description: 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.
language: English
title: The Cardinal of the Kremlin
titlecomplete: The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan, #4)
characters: Richter Moore, Sir John Ryan, Nikolaj Borissowitsch Gerasimow, Major Sarudin, Boris Filipowitsch Morosow, Svetlana Vaneyeva, Sergey Sokolov, Mike Paster, Art Graham, Ann Klein II, Marv Greene, Mikhail Petrovich, Nikolay Borissovich Gerasimov, Codename Cassius, Marshal Yazov, Colin McClintock, Mary Pat Foley, Scott Browning, General Parks, General Jewgeni Ignatjew, Anatoliy, Sergej Golowko, Ivan Emmetovich, Misha Filitov, Sergej Platonow, Jim Greer, Kapitän Marko Alexandrowitsch Ramius, Klementi Vladimirovich Vatutin, Swetlana Wanejewa, Oleg Penkovskiy, Grigori Dalmatow, Bart Mancuso, Katryn Gerasimov, Gennady Iosifovich, Alexej Iljitsch Romanow, Felix Dserschinski, Elena Iwanowa Makarowa, Narmonov, Emilio Ortiz, Charlie Bravo, Pete Wexton, Pokryshkin, Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov, Dr. Candace Long, Paul von Eich, Michail Semjonowitsch Filitow, Tanja Bisjarina, Alan T. Gregory, Boris Tschurbanow, Peggy Jennings, Dr. Beatrice Taussig, Tania Bisyarina, Feliks Dzerzhinskiy, Sergey Nikolay´ch Golovko, Bob Ritter, Ernie Allen
genres: Thriller, Spy Thriller, Espionage, Military Fiction, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Action, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 55048
places: Moscow, USSR, Russia, Washington, D.C.
series: Jack Ryan Universe, Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan Universe (Publication Order)
publisher: Putnam Publishing Group