Nikolai Gerasimov

Nikolai Gerasimov is a fictitious character of the novels of Tom Clancy.

Nikolai Gerasimov is director of the KGB. Man qualified, conspiring, ambitious, and member of the Politburo, it dreams to reverse Andrei It Narmonov to take his place as a general secretary of PCUS. With this intention, it is combined with the ideologist of the Politburo, very old and very preserving Alexandrov, last vestige of the time Stalinist and in favor of a Marxisme-léninisme pure and hard, opposed to the tendency reformist of Narmonov and the Pérestroïka.

Equipped with a great influence on Soviet Poliburo, it makes blackmail on Vaneyev, a partisan of Narmonov, to constitute in its back a majority against him and to reverse it.

Having made stop the Cardinal ready to reveal the scandal of this business to destabilize Narmonov, he is victim in his turn of a blackmail, by Jack Ryan, which leaves him the choice between the revelation of its lies in the business of the Red October (With the continuation of Red October); what will imply its disgrace; and its passage to the West accompanied by Cardinal. He will choose finally the second option.

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