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Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 25 thriller novels. There are more than 290 million copies of his books in print, and they have been translated into 32 languages. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.
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The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about a retrograde amnesiac who must discover who he is and why several groups, including an assassin and the CIA, are trying to kill him. It is the first of the Bourne...
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- Feb 1980
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The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Supremacy is the second Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum, first published in 1986. It was the sequel to Ludlum's bestseller The Bourne Identity (1980) and precedes Ludlum's final Bourne novel, The Bourne Ultimatum (1990).
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- Feb 11, 1986
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The Gemini Contenders
The Gemini Contenders is a 1976 novel by Robert Ludlum.
At the start of World War II a train departs from Salonika and heads for the Italian Alps, carrying a mysterious cargo. Over the next four decades, various members of the wealthy Italian...
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- 1976
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The Hacker
The Hacker is the third Gregory Kane novel written by John Bryson and a sequel to The Double Agent (1986). First published in 1990, it was the last Kane novel to be written by Ludlum himself. Kevin Van Lendrik wrote a sequel titled The Assassin...
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The Sigma Protocol
The Sigma Protocol is the last novel written completely by Robert Ludlum, and was published posthumously. It is the story of the son of a Holocaust survivor who gets entangled in an international conspiracy by industrialists and financiers to take...
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- Oct 30, 2001
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The Matarese Circle
The Matarese Circle (1979) is a novel by Robert Ludlum.
Scofield and Taleniekov make their way through the obstacles and ravages of a cabal known as the Matarese. They find out that the Matarese has infiltrated the highest ranks of the society. They...
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- 1979
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The Road to Gandolfo
The Road to Gandolfo is a story by Michael Shephard (a pen name used by Robert Ludlum) about General MacKenzie Hawkins ("The Hawk"), a living military legend and a veteran. He defaces an important Chinese memorial as a result of being drugged by a...
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- Jan 1975
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The Bourne Legacy
The Bourne Legacy is a spy fiction thriller written by Eric Van Lustbader and based on the character of Jason Bourne created by author Robert Ludlum. The novel was published in 2004 and is a sequel to 1990's The Bourne Ultimatum. He has also written...
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- Jun 22, 2004
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The Prometheus Deception
The Prometheus Deception is a spy fiction thriller novel written in 2000 by Robert Ludlum about an agent in an ultraclandestine agency known only as the Directorate named Nick Bryson, alias Jonas Barett, alias Jonathan Coleridge, alias The...
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- Oct 31, 2000
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The Holcroft Covenant
The Holcroft Covenant is a 1978 novel by Robert Ludlum. In 1985 it was made into a film of the same name.
The novel concerns Noel Holcroft, New York architect—and secretly the son of Heinrich Clausen, chief economic advisor to the Third Reich. At...
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- Jul 27, 1978
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The Chancellor Manuscript
The Chancellor Manuscript is a 1977 novel, written by Robert Ludlum, about the "alleged" secret files of J. Edgar Hoover and how they disappeared after his death, and how they possibly could be used to force people in high places to do the bidding...
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- Jun 1977
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The Icarus Agenda
The Icarus Agenda is a 1988 thriller novel by bestselling author Robert Ludlum. It is the sequel to The Chancellor Manuscript.
Evan Kendrick is a U.S. Congressman from a remote Western Colorado district. As a former building contractor in the Middle...
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- Feb 22, 1988
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The Parsifal Mosaic
The Parsifal Mosaic is a spy fiction novel by Robert Ludlum in 1982.
Michael Havelock, (an anglicized version of Mikhail Havlíček), is an intelligence agent in the United States. At the beginning of the novel he believes he has just witnessed the...
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- Feb 12, 1982
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The Scorpio Illusion
The Scorpio Illusion is a 1993 novel by the late Robert Ludlum. It is a mix of suspense, drama, action and thriller.
Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer - one of the best - until the rain-swept night in Amsterdam when his wife was...
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- Apr 8, 1993
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The Ambler Warning
The Ambler Warning is a Robert Ludlum spy thriller that takes us to a place on Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia. Left as an incomplete manuscript by Ludlum's death in 2001, the author's estate hired an author and an...
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- Oct 18, 2005
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The Apocalypse Watch
The Apocalypse Watch is a novel by Robert Ludlum. A TV movie based on it aired in 1997. This was Ludlum's second novel to focus on a neo-Nazi conspiracy to take over the world, the other being The Holcroft Covenant.
The plot concerns Drew Latham, a...
