Red Rabbit

"And then Jack forgot all about the rest of his work, because on his very first day, an extraordinary document crossed his desk. The new Pope, John Paul II, had just delivered a private ultimatum to Warsaw: If the government persisted in its repression he would feel compelled to resign the papacy and return to Poland." "Damn, thought Jack. That was going to have consequences." "And in Moscow, another man was contemplating those very same consequences. Yuriy Andropov, the chairman of the KGB, did not like what he read, did not like what it meant for him or for his nation. All it took was one man to cause everything he had worked for to crumble. And all it took was one man to stop him. The Pope was very powerful - but he was also mortal, wasn't he?"–BOOK JACKET.