Patrick Larkin, Author, Robert Ludlum, Author, Robert Ludlum, Created by . Griffin $15.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-31679-2
Larkin (The Tribune
) picks up the reins for the fifth entry in the Ludlum-spawned Covert-One biotech series (The Altman Code
; etc.), bringing to the task a solid intelligence, some really scary nanotechnology and a writing style that sometimes...
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Robert Ludlum, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-312-27688-1
In what will likely be Ludlum's first (but not last) posthumous blockbuster, a world-altering scheme masterminded by an ex-Nazi cohort of Mengele overcomes the ethical and moral resistance of the world's most respected and powerful business...
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Robert Ludlum, Author Bantam $7.99 (672p) ISBN 978-0-553-56603-1
Ludlum's latest thriller sold 600,000 copies in hardcover. (June)
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Robert Ludlum, Author Bantam $7.99 (768p) ISBN 978-0-553-56957-5
Ludlum's latest suspense tale of international intrigue spent 12 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (May)
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Robert Ludlum, Author Bantam $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-553-57614-6
Ludlum's tale of international intrigue was originally published under a pseudonym in 1975. (Nov.)
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Robert Ludlum, Author Random House (NY) $19.95 (597p) ISBN 978-0-394-54396-3
Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this. A Peking leader of seemingly irreproachable reputation, secretly a Kuomintang fanatic, has...
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Robert Ludlum, Author Random House (NY) $19.95 (677p) ISBN 978-0-394-54397-0
Ludlum's 14th suspense caper has the earmarks of all his others: the mysterious cabal involved in global conspiracy; the surges of sudden violence; the careful veneer of local color to provide authenticity; and the rather graceless prose punctuated...
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Robert Ludlum, Author Random House (NY) $21.95 (611p) ISBN 978-0-394-58408-9
The literary faults and stylistic excesses that characterized The Icarus Agenda , The Gemini Contenders and other of Ludlum's works are present in his latest mammoth thriller, but fans will nonetheless cheer the return of his most popular character,
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Robert Ludlum, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-312-31669-3
The author's death three years ago has not prevented St. Martin's from publishing recent material under his name. This WWII-era thriller opens in August 1991 as American ambassador Stephen Metcalfe arrives in Moscow, where Communist hard-line
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Robert Ludlum, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (489p) ISBN 978-0-312-31671-6
For some bestselling authors, death is no impediment to an enduring career. But the latest Ludlum (d. 2001) novel, penned by an unnamed hired hand, reveals the problems inherent in such an arrangement: neither sufficiently like Ludlum's...
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Robert Ludlum, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (542p) ISBN 978-0-312-25348-6
Ludlum died in March 2001, but here he is again, back with yet another posthumous thriller. Such books rarely live up to the author's standards, but this one is different: it's vintage Ludlum—big, brawny and loaded with surprises. The...
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Robert Ludlum, Author . St. Martin's $26.95 (538p) ISBN 978-0-312-31673-0
The latest international thriller to appear under Ludlum's name, with its by-the-numbers plot and stereotypical characters, fails to do justice to the late author, who made his mark with such taut and compelling novels as The Scarlatti...
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Robert Ludlum, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09441-1
If you took the bite and humor out of a Richard Condon novel, the result would be very like Ludlum's ( The Road to Omaha ) 18th book. As a child, beautiful Amaya Aquirre, witnessed the brutal murder of her Basque parents, after which she adopted the
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Robert Ludlum, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (645p) ISBN 978-0-553-09993-5
While Ludlum's readers will probably scoop up his latest thriller come what may, they may be disheartened to find it has a virtually suspenseless plot. Brilliant deep-cover American agent Harry Latham is captured and implanted with a mind-control...
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Robert Ludlum, Author St Martin's Press $27.95 (509p) ISBN 978-0-312-25346-2
Ludlum goes full throttle in this frantically paced, if somewhat hollow, tale of one man's efforts to thwart the forces of world domination. That man is Nick Bryson, a retired operative for the Directorate, the most secretive of the world's many...
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Ludlum continues to imitate his imitators in his second Covert-One biotech thriller (after The Hades Factor), this time with coauthor Shelby (Days of Drums, etc.). Medical researcher and sometime spy Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith—aided by CIA agent...
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Robert Ludlum, Author, Gayle Lynds, Author, Gayle Lynds, Joint Author . St. Martin's/Griffin $15.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-28990-4
This latest product from the efficient assembly line of the Ludlum thriller factory has been somewhat overtaken by events: it revolves around a Chinese freighter carrying weapons-grade chemicals to the port of Basra in Saddam Hussein's Iraq....
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Robert Ludlum, Author, Gayle Lynds, Author, Gayle Lynds, Joint Author . St. Martin's/Griffin $15.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-28987-4
After a 30-year career that engendered dozens of bestselling novels of international intrigue, Ludlum died in the spring of 2001, just before publication of The Cassandra Compact, the second title in the Covert-One biotech series. This third Covert-O
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Robert Ludlum, Author, Gayle Lynds, Joint Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-26437-6
In his first book since 1997's The Matarese Countdown, onetime thriller superstar Ludlum teams up with Lynds (Masquerade; Mosaic) for a lackluster trade paperback original, the first volume in a Tom Clancy-like series called ""Covert-One."" The...
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Eric Van Lustbader, read by Jeremy Davidson. Hachette Audio, abridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-60941-208-1
The latest installment in the Jason Bourne series finds the amnesiac superspy on a mission to prevent terrorists from bringing America to its knees via destruction of the country’s vital natural resources—all while he tries to reconcile his...
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James Cobb, Author, Robert Ludlum, Author, Jeff Woodman, Read by , read by Jeff Woodman. Hachette Audio $39.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-654-1
James H. Cobb is no Robert Ludlum. Although he wasn’t a great prose stylist, Ludlum (who died in 2001) could keep a story engine churning like nobody’s business. Compared to him, Cobb is a plodding, mechanical, cliché-ridden hired
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