Sunday Salon Readings - Red Rabbit - 3rd Time

PLEASE HELP ME! I am stuck in between the covers of this Tom Clancy book and I can't get out!

Reading these past two weeks seem almost impossible. I have managed to read three more chapters of Red Rabbit, which is a very small amount for me. Well here is the current scheme.

Comrade Yuriy Andropov has sent a encrypted message to the KGB station chief in Rome, a certain Colonel Goderenko. The Colonel replies to the message recommending that the Chairman forget his plans of physical action against the Pope. The action would mean an end to their opportunities to spy in that area.

After receiving the reply Andropov meets again with Colonel Rozhdestvenskiy and they decide to ferret the action plan through the Bulgarian KGB. Knowing the Bulgarians' were Moscow's little brothers their plan would not be questioned only executed. Executed being the right choice of words.

Meanwhile Comrade Zaitzev the message encrypter is thinking, which the Soviet workers are not supposed to do, kill the Pope, why? His country's morality has surely sunk to a low point. As the comrade is leaving work he spots what he thinks is an American agent and deftly checks his pockets for anything of value. Of course the American, Mr. Tom Foley chooses to act as if he did not feel the hand but muses as to this being a test for a note drop from the Russian.

On to next week and to hopefully the last Red Rabbit review, if not would someone throw me a cracker?

Hope all the Sunday Saloner's are doing well!