This book came out in 2003 with Gayle Lynds as the co-author. I still enjoyed it and it was a good vacation read! " - Eric, You know the good guy was going to get away but even the way it happened was just a little too predictable. " For me this book got a little slow in the middle with the action and sort of predictable also. " Very quick reading and a good spy novel. " Don't know why I decided to read this one. The book was ok, but the continual miraculous resolution of a perilous situation became more numbing than exciting. " Enjoyable read, but it created a superman-type character out of someone who would realistically be more of an academic. " read this a long time ago but I think I'd give it a 5 " - Lostswordsman, Unlike Clancy's books that can seem to go on and on, this one kept things moving and interesting. " This was my first spy thriller other than Tom Clancy. " Not bad - I enjoy an espionage story once and awhile " - Cherie, " Another gread Covert One novel! " - Alison,
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I am trying to update this with my Blackberry, a real challenge. It is a good road trip book lots of action, mystery, and characters to keep up with. " We listened to this while driving south to Florida. The twist and turns are awesome!! " - Heidi, I read it in two days and that is only because I forced myself to go to bed. " I loved this book and I couldn't put it down for a second. " Gayle is pretty good with Ludlums franchise " - Tommy, Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.Gripping.robust writing and a breakneck pace. Midwest Book ReviewĪ pop hit.that should bounce right up the bestseller lists. Mobile RegisterĪn exciting medical-military thriller that moves at a rapid pace to its climax.an exciting new series. If a Pulitzer Prize were awarded for escapist fiction, Robert Ludlum undoubtedly would have won it. The Daily Oklahomanĭon't ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.
He is unsurpassed at weaving a tapestry of stunningly diverse figures, then assembling them in a sequence so gripping that the reader's attention never wavers. Robert Ludlum is the master of gripping, fast-moving intrigue.
Welcome to Robert Ludlum's world.fast pacing, tight plotting, international intrigue. Reading a Ludlum novel is like watching a James Bond film. Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six pack of thriller writers combined. Ludlum pulls out all the stops and dazzles his readers. dominates the field in strong, tightly plotted, adventure-drenched thrillers. “Ludlum is light years beyond his literary competition in piling plot twist upon plot twist, until the mesmerized reader is held captive. Racing against the clock, Smith uncovers the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party and reveals a terrifying cabal whose diabolical plan thrusts the world to the very brink of war. But the second agent is murdered, the proof is destroyed, and Smith is left only with a verbal message-the president's biological father is still alive, held prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. Jon Smith is sent to Taiwan to rendezvous with another agent who has acquired the ship's true manifest. Under cover of a medical conference, operative Col.
Fighting to keep the agreement on track, the president orders the head of Covert-One to find proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. At the same time, he doesn't want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. The president cannot let the ship reach Iraq. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese cargo ship rumored to carry tons of chemicals for Saddam Hussein to create new biological weapons. Two weeks later, on the dangerous high seas, the U.S. On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when he's brutally killed and his camera destroyed.
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The thrilling fourth volume in the bestselling Covert-One series
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