Pre-order the pulse-racing new Jack Ryan thriller, TOM CLANCY DEFENSE PROTOCOL, now!________________’The best of the Jack Ryan series!’ New York Times The superpower arms negotiations appear to be making progress. But a US spy satellite reveals that the Soviets are building a massive laser-defence system controlled from an other-worldly array of pillars and domes in the Soviet hills at Dushanbe near the border of war-torn Afghanistan.The Americans need more information. The man to give it is Colonel Mikhail Filitov of the Soviet Union, codename Cardinal, America’s highest-placed agent in the Kremlin. But Filitov’s cover is about to be betrayed to the KGB, and CIA adviser Jack Ryan must rescue Filitov and bring him to safety . . .________________Reader reviews for THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN’Full of thrilling moments and engrossing detail’ &#11088’A fantastic gripping read, typical of Tom Clancy’ &#11088’One of the best Tom Clancy novels’ &#11088’There is something magical about Clancy’s writing about the Cold War’ &#11088’A classic. Fast paced, three dimensional and gripping’ &#11088