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Summary: ASTOUNDING! AMAZING!
Review: When I originally took this book off my grandpa's shelf, I wasn't thrilled about it. I had heard it was absolutely amazing, that it was a Jack Ryan book, but...the old copy I had in my hands just didn't grasp my attention. I shrugged anyway, took it with me, and put it on my shelf. I had two other Ryan novels to read! I quickly raced through both THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and PATRIOT GAMES and, amazingly, found it time to start through THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN. Almost immediately Ryan's vulnerabilities and cluelessness kept me in the game. There was the ruthless KGB, Gerisamov's lust for power, Filitov and his agony over betraying his country, the SDI research, and finally the confrontations between Ryan and Golovko. The plot thickened, as usual, and I became far more wrapped up in the novel. What makes this book so amazing? Perhaps it's Clancy's graceful writing, his in-depth research into SDI, or maybe his feel for the intensity between the United States and the Soviet Union. Whatever it was, Ryan's cleverness added onto the sheer power of the book... ...and makes it one of Clancy's best to date...
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