1985: For Jack Ryan the Cold War is burning hot 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 government's espionage
plans in return for asylum. With the East German secret police closing in someone will have to
go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It's a job Deputy Director
James Greer can only trust to one man - Jack Ryan. Ryan is a former Marine and a brilliant CIA
analyst but this time he's 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? Twenty years after Tom
Clancy's classic novel Red Rabbit this is white-knuckle prequel introduces a never-before-seen
Jack Ryan at the beginning of his career.