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Remarkable praise for Tom Clancy's
The Cardinal of the Kremlin"Tom Clancy has a genius for big, compelling plots, a passion for research, a natural narrative gift."
- The New York Times Magazine
"Tom Clancy is a master storyteller."
- Newsweek
"Tom Clancy has written a great spy novel. It has the authentic feel of espionage. It moves on at least ten action fronts. It offers a marvelous portrait of the Soviet Union and Moscow. It delivers with the nitty-gritty detail of spy work in the field. And, as always, it does a superlative job of clearly rendering a nearly unfathomable subject: the high-technology of modern warfare."
- Washington Post Book World
"Clancy is known for his abilities to take technical details and weave them into a gripping and fascinating story. Here, he is in top form as he takes Jack Ryan through his paces, including an incredible heart-stopping scene on a Russian runway. Stunning."
- Associated Press
"A military-political adventure with enough suspense and surprise to awaken even the most sated of readers of spy novels. In its recipe of plot, characters and technology, Cardinal may be the best of the Clancy novels - high praise indeed."
- The Dallas Morning News
"An adventure of high quality. The unmasking of the Cardinal is as sophisticated an exercise in the craft of espionage as I have yet to encounter."
- The New York Times Book Review
"Clancy proves himself as capable as John Le Carré at spinning the complicated web of spy vs. spy. It's great reading."
- Milwaukee Journal
"Like its three predecessors, a terrific piece of storytelling. Its action sequences are as good as anything Clancy has written. A tightly plotted and delightfully complex tale."
- The Detroit News
"A big, involving spy saga that delivers the goods. It will satisfy Clancy's many fans and will surely earn him legions of new ones."
- San Francisco Chronicle
Front flap:
Clear and
Present
Danger
Tom Clancy"Tom Clancy is the best there is. He is a master."
- San Francisco Chronicle
The Hunt for Red October...
Red Storm Rising...
Patriot Games...
The Cardinal of the Kremlin... Tom Clancy's novels now total, remarkably, over 15 million copies in print, and
The Cardinal of the Kremlin was hailed by reviewers as his finest novel yet. "Terrific characters... the authentic feel of espionage... a superlative rendering of modern warfare... Clancy delivers," wrote Bob Woodward in
The Washington Post.
And now Clancy delivers again, with a novel as explosive as today's headlines.
At what point does criminal activity threaten national security? When can a nation respond to it as to an enemy? These are the questions Jack Ryan must consider
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(Continued from front flap)when he hears the awful news: Colombian drug lords, tired of being harassed by U.S. law enforcement agents, have assassinated three high American officials, and that is just the beginning. The message is clear: Leave us alone.
But they have pushed too far. Someone steps quietly over the line they have drawn, deploying covert-action teams in Colombia. At home, too, men armed with the most sophisticated tools their country can devise begin to take the fight to the enemy. But does anyone know who the real enemy is, and how much action is too much? Who is doing what? Which line has been crossed? Ryan and his "dark side," a shadowy field officer known only as Mr. Clark, must find out. They expect danger from without - but the danger from within may be the greatest of all.
As Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Clear and Present Danger, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, knife-edge suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters. This is Clancy at his very best - and that is "the best there is."
Tom Clancy is the author of
The Hunt for Red October,
Red Storm Rising,
Patriot Games and
The Cardinal of the Kremlin. He lives in Maryland.