All it took was one man to cause everything he had worked for to crumble.and all it took was one man to stop him. Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the KGB, did not like what this meant for him or for his nation.

In Moscow, another man was contemplating those very same consequences. The new Pope had just delivered a private ultimatum to Warsaw: If the government persisted in its repression, he would feel compelled to resign the papacy and return to Poland. Then Jack forgot about the rest of his work, because on his first day, an extraordinary document crossed his desk. A series of deadly encounters with an IRA splinter group had brought him to the attention of the CIA's Deputy Director, Vice Admiral James Greer - and when Greer asked him to come aboard Jack was quick to accept. Published after Executive Orders, the novel charts Jack Ryan's earliest mission for the CIA, and is the stunning prequel to The Hunt For Red October.In the early 1980s, long before he was President or head of the CIA, even before a submarine named Red October crossed the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England. Red Rabbit is the thrilling eighth novel featuring Jack Ryan, following The Sum of All Fears and Debt of Honour. For it is not just the Pope's life that is at stake, but also the stability of the Western World. The CIA novice must forget his inexperience and rely on all his wits to firstly discover the details of the plot - and then prevent its execution. Stationed in England, he quickly finds himself debriefing a Soviet defector with an extraordinary story to tell: senior Russian officials are plotting to assassinate Pope John Paul II. When young Jack Ryan joins the CIA as an analyst he is thrust into a world of political intrigue and conspiracy. In Red Rabbit Tom Clancy gives Jack Ryan fans an insight into his greatest hero's first years fighting terrorism. INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN. From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense.

But he had always dreamed of writing a novel, and his first effort, The Hunt for Red October, catapulted on to the New York Times bestseller list. Thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history.

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