The Sigma Protocol : International Edition

Ludlum, Robert

ISBN 10: 0312984529 / ISBN 13: 9780312984526

Published by St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002

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Robert Ludlum's trademark skills of intricate plotting, breakneck pacing, a nd high-wire drama are all on display in this gripping thriller. 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, set ting off a chain of events that ultimately leads Ben into the thick of a wo rldwide 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 communis m. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000002396

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Sigma Protocol : International Edition

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

Now comes The Sigma Protocol, a new breakneck novel of intrigue, conspiracy, and terrifying deception.

American investment banker Ben Hartman arrives in Zurich for a ski holiday, the first time he's been back to Switzerland since his twin brother died there in a tragic accident four years earlier. But his arrival in Zurich triggers something far more sinister than his brother's fate. When Ben chances upon Jimmy Cavanaugh, an old college friend, Cavanaugh promptly pulls out a gun and tries to kill him. In a matter of minutes, several innocent bystanders are dead - as well as Cavanaugh - and Ben has barely managed to survive. Plunged into an unspeakable nightmare, Hartman suddenly finds himself on the run.

Department of Justice field agent Anna Navarro is being stalked around the world by a relentless killer, managing to survive the killer's attacks only by a combination of luck, skill and her own quick wits. These attacks are somehow related to her current assignment: investigating the sudden - and seemingly unrelated - deaths of a number of very old men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them is a file in the CIA archives, over a half-century old, marked with the same puzzling code word: SIGMA. But someone or something is always seemingly one step ahead of her, the survivors are rapidly dwindling, and her own life is in ever increasing danger.

Brought together by accident, Ben and Anna soon realize that their only hope of survival lies with each other. Together they race to uncover the diabolical secrets long hidden behind the code word, Sigma. Secrets that threaten everything they think they know about themselves, everything they believed true about their friends and families, and everything they were ever taught about history itself. For behind Sigma lies a vast deception that is finally coming to fruition and the fate and future of the world is in their hands.

About the Author:

Robert Ludlum is the author of twenty-three novels published in thirty two languages and forty countries. Read by hundreds of millions world-wide, his books include The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Bourne Identity, The Chancellor Manuscript and The Prometheus Deception.