Saturday, January 19, 2019
For MLK Day
Thought that I had to post something, so why not a highly touted Senator from New Jersey, that happens to have the right ethnicity.
The Cardinal and the Kremlin
A Tom Clancy novel The Cardinal of the Kremlin was published in 1988 by Putnam.
As with all Clancy novels we have the normal characters, Jack Rayan, along with Ritter, John Clark, Bart Mancuso, the Admiral Greer and as a surprise Marco Ramius.
The plot concentrates on military and clandestine facets of what we have come to know as SDI. Both Russia and the United States are racing, in secret, to be the first to complete their laser defense systems which are intended to destroy enemy missiles. The Americans have the better programming and optics, the Russians have conquered the power delivery systems. Both have what the other have to complete their systems. Both countries have spies embedded within the their oppositions scientific development teams.
The main protagonist, Jack Ryan, while serving as a expert on a team of diplomats negotiating an arms reduction treaty, become involved in a plan for extraction of a long time, highly ranking military advisor linked to the Russian Politburo. The plan is scary, and Jack Ryan gets a scraped knee, but is eventually successful.
Ramius showing in the book was minor and insignificant.
The book is worth a read, even if it is generally formulaic, I am surprised this wasn't made into a movie..
As with all Clancy novels we have the normal characters, Jack Rayan, along with Ritter, John Clark, Bart Mancuso, the Admiral Greer and as a surprise Marco Ramius.
The plot concentrates on military and clandestine facets of what we have come to know as SDI. Both Russia and the United States are racing, in secret, to be the first to complete their laser defense systems which are intended to destroy enemy missiles. The Americans have the better programming and optics, the Russians have conquered the power delivery systems. Both have what the other have to complete their systems. Both countries have spies embedded within the their oppositions scientific development teams.
The main protagonist, Jack Ryan, while serving as a expert on a team of diplomats negotiating an arms reduction treaty, become involved in a plan for extraction of a long time, highly ranking military advisor linked to the Russian Politburo. The plan is scary, and Jack Ryan gets a scraped knee, but is eventually successful.
Ramius showing in the book was minor and insignificant.
The book is worth a read, even if it is generally formulaic, I am surprised this wasn't made into a movie..
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