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- Apr 10, 1995
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The Janson Directive
The Janson Directive is a novel by Robert Ludlum. The posthumous novel was published in 2002, a year after Ludlum's death.
Paul Janson is an ex-Navy SEAL and former member of a U.S. government covert agency called Consular Operations. He is haunted...
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- Oct 15, 2002
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The Aquitaine Progression
The Aquitaine Progression is a novel by Robert Ludlum originally published in 1984.
Joel Converse is a lawyer, having previously been a fighter pilot in the Vietnam war. Because of his wartime experiences with Command Saigon, in the form of a...
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- Feb 12, 1984
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The Scarlatti Inheritance
The Scarlatti Inheritance is the first of 25 thriller novels published by American author Robert Ludlum.
In Washington during World War II, word is received that an elite member of the Nazi High Command is willing to defect and divulge information...
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- 1970
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The Tristan Betrayal
The Tristan Betrayal is a novel by Robert Ludlum, published posthumously in 2003. Ludlum wrote an outline shortly before his death. The novel itself was written by a ghostwriter.
In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power -...
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- Oct 28, 2003
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The Matlock Paper
The Matlock Paper is the third suspense novel by Robert Ludlum, in which a solitary protagonist comes face to face with a massive criminal conspiracy.
Its protagonist, James Barbour Matlock, is an English professor in his 30s who is recruited by the...
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- Apr 1973
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The Matarese Countdown
The Matarese Countdown is an espionage thriller novel by Robert Ludlum. It is the sequel to the The Matarese Circle.
Like the legendary phoenix, the Materese are rising from the ashes and are regaining their former power. The new leader of the...
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- Oct 13, 1997
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The Osterman Weekend
The Osterman Weekend is a thriller novel by Robert Ludlum. First published in 1972, it was the author's second book.
John Tanner, the host of an investigative news show, is convinced by a CIA agent that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the...
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- 1972
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The Bancroft Strategy
The Bancroft Strategy is a spy novel credited to Robert Ludlum, posthumously published on October 17, 2006.
In the prologue, the time is 1987, and Todd Belknap is trying to track Richard Lugner in East Berlin, Germany Belknap is a field agent for...
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- Oct 17, 2006
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The Bourne Trajectory
The Bourne Betrayal is the title for the novel by Eric Van Lustbader and the fifth novel in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum. It was published in June 2007. It is Lustbader's second Bourne novel, following The Bourne Legacy that was...
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- Jun 5, 2007
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The Rhinemann Exchange
The Rhinemann Exchange is a novel of suspense by Robert Ludlum, set in the middle of the Second World War.
We are introduced to David Spaulding, on the eve of the Second World War. Spaulding, a radio voice actor, is recruited by Colonel Ed Pace to...
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- 1974
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The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Ultimatum is the third Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum and a sequel to The Bourne Supremacy (1986). First published in 1990, it was the last Bourne novel to be written by Ludlum himself. Eric Van Lustbader wrote a sequel...
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- Feb 25, 1990
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Trevayne
Trevayne is Robert Ludlum's fourth novel, published in 1973 under the pseudonym Jonathan Ryder (though later reissued under Ludlum's proper name). Ludlum explained the reason for his use of a pseudonym by saying, "I...had to publish Trevayne under...
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The Road to Omaha
The Road to Omaha is a novel by Robert Ludlum published in 1992. It is a sequel to his earlier book The Road to Gandolfo. Both are comedic thrillers concerning Army lawyer, Sam Devereaux, who gets caught up in the deranged schemes of General...
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- Feb 8, 1992
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The Bourne Sanction
The Bourne Sanction is the title for the novel by Eric Van Lustbader and the sixth novel in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum. It was released on July 29, 2008. It is Lustbader's third Bourne novel, following The Bourne Betrayal that...
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- Jul 29, 2008
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The Bourne Deception
The Bourne Deception is the title for the novel by Eric Van Lustbader and the seventh novel in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum. It was released on June 9, 2009. It is Lustbader's fourth Bourne novel, following The Bourne Sanction...
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Le week-end Osterman
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Le Complot des Matarèse
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Le pacte Holcroft
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Trevayne
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Das Matarese- Mosaik
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Das Jesus- Papier
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Le secret Halidon
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Zlecenie Jansona
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Das Sigma- Protokoll
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La Route d'Omaha
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Ultimatum de Bourne, El
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Halidonların Büyüsü
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Pacto de Holcroft, El
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Le duel des gémeaux
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Die Bourne Identität
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Ikarus plan
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L'eredita Scarlatti
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