num_pages: 547
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: Ernie Allen, Paul von Eich, Emilio Ortiz, Dr. Candace Long, Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov, Ann Klein II, Bob Ritter, Pokryshkin, General Parks, Kapitän Marko Alexandrowitsch Ramius, Tanja Bisjarina, Marv Greene, Feliks Dzerzhinskiy, Svetlana Vaneyeva, Mary Pat Foley, Peggy Jennings, Narmonov, Codename Cassius, Sergey Sokolov, Nikolay Borissovich Gerasimov, Major Sarudin, Sergey Nikolay´ch Golovko, Dr. Beatrice Taussig, Pete Wexton, Scott Browning, Gennady Iosifovich, Boris Tschurbanow, Elena Iwanowa Makarowa, Sergej Golowko, Klementi Vladimirovich Vatutin, Alan T. Gregory, Sergej Platonow, Misha Filitov, Nikolaj Borissowitsch Gerasimow, Sir John Ryan, Jim Greer, Mike Paster, Katryn Gerasimov, Mikhail Petrovich, Richter Moore, Boris Filipowitsch Morosow, Colin McClintock, Marshal Yazov, General Jewgeni Ignatjew, Oleg Penkovskiy, Charlie Bravo, Tania Bisyarina, Bart Mancuso, Ivan Emmetovich, Alexej Iljitsch Romanow, Grigori Dalmatow, Michail Semjonowitsch Filitow, Swetlana Wanejewa, Felix Dserschinski, Art Graham, Anatoliy
genres: Military Fiction, Suspense, Espionage, Adventure, Spy Thriller, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Action, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 55051
places: Russia, Washington, D.C., Moscow, USSR
series: Jack Ryan Universe (Publication Order), Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan Universe
publisher: Berkley Publishing Group