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
characters: Dr. Beatrice Taussig, Ernie Allen, Swetlana Wanejewa, Katryn Gerasimov, Sergej Golowko, Scott Browning, Boris Filipowitsch Morosow, Feliks Dzerzhinskiy, Paul von Eich, Emilio Ortiz, Art Graham, Sir John Ryan, Sergey Sokolov, Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov, General Parks, Tania Bisyarina, Colin McClintock, Codename Cassius, Elena Iwanowa Makarowa, Kapitän Marko Alexandrowitsch Ramius, Marv Greene, Alexej Iljitsch Romanow, Gennady Iosifovich, Marshal Yazov, Richter Moore, Alan T. Gregory, Mary Pat Foley, Klementi Vladimirovich Vatutin, Mikhail Petrovich, Narmonov, Ivan Emmetovich, Nikolay Borissovich Gerasimov, Peggy Jennings, Felix Dserschinski, Grigori Dalmatow, Tanja Bisjarina, Pete Wexton, Boris Tschurbanow, Ann Klein II, Pokryshkin, Michail Semjonowitsch Filitow, Bart Mancuso, Oleg Penkovskiy, Major Sarudin, Sergey Nikolay´ch Golovko, Svetlana Vaneyeva, Sergej Platonow, Bob Ritter, Misha Filitov, Mike Paster, Anatoliy, Nikolaj Borissowitsch Gerasimow, General Jewgeni Ignatjew, Dr. Candace Long, Charlie Bravo, Jim Greer
genres: Adventure, Spy Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Espionage, Action, Military Fiction, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 55055
places: Washington, D.C., Russia, Moscow, USSR
series: Jack Ryan Universe, Jack Ryan Universe (Publication Order), Jack Ryan
publisher: Berkley Publishing Group