In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancys #1 New York Times bestselling series. 1985 A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer-invaluable details of his governments espionage plans in return for asylum. Its an offer they cant pass up...if its genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble into a deal. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. Its a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man--Jack Ryan. Ryan is a former Marine and a brilliant CIA analyst whos been the architect of some of the CIAs biggest coups but this time hes in enemy territory with a professional assassin on his tail. Can he get the right answers before the Cold War turns into a Red Winter?
