克里姆林宫的枢机主教 (1988)

《克里姆林宫的枢机主教》 （Cardinal of the Kremlin）是美国畅销军事小说作家汤姆·克兰西（Tom Clancy）于1988年出版的杰克·雷恩系列第三作，时间背景接续在《猎杀红色十月》之后，以美国中情局分析师杰克·雷恩（Jack Ryan）为主角。

简介

故事背景设定当时美苏两国正在进行限武谈判，而美国于苏联国内位阶最高的间谍“枢机主教”却于此时暴露身份，却又牵扯到阿富汗游击队以及苏联秘密发展的卫星激光武器计划，一连串错综复杂的政治与军事事件就此发生。

大陆版出版

章祖德，祁阿红 译

出 版 社：上海译文出版社

出版时间：2007-8-1

版　　次：1

页　　数：439

字　　数：391000

印刷时间：2007-8-1

开　　本：16开

纸　　张：胶版纸

印　　次：1

I S B N：9787532742769

包　　装：平装

台湾版出版资料

译者：章庆云、祁鸿、王业桃

页数：706页

出版社：星光出版社

出版日期：1993年12月

ISBN 957-677-118-8

The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a spy thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on May 20, 1988. A direct sequel to The Hunt for Red October (1984), it features CIA analyst Jack Ryan as he must extract CARDINAL, the agency's highest placed asset in the Soviet military, who is being pursued by the KGB. The novel also features the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a conceptual missile-defense system developed by the United States during that time, and its Soviet counterpart. The book debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller List.

Plot

For thirty years, Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich "Misha" Filitov, a personal aide to the Soviet Minister of Defense and three-time Hero of the Soviet Union, has been passing military, technical, and political intelligence to the CIA as their highest agent-in-place, codenamed CARDINAL. His latest mission concerns a Soviet anti-ballistic missile research project codenamed "Bright Star", based at a secret defense installation located 50 km southeast of Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Colonel Filitov sends Colonel Gennady Bondarenko of Signal Troops to Dushanbe to evaluate the facility and unwittingly procure information that Filitov will then send to his CIA contacts. Unfortunately, a minor slip-up in passing Filitov's intelligence at the Moscow subway alerts the KGB, which then aggressively pursues the couriers involved, including the daughter of a Politburo official recruited by the CIA and MI6. They become suspicious of Filitov and place him under surveillance. With the courier chain having been quickly shut down by the CIA station chief in Moscow, Edward Foley, Filitov's more important intelligence on Bright Star is delayed; however, he reveals the presence of a KGB agent infiltrating Bright Star's American counterpart Tea Clipper, which alarms the CIA.

The CIA then tasks Foley with extracting Filitov out of the country. However, when his wife Mary Pat, also a CIA officer, attempts to make a brush pass to Filitov at his apartment building, the two are arrested by the KGB. The Foleys are then declared persona non grata, while Filitov is imprisoned and psychologically tortured until he eventually confesses to his crimes. In an effort to salvage the mission, CIA analyst Jack Ryan, who had now learned of CARDINAL's identity, concocts a plan to secure the return of Filitov and at the same time force the defection of KGB chairman Nikolai Gerasimov, who has been vying for the position of General Secretary since Filitov's arrest; Ryan tries to prevent his ascension to power due to his anti-American ideology.

Ryan, who is part of the American arms negotiation team, travels to Moscow for the arms reduction talks. There he meets Gerasimov, and blackmails him into releasing Filitov and defecting; if his demands are not met, he will reveal what happened to the Soviet ballistic missile submarine Red October, which would disgrace the KGB chairman, who had used the incident to consolidate the KGB's control over the military. As counter-leverage, Gerasimov arranges for the kidnapping of Tea Clipper's top Strategic Defense Initiative scientist, Major Alan Gregory.

Gregory's kidnapping was undertaken by KGB agent Tania Bisyarina, who has been handling a mole inside Tea Clipper. The mole, a lesbian named Dr. Beatrice Taussig who is in love with Gregory's fiancée, eventually gives up Bisyarina to the FBI out of guilt, and the Hostage Rescue Team later saves Gregory from his Soviet captors in a shabby desert safe house in New Mexico. Ryan informs Gerasimov, who finally caves into his demands. The KGB chairman's wife and daughter are later extracted by CIA operative John Clark from Tallinn, Estonia into the submarine USS Dallas, which escapes into international waters with the help of former Red October commander Marko Ramius, who is now a submarine consultant.