P Putnam's Sons
Hardback
In my libraryOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 26-Jul-1988
Format:
Hardback
Cover Price:
$19.95
Pages*:
543
Catalog ID:
8807
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
43599
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-399-13345-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-399-13345-9
Printing:
2
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Front flap:

The
Cardinal
of the
Kremlin
Tom Clancy


The Cardinal of the Kremlin shows Tom Clancy at the top of his form - the phenomenal new novel by the author of Red Storm Rising.
Tom Clancy has taken us on a hunt for a renegade submarine, into an astonishing scenario for World War III, and to the frontlines of terrorism.  Now he looks to the skies and one of the most remarkable technological competitions of our time - the race to develop "Star Wars."

In a rolling sea off the coast of South America, a target disappears in a puff of green light.  In the Soviet hills of Dushanbe near the Afghanistan border, an other-worldly array of pillars and domes rises into the night.  To the two greatest nations on earth, no contest is more urgent than the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system, and no one knows that more than the two men charged with assessing the Soviets' capabilities: Colonel Mikhail Filitov of the Soviet Union, an old-line warrior distrusted by the army's new inner circle of technocrats, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of the Red October affair.
(Continued on back flag)

Back flap:

(Continued from front flap)

Each must use all his craft to arrive at the truth, but Filitov gets there first - and that's when all hell breaks loose.  Because Filitov, code-named Cardinal, is America's highest agent in the Kremlin, and he is about to be betrayed to the KGB.  His rescue could spell the difference between peace and war, and it is up to Jack Ryan to accomplish it - if he can - as, in a breathtaking sequence of hunter and hunted, Filitov's life, and Ryan's, and that of the world itself literally hang in the balance.

With the exceptional realism and authenticity that have become his hallmark, Clancy puts us again on the cutting edge of modern technology, and humanizes it, taking us deep inside not only the machines but the men, and constructing a story of unrelenting suspense.  In its review of Red Storm Rising, the San Francisco Chronicle said simply, "Tom Clancy is the best there is....  He is a master," and that fact has never shown more clearly than in the pure excitement of The Cardinal of the Kremlin.

Tom Clancy is the author of The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, and Patriot Games.  He lives in Maryland.

Back cover:

Extraordinary praise for the novels of Tom Clancy

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1984)


"Breathlessly exciting... It may be the most satisfactory novel of a sea chase since C. S. Forester perfected the form.  A tremendously gripping and enjoyable novel."
-Washington Post


"A remarkable action novel... an iron-and-guts tale about an undersea world most readers are only vaguely aware exists."
- Clive Cussler, Denver Post


"Clancy has a terrific talent for taking the arcana of U.S. and Soviet submarine warfare, the subtleties of sonar and techno-babble of nuclear power plants and transforming them into taut drama."
-Los Angeles Times


RED STORM RISING (1986)


"Red Storm Rising is a true classic.  The true measure of Tom Clancy's art is his ability to make both the high technology and the personal motivations of his characters not only real but alive and human.  This is what makes him a new star in our national constellation of writers...  Tom Clancy is the best there is.  He is a master."
- Edward L. Beach, San Francisco Chronicle


"Red Storm Rising is even better than The Hunt for Red October.  I dare you to read one chapter and try to put it down."
- Newsday


PATRIOT GAMES (1987)


"Patriot Games is an even more compelling and spine-tingling narrative drama than Clancy's first two books because its heroes and heroines are very real people... Clancy's skills lie especially in his matchless narrative ability and the skill with which he constructs highly imaginative, believable and horrifying plots that race along at breakneck speed.  He sustains a high pitch of excitement, dread, near panic, and joy in victory, all tumbling after one another, unfolding at a very fast pace indeed.  Patriot Games is a splendid read."
- Wall Street Journal


"Clancy has learned a secret that evades most other writers: He tells a good story."
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch


"Tom Clancy is a national treasure."
- Washington Post Book World
Cover:
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Notes and Comments:
Second printing based on the number line
Canada: $27.95
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26-Jul-1988
G P Putnam's Sons
Hardback

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Author(s)

 Tom Clancy
Birth: 12 Apr 1947 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Death: 01 Jan 2013 Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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