《Jack Ryan 5 - The Cardinal of the Kremli 》作者： - Clancy_ Tom【EPUB】

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Jack Ryan 5 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin Jack Ryan 5 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin Jack Ryan 5 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin Jack Ryan 5 - The Cardinal of the Kremlin Prologue: ?? Threats—Old New and Timeless ?? ?? T HEY called him the Archer. It was an honorable title though his countrymen had castaside their reflex bows over a century before as soon as they had learned about firearms. Inpart the name reflected the timeless nature of the struggle. The first of the Westerninvaders—for that was how they thought of them—had been Alexander the Great and more hadfollowed since. Ultimately all had failed. The Afghan tribesmen held their Islamic faith asthe reason for their resistance but the obstinate courage of these men was as much a part oftheir racial heritage as their dark pitiless eyes. The Archer was a young man and an old one. On those occasions that he had both the desire andopportunity to bathe in a mountain stream anyone could see the youthful muscles on his thirty-year-old body. They were the smooth muscles of one for whom a thousand-foot climb over barerock was as unremarkable a part of life as a stroll to the mailbox. It was his eyes that were old. The Afghans are a handsome people whose forthright features andfair skin suffer quickly from wind and sun and dust too often making them older than theiryears. For the Archer the damage had not been done by wind. A teacher of mathematics untilthree years before a college graduate in a country where most deemed it enough to be able toread the holy Koran hed married young as was the custom in his land and fathered twochildren. But his wife and daughter were dead killed by rockets fired from a Sukhoi-24 attack-fighter. His son was gone. Kidnapped. After the Soviets had flattened the village of his wifes family with air power their groundtroops had come killing the remaining adults and sweeping up all the orphans for shipment tothe Soviet Union where they would be educated and trained in other modern ways. All becausehis wife had wanted her mother to see the grandchildren before she died the Archer rememberedall because a Soviet patrol had been fired upon a few kilometers from the village. On the dayhed learned this—a week after it had actually happened—the teacher