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 government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an
offer they can't pass up...if it's 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. 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 who's
been the architect of some of the CIA's biggest coups 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?
