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 Consular Operations. Lugner, however, has a reputation for posing as people's business partner and then screwing them over. Lugner has even sold out his own country. However, Belknap senses that he is be... more

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 Consular Operations. Lugner, however, has a reputation for posing as people's business partner and then screwing them over. Lugner has even sold out his own country. However, Belknap senses that he is being tracked, in his words, "the tracker is being tracked". Finding Lugner's suite at 7-Stock, he attempts to get in, but not before being held at gunpoint by the Stasi police. Lugner opens the door behind Belknap, and hits Belknap on the side of the neck and pins him down. In his own suite, Lugner holds him at gunpoint threatening him. In a matter of seconds, Lugner is sniped through the window in his right temple. From a gun flying through the window, Belknap shoots one of the gunman right through the chest. Belknap meets his rescuer, Jared... less