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The Cassandra Compact

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by Robert Ludlum
Phillip Shelby
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Covert-One returns in the thrilling new series from the bestselling master of international suspense For over thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in nearly every country around the world, his audios have been heard by tens of millions of listeners. In 2000, Ludlum managed to raise the bar yet again with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor, the first novel in his exciting new Covert-One series. Now Covert-One is back, in a novel that could only have come from the imagination of the world's greatest storyteller. Lt. Colonel Jon Smith, currently working as a medical researcher, is contacted by a Russian colleague with an urgent request that they meet in Venice in ten days. When they meet, however, his colleague is killed almost instantly in a hail of automatic gunfire but not before he passes to Smith the vital intelligence-someone is out to steal Russia's store of the smallpox virus. Completely irradiated, smallpox is the deadliest of viruses and could well cause an epidemic of unheard of proportions should it be unleashed on the population at large. Smith, with the help of his colleagues at Covert-One, must prevent the virus from being stolen. But his adversaries are several steps ahead of him and now he must find and stop the conspirators before they loose Armageddon upon the world.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Covert-One

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 1, 2003

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781593971359
      • File size: 198616 KB
      • Duration: 06:53:46

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 2, 2001
      Ludlum continues to imitate his imitators in his second Covert-One biotech thriller (after The Hades Factor), this time with coauthor Shelby (Days of Drums, etc.). Medical researcher and sometime spy Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith—aided by CIA agent Randi Russell, British operative Peter Howell and ultrasecret spymaster Nathaniel Klein—faces another villainous plot to unleash a deadly disease on an unsuspecting populace. Retired from the Army Medical Research Unit for Infectious Diseases after the death of his fiancée, Smith heads to Venice to meet a Russian scientist who is killed by Sicilian mercenaries before he can warn Smith that a sample of smallpox is about to be stolen from a Russian bioresearch facility. Up against a global military-corporate conspiracy with moles at NASA, the Pentagon and the KGB, Smith follows the smallpox across the Atlantic to Houston Mission Control and beyond. The cinematic chase through changing landscapes and mounting body count gives the book its rapid pace, while insider politics, tradecraft and technical wizardry lend an extra kick. Boilerplate dialogue ("The hit came down as arranged. But there was an unexpected development. I'm expecting an update shortly") and movie logic (after ordering the space shuttle to land in Nevada with the most virulent smallpox strain ever and several dead astronauts aboard, the president hops Air Force One to go meet it) show Ludlum may leverage his brand name, but no longer delivers the complex situations that earned him his reputation as a premier writer of international intrigue. National advertising. (May 15)Forecast:Ludlum died just last month, and word is he left a few books in the works. It's been a while since he was in top form, but some readers are bound to overlook the telltale "Robert Ludlum's" in the title.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Biochemical weapons in the hands of an unscrupulous enemy could produce unspeakable devastation. Some believe the only way to counter such an unbelievable threat is through a biochemical balance of power. And they will stop at nothing to build and test the world's most potent bio-arsenal. American intelligence officer Jonathan Smith must unravel and neutralize the plot to put America in the biochemical warfare driver's seat. George Guidall's fluid and seamless delivery guides listeners through each twist and turn. Despite his masterful manner and artful style, Guidall occasionally tries too hard to create individual identities for too many characters. Still, the overall combination of legendary author and skilled presenter leaves readers with a full measure of satisfaction. T.J.M. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine

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