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| The Cardinal of the Kremlin |  | Author: Tom Clancy
Creator: Peter Marinker
Publisher: ISIS Audio Books
Category: Book
Buy New: £70.49
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 2590145
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
ISBN: 075310881X
EAN: 9780753108819
ASIN: 075310881X
Publication Date: April 1, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Tom Clancy's cutting-edge research takes readers inside Soviet and American attempts to develop a Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). The Soviets have begun successful tests of their system, located near the border of Afghanistan. Americans race to implement their own system, Tea Clipper, so as to maintain strategic parity. 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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 Despite His Hydrocephalus Politics and Latest Duds, THIS IS CLANCY AT HIS BEST! September 27, 2007
NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in Orbit)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 Amazing continuation of the brilliant "Hunt for Red October" September 26, 2007
Maciej K. (Belgium)
This is in my modest opinion the second best book by Tom Clancy, bested only by the "Hunt for Red October". This incredibly courageous technothriller is centered around two topics: a Soviet officer who is spying for Americans since the 60s and a new, powerful weapon, developped by USSR - a laser gun able to destroy satelites. This second topic is partly inspired by the true events - such an installation, destined to blind (not destroy) US satelites, was really build in the last years in USSR close to Duchanbe in todays Tadjikistan, but never tried on an American target.
As one of the previous reviewers pointed, this is a very pro-US book, and that is precisely the reason I call it courageous: most spy books usually try not to design one of the blocks (East or West) as being on the good side and another on the bad side. Which is not true in my modest opinion, because let's face it - during the Cold War there was one alliance made of democracies and it faced a totalitarian empire and its unwilling satelites. That alone shows which side was right and which one was wrong. And this book, as its predecessor, takes exactly this position.
The plot itself is also very daring - I do not want to give any spoilers, but towards the end my jaw dropped. Three times in a row. I was like "Oh my God, he dared to write THIS?" And I think that even now, 16 years after the end of Cold War, this books still packs an impressive power to surprise and shock you. And it is also a really good read. I recommend it warmly, as the second best technothriller ever, a perfect second part of the amazing "Hunt for Red October".
A cold war novel holding up well today May 17, 2007
Mr. Christian Hoskins (London, UK)
I recently read "Cardinal of the Kremlin" for a second time, having first enjoyed it about 10 years ago. I was pleased to find that it was still a good read. Unlike some of Clancy's other novels, the story gets going almost immediately and the characters are all quite believable. There are some occasional moments of implausibility in the plot, but nothing too serious.
Despite being written and set in the time of the cold war, the book holds up well today. Clancy's opinions about the status of the Soviet economy, which must have been largely speculative when he wrote them in the mid 1980s, have been shown by events to be largely accurate. I feel the Russians are portrayed quite sympathetically for the most part, even if the Americans always seem to get the upper hand.
It is thought provoking to read Clancy's descriptions of the Mujahadin warriors in Afghanistan and their motives for fighting the Soviets. Twenty years later, another generation of Mujahadin warriers are now fighting western troops in Afghanistan.
Altogether a very good novel, especially for those with a penchant for cold war stories.
 Good, but flawed. July 13, 2006
Mrs. N. A. Miles (England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is good book. It is one you just can't put down. The characters are great, why have I only given 2 stars then? Well, the plot is ridiculous, it is so pro-USA that it is unbelievable, the US win all the conflicts, even when they are not in direct competition with the Soviets. The Russians are at a loss whatever happens, the US have a spy high up in Russia who has been giving them info on EVERYTHING the soviets have/planed, while the highest soviet spy is doublecrossing Russia. After 30 years the Soviets catch the spy, only to have him rescued and flown to the US. Read this book if you have spare time, it is exciting, or if you are VERY pro-US.
A gripping story August 28, 2005
Doris (Cork, Ireland)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The cardinal of the kremlin is a great story with interacting an plot and amazing characters. This is one of those books you can't put down easily. Also recommended: The Union Moujik,Russia in search of itself,Spy Handler
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