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  • I started listening to this one and just wanted to finish it faster, so I picked up the paperback at the library. There were so many twists and turns I hardly could keep them straight, but I still enjoyed the book. I look forward to trying other books by Robert Ludlum.

    

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Robert Ludlum is the acknowledged master of suspense and international intrigue.For the past twenty-five years he has had an unbroken string of bestselling novels, selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and setting a standard that has yet to be surpassed.With The Prometheus Deception, Ludlum's first new novel in three years, he is at the very pinnacle of his craft.Nicholas Bryson was a deep-cover operative for a secret American intelligence group called the Directorate.After a mission went wrong he was retired to a new identity as a college professor in Pennsylvania.Now, years later, he discovers that the Directorate was using him against his own country's interests.The deputy director of the CIA enlists Bryson to stop the Directorate's latest lethal maneuver and end the group for good.But it's been years since Bryson has been in the field - his skills are rusty, his contacts unreliable, and he doesn't know whom, if anyone, can be trusted.Complicating matters is his wife, the woman who disappeared by her own design just before the fatal mission that ended Bryson's first career.The truth behind the relationship - indeed, many truths - are about to be learned the hard way.AUTHORBIO: Robert Ludlum is the author of twenty-one bestselling novels published in thirty-two languages and forty countries.Read and heard by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, his books include The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Rhinemann Exchange, The Aquitaine Progression, The Icarus Agenda, and The Bourne Identity. He lives in Florida.

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