The bear and the dragon

Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President hasn` t got any easier : domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, In Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR the former KGB . with a rocket . propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high . level assassination, but even more disturbing may be identities of the potential assassin. Where they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB ? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here?