With its cash holdings dwindling due to recent military expansions, China decides to hasten its planned invasion of Siberia in order to access the newly discovered oil and gold fields. In reaction, most nations impose a trade boycott on the PRC. In the process, one of the on site policemen who mistakenly beleives his partner is being attacked puts a bullet through the cardinal's spleen. Due to the quick actions of his former Spetsnaz Gru bodyguard/chauffer, he survives when his would be attackers mistakenly target another individual in an identical car who happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.A roving CNN news team in China captures on tape the murder of Cardinal Renato di Milo, the Papal Nuncio to Beijing, and a Chinese Baptist minister, Yu Fa An, while attempting to stop Chinese authorities from performing a forced late-term abortion on a member of Yu's congregation. But China decides to speed up its plan to invade Siberia, which had been delayed after the defeat of Japan in the book Debt of Honor.Plot SummaryIn the prologue Sergy Golovko, the chairman of the SVR and friend of President Ryan, is being chaufered to his workplace in an armoured white Mercedes S-600 when somebody shoots at him with an RPG7. After Russia discovers oil fields rivaling those of the Persian Gulf in Siberia and gold deposits just as big, it looks as if the struggling Russian economy is on the road to recovery. Plot IntroductionIn the book Jack Ryan is President of the United States. Glog text The Bear byTom Clancy The Dragon &
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