The Cardinal of the Kremlin | Tom Clancy

The Cardinal of the Kremlin | Tom Clancy | One of My Favorite Clancy Books

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	The Cardinal of the Kremlin Tom Clancy Berkley Books, 1989 - 547 pages average customer review:based on 135 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One isted by the KGB. The other is Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October,ld to peace. A 4-month #1 New York Times bestseller, with 1.3 million hardcover copies in print. HC: Putnam.

Cardinal of the Kremlin

I had read this book previously, but wanted to read it again. Clancey's books are just too good to read only once.

One of My Favorite Clancy Books

This book is one of my favorite Tom Clancy books. I have read all his books many times. In this book, we learn about two men who have intel on Communist/Left-wing Soviet Union's emerging missile defense program. One man is CARDINAL, a Soviet Army Colonel who lost his sons to Communist indifference. He is America's highest placed spy. And the KGB is running him down. An American is trying to save this hero and stop a potential war. Nuclear strategies are intertwined in Clancy's best global strategy book to date. Jack Ryan is at his best as an analyst chasing down some unusual structures in the southern Soviet Union - responsible for downing a satellite with a laser. Cardinal is sending details about this program, risking exposure. It was great to see the introduction of Mary Pat, a female CIA operative, who threads through the subsequent Clancy books. The plotting is excellent. The characterization is solid. Clancy is at his best in this fine work.

Michael Mandaville, Author - "Stealing Thunder"

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One of My Favorite Clancy Books

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One of Clancy's best!

This novel is Tom Clancy.

As action is concern this is the least action pact novel he has written, but this novel is totally character and event driven. It is a bit slow to read, but this novel is one of the best!

This is a cold war driven novel, Russia and America are playing the "Game" and America has a gold mine in the Russian Government, who is leaking the "good" stuff. And it is up to Jack Ryan to protect the source and bring the Cardinal Home to America.

Though, this is a Jack Ryan novel, the main Characters are really the Foley's (I hope I am spelling that right), they are the ones who are stationed in Russia and sending the info back to the US and it is their lives on the line. Jack is more of a support character in this one, though he got the credit for the novel.

The novel Red Rabbit is another good one with the Foley's as main characters along with Jack Ryan.

But this is definitely one of Clancy's best novels. One of my top five.

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Despite His Hydrocephalus Politics and Latest Duds, THIS IS CLANCY AT HIS BEST!

I do not like Tom Clancy. I despise his totalitarian amoral politics and I canNOT stand him slapping his readers with them in his latest oversized and underwritten duds.

However, Tom Clancy was once an EXCELLENT technothriller writer. He might not have invented the genre, yet he launched it into the stratosphere.

This is HIS BEST BOOK and it is actually very good.
The mid-80's Cold-War atmosphere, the paranoia, the double-agents, the clandestine methods and the hardware are all expertly presented.
Now, him being, well...Clancy there still are stereotypes and bigoted characters galore. Deciding to overcome this however, the reader can actually enjoy this one.

Do not judge CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN based on his deteriorated career.

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