Book Preview Monday, 4:55 p.m. Madrid, Spain “You were way out of line,” Martha Mackal said. She was openly disgusted with the young woman standing beside her and it took a moment for her to calm down. Then she bent close to Aideen’s ear so the other passengers wouldn’t hear. “You were out of line … Read more
Book Preview Before Going Any Further READ THIS FIRST: This is my archival copy of a copyrighted material. If you do not own the printed book, you have no legal right to possess or read this eBook. You are required to immediately delete this file. Please support the author. Go buy the book. And that’s … Read more
Book Preview We would like to thank Jeff Rovin for his creative ideas and his invaluable contributions to the preparation of the manuscript. We would also like to acknowledge the assistance of Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff, Robert Youdelman, Esq., Tom Mal on, Esq., and the wonderful people at The Putnam Berkley Group, including Phyl … Read more
Book Preview Friday, 5:50 P.M., St. Petersburg “Pavel,” said Piotr Volodya, “I don’t understand.” Pavel Odina squeezed the steering wheel tightly. He looked unpleasantly at the man sitting next to him in the passenger’s seat of the van. “You don’t understand what, Piotr?” “You forgive the French,” Piotr replied, scratching a wool y sideburn, “so … Read more
Book Preview Tuesday, 4: 10 P. M., Seoul Gregory Donald took a sip of scotch and looked across the “Do you ever find yourself thinking back, Kim? I don’t mean to this morning or last week, but-way back?” Kim Hwan, Deputy Director of the Korean Central Intel igence Agency, used a red stirring straw to … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY TOM CLANCY FICTION The Hunt for Red October Red Storm Rising Patriot Games The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clear and Present Danger The Sum of All Fears Without Remorse Debt of Honor Executive Orders Rainbow Six The Bear and the Dragon Red Rabbit The Teeth of the Tiger Dead or Alive … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY TOM CLANCY FICTION The Hunt for Red October Red Storm Rising Patriot Games The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clear and Present Danger The Sum of All Fears Without Remorse Debt of Honor Executive Orders Rainbow Six The Bear and the Dragon Red Rabbit The Teeth of the Tiger Dead or Alive … Read more
Book Preview The Russians call their Kamov-50 helicopter gunship Chernaya Akula—Black Shark. The name suits it, because it is sleek and fast, and it moves with cunning and agility, and, above all, it is a supremely efficient killer of its prey. A pair of Black Sharks emerged from a predawn fog bank and shot through … Read more
Book Preview Dead Or Alive TOM CLANCY * Chapter 1. LIGHT TROOPS–an Eleven-Bravo light infantryman, according the United States Army’s MOS (military occupational specialty) system–are supposed to be “pretty” spit-and-polish troops with spotless uniforms and clean-shaven faces, but First Sergeant Sam Driscoll wasn’t one of those anymore, and hadn’t been for some time. The concept … Read more
Book Preview G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS â—ˆ NEW YORK (eBook Scanned, Proofed and Formatted by BookW urm) To Chris and Charlie. . . . and, of course, Lady A lex, whose light burns Marco, in Italy, for navigation instructions Ric and Mort for the medical education Mary and Ed for the maps Madam Jacque for the … Read more
Book Preview Going to work was the same everywhere, and the changeover from Marxism-Leninism to Chaos-Capitalism hadn’t changed matters much— wel , maybe things were now a little worse. Moscow, a city of wide streets, was harder to drive in now that nearly anyone could have a car, and the center lane down the wide … Read more
Book Preview RAINBOW SIX TOM CLANCY John Clark had more time in airplanes than most licensed pilots, and he knew the statistics as wel as any of them, but he stil didn’t like the idea of crossing the ocean on a twin-engine airliner. Four was the right number of engines, he thought, because losing one … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE: STARTING HERE IT HAD TO BE THE SHOCK of the moment, Ryan thought. He seemed to be two people at the same time. One part of him looked out the window of the lunchroom of CNN’s Washington bureau and saw the fires that grew from the remains of the Capitol building–yel ow … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY TOM CLANCY The Hunt for Red October Red Storm Rising Patriot Games The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clear and Present Danger The Sum of Al Fears Without Remorse Nonfiction Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment G. P. Putnam’s Sons … Read more
Book Preview ‘Like a wolf on the fold.’ In recounting the Syrian attack on the Israeli-held Golan Heights at 1400 local time on Saturday, October 6th, 1973, most commentators automatically recalled Lord Byron’s famous line. There is also little doubt that that is precisely what the more literally inclined Syrian commanders had in mind when … Read more
Book Preview As always, there are many people to thank. To “The Great Geraldo” for his friendship; to Russ for his second instal ment of wise counsel and amazing breadth of knowledge; to Carl and Colin, who never knew what they were starting, but then, neither did I; to Bil for his wisdom; to Rich … Read more
Book Preview <?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’utf-8′?> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”><head> <title>TheCardinaloftheKremlin</title> <meta content=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; charset=utf-8″ http-equiv=”Content-Type”/><link href=”stylesheet.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet”/><style type=”text/css”> @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; }</style></head><body class=”calibre”>”A GREAT SPY STORY!” -WASHINGTON POST The Cardinal of the Kremlin “TERRIFIC … Clancy is as sure-fire as Robert Ludlum and Stephen King.” -New York Dally News “MARVELOUS .. . CLANCY DELIVERS … Read more
Book Preview Captain First Rank Marko Ramius of the Soviet Navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the Northern Fleet submarine base at Polyarnyy. Five layers of wool and oilskin enclosed him. A dirty harbor tug pushed his submarine’s bow around to the north, facing down the channel. The dock that had held … Read more