Red Rabbit / Tom Clancy / 618 pages / Deceased Author Challenge

This Clancy is an epic read about Soviet-British-American relations and the covert, and not so covert, spying that accompanies it.  A Russian operative is terribly upset when he passes along a top secret coded communication of a plot to kill the Pope.  His ties to his native Poland have caused him to enter the political fray as Russia attempts to exert power in his native land.  Due to a fluke, John Patrick Ryan, a CIA analyst stationed in Britain is called upon to collect the defecting Red Rabbit and his family and whisk them to freedom.  Unfortunately, the powers that be put security above the Pope's life...Jack does not...