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    The Sigma Protocol: A Novel
    The Sigma Protocol: A Novel
    The Sigma Protocol: A Novel
    Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

    The Sigma Protocol: A Novel

    Written by Robert Ludlum

    Narrated by Paul Michael

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2003
    ISBN9781593971465
    The Sigma Protocol: A Novel
    Author

    Robert Ludlum

    Robert Ludlum (1927-2001) was the author of 25 thriller novels, including The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum--the books on which the international hit movies were based--and The Sigma Protocol. He was also the creator of the Covert-One series. Born in New York City, Ludlum received a B.A. from Wesleyan University, and before becoming an author, he was a United States Marine, a theater actor and producer.

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    • 5/5
      I'm not a conspiracy theorist but this book will make you consider becoming one.
    • 4/5
      Well, despite the fact that the book begins with a sextuple homicide and footchase through Zurich, this book took awhile to get into. However, once the plot got started, it was very engaging. Plenty of action and suspense, but well-plotted and not random. I figured out the "main" mystery and the big final "twist" about 100 pages before they were revealed, but that didn't detract from the overall enjoyment of the book. Definitely worth a read.
    • 5/5
      He sure knew how to spin a yarn!!!
    • 3/5
      Started off much better than it ended. Lots of action but too much of it predictable. I didn't particularly care for the female protaganist and got tired of the extended history lessons. Despite all that, the overall story was interesting enough that I wanted to finish the book to see how it ended. Touching...but kind of weak.
    • 3/5
      This is the first Ludlum book I've read, and I enjoyed it, for the most part. It had a little bit too much bad guy monologging that I tended to skim, but I got the jist of it. I like spy/espionage/intrigue stories, and Ludlum is one of the best.
    • 3/5
      Same old formula, pair of incredibly attractive and talented victims manage to avoid the clutches of an international Nazi conspiracy while everyone around them is assassinated. Better writing than Ludlum's earlier works--dialog is much better than Bourne.
    • 4/5
      Typical Ludlum thriller in which a wealthy American gets sucked into a world of espionage and international conspiracy. Well-paced and wryly characterised, this made a great travel read.
    • 2/5
      Cookie cutter and predictable. Toward the end, I wasn't waiting to find out what was going on. Rather, I was listening to see how long it would take to confirm that which I figured out a couple hundred pages before...
    • 2/5
      Not very impressive. A worldwide conspiracy of business men from both sides of the war are changing "government" and a few loose ends need tidying up. This spate of deaths brings in an american secret service investigator and a son who interact just about plausably. They are followed by the cartel who manage to eliminate most of the clues, but eventually the cartel are tracked to their lair and eistroyed. Not gripping and not believable.