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Author: Tom Clancy
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The Cardinal of the Kremlin Description
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425116845
ISBN: 0425116840
Label: Berkley Books
Manufacturer: Berkley Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 547
Publication Date: 1989-08-01
Publisher: Berkley Books
Studio: Berkley Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425116845
ISBN: 0425116840
Label: Berkley Books
Manufacturer: Berkley Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 547
Publication Date: 1989-08-01
Publisher: Berkley Books
Studio: Berkley Books
Editorial Review of The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Mikhail Filitov is a war hero and Red Army Colonel, but his CIA code name is "Cardinal." A chance encounter in a Moscow subway leads the KGB to begin a hunt--for the spy in top echelons of power. From the author of Clear and Present Danger, The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising, enter a world of high-wire, high-tech international intrigue that reaches from the bloody dust of Afghanistan to the use of lasers in space. The US and the USSR are negotiating a treaty that could lead to war--or peace--while their secret espionage armies are locked in the ultimate struggle. What the Cardinal knows could change the course of history. What a maverick CIA man named Ryan must do is outduel the KGB--and bring the Cardinal out alive!
Customer Reviews of The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: One of My Favorite Clancy Books
Review: 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"
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Despite His Hydrocephalus Politics and Latest Duds, THIS IS CLANCY AT HIS BEST!
Review: 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.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Cardinal of the Kremlin
Review: I had read this book previously, but wanted to read it again. Clancey's books are just too good to read only once.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: One of the Best
Review: this is one of Clancy's better novels, it has a little of everything, Military, intel gathering in the field, counter-espionage, and CIA operations. It isnt a big Clark book but it is still good.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Moscow's CARDINAL.
Review: The Cardinal of the Kremlin features a situation that could only been constructed by Clancy. The cold war is at its peak, and tensions are running high with both countries independently developing there own space laser systems. The Americans are doing fairly well and are advancing rapidly seeing as they know what it is that they are doing, but the Soviets are working with the best that they have and have already accidentally managed to create a working laser. CIA witnesses the laser blast and asks there inside man in the Soviet government CARDINAL to relay the info. It is now reveled that the CIA's inside man in the Kremlin is Colonel Filitov, the three-time hero of the Soviet Union and disgruntled patriot. But because CARDINALs courier is burned, they must retrieve their info some other way. The need Mary-Pat Foley to be a direct pick up with CARDINAL. The KGB catches them, but because Foley has diplomatic immunity she is deported but Filitov isn't so lucky. He is arrested. CIA knows what the Soviets do with spies so now they have to decide what to do about Filitov. Do they leave him to die or do they show loyalty to the agent that that loyalty provided information for over thirty years? The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a great book that is more Spy craft and ethics than action and gadgets.
Review Summary: One of My Favorite Clancy Books
Review: 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"
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Despite His Hydrocephalus Politics and Latest Duds, THIS IS CLANCY AT HIS BEST!
Review: 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.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Cardinal of the Kremlin
Review: I had read this book previously, but wanted to read it again. Clancey's books are just too good to read only once.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: One of the Best
Review: this is one of Clancy's better novels, it has a little of everything, Military, intel gathering in the field, counter-espionage, and CIA operations. It isnt a big Clark book but it is still good.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Moscow's CARDINAL.
Review: The Cardinal of the Kremlin features a situation that could only been constructed by Clancy. The cold war is at its peak, and tensions are running high with both countries independently developing there own space laser systems. The Americans are doing fairly well and are advancing rapidly seeing as they know what it is that they are doing, but the Soviets are working with the best that they have and have already accidentally managed to create a working laser. CIA witnesses the laser blast and asks there inside man in the Soviet government CARDINAL to relay the info. It is now reveled that the CIA's inside man in the Kremlin is Colonel Filitov, the three-time hero of the Soviet Union and disgruntled patriot. But because CARDINALs courier is burned, they must retrieve their info some other way. The need Mary-Pat Foley to be a direct pick up with CARDINAL. The KGB catches them, but because Foley has diplomatic immunity she is deported but Filitov isn't so lucky. He is arrested. CIA knows what the Soviets do with spies so now they have to decide what to do about Filitov. Do they leave him to die or do they show loyalty to the agent that that loyalty provided information for over thirty years? The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a great book that is more Spy craft and ethics than action and gadgets.