The Sigma Protocol (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Ludlum, Robert

9780786238880: The Sigma Protocol (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

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ISBN 10: 0786238887 ISBN 13: 9780786238880

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2002

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When a childhood friend unexpectedly attempts to murder him in Switzerland, an American investment banker begins to unravel a mystery involving his famous financier father and a mysterious OSS case code-named Sigma.

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Robert Ludlum's trademark skills of intricate plotting, breakneck pacing, and high-wire drama are all on display in the gripping thriller Sigma Protocol. After his twin brother dies in a plane crash, Ben Hartman reluctantly takes his place in the investment firm started by their father, a Holocaust survivor. But then an old college buddy tries to kill Ben on a crowded Zurich street, setting off a chain of events that ultimately leads Ben into the thick of a worldwide conspiracy. Behind it is Sigma, a multinational cartel built on the rubble of World War II by industrialists and financiers bent on exploiting wartime technology and protecting their wealth from the threat of communism.

Accompanied by a beautiful American justice department agent, Ben eludes the assassins on his trail and follows Sigma's tentacles across Europe, to Brazil, Washington and finally to a sanitarium known as the Clockworks in the Austrian Alps, where the horrifying agenda of a perverted new world order is revealed. Ludlum, who died between the writing and publishing of this book, was a master of the genre he helped popularise, and The Sigma Protocol shows him at the peak of his craft. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com