The Cardinal of the Kremlin. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by G. P. Putnam Son's, 1988
Series: Book 3 of 28 - Jack Ryan
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Book Scouts, Hamilton, ON, CanadaThe Book Scouts
AbeBooks seller since March 1, 2007
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 3.72
Item description from seller
We're always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any book priced at $10 or more, please just ask! American first edition, first printing. Contains number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Back of jacket is a little worn top left corner. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark.
Seller Inventory # 26060017
- Title
- The Cardinal of the Kremlin
- Author
- Clancy, Tom
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam Son's
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0399133453
- ISBN 13
- 9780399133459
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 30 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x1x9
- Series
- Book 3 of 28: Jack Ryan
- Seller catalogs
- Mystery/Thriller
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Review
Cardinal of the Kremlin, however, is more about the shifting allegiances of the intelligence community and the unstable world of late 1980s U.S.-Soviet relations than it is about military technology. Colonel Mikhail Filitov is the Cardinal, the CIA's ear in the Kremlin and a steady source of the latest Soviet secrets. Passing microfilm through a chain of agents that begins in a Turkish bath, the Cardinal exposes a double agent in the American SDI program. Unfortunately, the KGB also knows that they have a mole in their midst. In tightly crafted narrative that rapidly cuts from the Kremlin to Afghanistan to Washington, D.C., the Americans rush to pull Filitov and his associates out before his cover is blown. Jack Ryan returns as the moral centre in a world often dominated by egos and politicking, and John Clark, ex-Navy SEAL and current CIA agent makes his first appearance in a Clancy novel (though his early life is chronicled in Without Remorse).
Clancy hits his stride in this outing, meshing a plot that earns the name "thriller" with bang-on depictions of SDI systems and a varied and interesting cast of characters. Moving beyond black-and-white depictions of the "evil empire", he delves into the altogether greyer world where political ideals meet reality. --Patrick O'Kelley
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