by Robert Ludlum (Author), Philip Shelby (Compiler)
What they're going to do, I would never have believed it. It's insanity! They were the last words spoken by Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia's security service, before his body was ripped apart by a spray of assassin's bullets. Now Covert-One's Jon Smith has Danko's classified papers, and he's unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy. A Serb terrorist has been despatched from Russia to smuggle hazardous vials of a deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: to deliver them to an unknown US government agent. Then both men are murdered, and the deadly bacteria is stolen...It's up to Lt Col Smith to find the madman who possesses it, before he holds a defenceless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Orion
Published: 01 Dec 2005
ISBN 10: 0752858661
ISBN 13: 9780752858661
Book Overview: During his thirty-year career Ludlum sold 220 million copies in 40 countries in 32 different languages. All Ludlum's recent books have been Sunday Times bestsellers and Guardian fastsellers in paperback. Ludlum's The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy were both blockbusting Hollywood movies starring Matt Damon. The third Bourne movie is in pre-production. Robert Ludlum always receives first-rate reviews: 'A writer who bests the bestsellers' Daily Telegraph. '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. 'A master at the conspiracy theory type of thriller, his books operate on an ever-spiralling series of surprise revelations' Irish Times. 'Terrific entertainment ... the tension is fierce, the pace killing' Cosmopolitan. 'Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined' New York Times.