The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan, #4; Jack Ryan Universe, #5)

by Tom Clancy

First, the diplomats and politicians.

Second, the soldiers.

Third, the reporters.

Fourth came the final group, the invisible one, those whom no one could identify in any easy way. These were the spies,

after a few days of war even the most adamant atheist invoked the name of God.

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud,

They went past the American compound again on the way, past the former Greek Orthodox church known to embassy wags as Our Lady of the Microchips for all the surveillance devices it surely contained.

But in the Soviet Union, the saying went, things happened that simply didn’t happen.