Tom Clancy - The Cardinal

The international arms negotiations appear to be making progress. But the 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-rotn 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...