The Gemini Contenders

The Gemini Contenders

by RobertLudlum (Author)

Synopsis

In the dead of night, December 1939, a train winds its way through Italy towards the Alps with a cargo too precious to destroy, too awful to reveal. On board is an iron box. Its sinister contents, documents concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world and set religion against religion, an entire people against another. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, good men and evil are drawn into a violent and deadly hunt. The richest aristocrat in Italy is responsible for the documents' safety, but he's marked for death by the Nazis. Some people want the secrets told. Some people want to plunge the world into a catastrophic holy war ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Orion
Published: 19 Aug 2004

ISBN 10: 0752858564
ISBN 13: 9780752858562
Book Overview: During his thirty-year career Ludlum sold 220 million copies in 40 countries in 32 different languages His recent books have been SUNDAY TIMES bestsellers and GUARDIAN fastsellers in paperback Ludlum's THE BOURNE IDENTITY was a major Hollywood movie starring Matt Damon and THE BOURNE SUPREMACY is now in production Ludlum always receives first-rate reviews: 'Terrific entertainment ... the tension is fierce, the pace killing' COSMOPOLITAN 'A page-turner of non-stop action that should leave his fans begging for more' NEW YORK POST 'A fast-paced thriller from a reliable master' DAILY MAIL 'Huge in scope ... Ludlum spins it all together with lots of suspense' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Fascinating to contemplate and absolutely within the realms of possibility' NEW YORK TIMES 'A master at the conspiracy theory type of thriller, his books operate on an ever-spiralling series of surprise revelations' IRISH TIMES 'Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined' NEW YORK TIMES 'The real titan of the genre is Robert Ludlum ... the world's most read writer' GQ

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His most ambitious novel. Its twists and turns carry the reader on a fast bobsled run...A marvelously unflagging imagination. -- The New York Times
Author Bio
Robert Ludlum launched his career as a bestselling writer with THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE in 1971, the first of a string of international bestsellers. There are more than 300 million copies of his books in print and they have been translated in 32 languages.