The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Tom Clancy
• Title: The Cardinal of the Kremlin (A Jack Ryan Novel)
• Publisher: ‎ G. P. Putnam Son's
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 543 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0399133453
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0399133459
• Reading Age: ‎ 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.50 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (Used book that is in clean condition without any missing pages and spine is intact. May show some minimal discoloration to page edges.) Good condition is defined as a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages and cover are intact and the cover is in very good condition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Synopsis:

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 otherworldly 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. 

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.

About the Author:

A little more than thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel.

His first effort, The Hunt for Red October—the first of the phenomenally successful Jack Ryan novels—sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.”

From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013.