The Sigma Protocol

Ludlum, Robert

ISBN 10: 0312982518 / ISBN 13: 9780312982515

Published by St. Martin's Paperbacks, NY, 2002

About this Item

First Printing (full number line). Publisher's glossy wraps. 12mo. 662, (3) pp. This is an unmarked copy, tight, square and clean; covers lightly worn, else fine. NEAR FINE. Mass Market Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 7075

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Sigma Protocol

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, NY

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Edition: First Paperback Edition. 1.

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Synopsis:

Robert Ludlum's trademark skills of intricate plotting, breakneck pacing, and 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, setting off a chain of events that ultimately leads Ben into the thick of a worldwide conspiracy.

Review:

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