Robert Ludlum Books In Order

Jason Bourne Books In Publication Order

  1. The Bourne Identity (1980)
  2. The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
  3. The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
  4. The Bourne Legacy (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2003)
  5. The Bourne Betrayal (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2007)
  6. The Bourne Sanction (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2008)
  7. The Bourne Deception (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2009)
  8. The Bourne Objective (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2010)
  9. The Bourne Dominion (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2011)
  10. The Bourne Imperative (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2012)
  11. The Bourne Retribution (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2013)
  12. The Bourne Ascendancy (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2014)
  13. The Bourne Enigma (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2016)
  14. The Bourne Initiative (By:Eric Van Lustbader) (2017)
  15. The Bourne Evolution (By:Brian Freeman) (2020)
  16. The Bourne Treachery (By:Brian Freeman) (2021)

Covert-One Books In Publication Order

  1. The Hades Factor (With: Gayle Lynds) (2000)
  2. The Cassandra Compact (With: Philip Shelby) (2001)
  3. The Paris Option (By:Gayle Lynds) (2002)
  4. The Altman Code (By:Gayle Lynds) (2003)
  5. The Lazarus Vendetta (By:Patrick Larkin) (2004)
  6. The Moscow Vector (By:Patrick Larkin) (2005)
  7. Robert Ludlum’s The Arctic Event (By:James H. Cobb) (2007)
  8. The Ares Decision (By:Kyle Mills) (2011)
  9. The Janus Reprisal (By:Jamie Freveletti) (2012)
  10. The Utopia Experiment (By:Kyle Mills) (2013)
  11. The Geneva Strategy (By:Jamie Freveletti) (2015)
  12. The Patriot Attack (By:Kyle Mills) (2016)

Matarese Dynasty Books In Publication Order

  1. The Matarese Circle (1979)
  2. The Matarese Countdown (1997)

Paul Janson Books In Publication Order

  1. The Janson Directive (2002)
  2. The Janson Command (By:Paul Garrison) (2012)
  3. The Janson Option (By:Paul Garrison) (2014)
  4. The Janson Equation (By:Douglas Corleone) (2015)

Road to Books In Publication Order

  1. The Road to Gandolfo (1975)
  2. The Road To Omaha (1992)

Treadstone Books In Publication Order

  1. The Treadstone Resurrection (By:Joshua Hood) (2020)
  2. The Treadstone Exile (By:Joshua Hood) (2021)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971)
  2. The Osterman Weekend (1972)
  3. The Matlock Paper (1973)
  4. Trevayne (As: Jonathan Ryder) (1973)
  5. The Rhinemann Exchange (1974)
  6. The Cry of the Halidon (As: Jonathan Ryder) (1974)
  7. The Gemini Contenders (1976)
  8. The Chancellor Manuscript (1977)
  9. The Holcroft Covenant (1978)
  10. The Parsifal Mosaic (1982)
  11. The Aquitaine Progression (1984)
  12. The Icarus Agenda (1988)
  13. The Scorpio Illusion (1993)
  14. The Apocalypse Watch (1995)
  15. The Prometheus Deception (2000)
  16. The Sigma Protocol (2001)
  17. The Tristan Betrayal (2003)
  18. The Bancroft Strategy (2004)
  19. The Ambler Warning (2005)

Jason Bourne Book Covers

Covert-One Book Covers

Matarese Dynasty Book Covers

Paul Janson Book Covers

Road to Book Covers

Treadstone Book Covers

Standalone Novels Book Covers

Robert Ludlum Books Overview

The Bourne Identity

Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium maybe code words. Initial: ‘J.B.’ And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspirators led by Carlos, the world’s most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him. ‘Mr. Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six pack of thriller writers combines.’ The New York Times

The Bourne Supremacy

In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne. The Chinese vice premier has been brutally slain by a legendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is the next to die? But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There is no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for David Webb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone else has taken the Bourne identity and unless he is stopped, the world will pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Once again, Webb must utilize his lethal skills because once again, like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn from his life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover an explosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey into the espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not be enough. This time Bourne must reign supreme. From the Paperback edition.

The Bourne Ultimatum

The world’s two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown. At a small town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped he would never have to do again assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap a trap from which only one of them will escape. From the Paperback edition.

The Bourne Legacy (By:Eric Van Lustbader)

In Robert Ludlum’s ground breaking career, no other character so captured and held the world’s imagination as Jason Bourne. He appeared in three of Robert Ludlum’s own 1 bestselling novels The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum and they remain amongst Ludlum’s most read and most loved books to this day. Now, for the first time ever, the Estate of Robert Ludlum has acceded to the demands of readers around the world, turning to bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader to bring Jason Bourne back to life in a thrilling new novel. Jason Bourne is known and feared in the deadly world of covert ops as one of the most highly skilled assassins for hire. Bourne, however, was merely an identity assumed by CIA agent David Webb, a personality implanted by the CIA to facilitate a dangerous operation, but one that threatened to subsume David Webb entirely. Years after the events of The Bourne Identity, Webb is no longer an active CIA agent and is now a professor of Eastern Studies at Georgetown University, living a quiet life, far from the dangers of his previous life. Until one day he finds himself the target of an assassin nearly as skilled as himself and is framed for the brutal murder of his two closest associates and friends. Fighting for his life against unseen assailants, as well as the full resources of the CIA who believe he has gone dangerously rogue, the Bourne identity asserts itself, leaving Jason Bourne in control. Now Bourne must use all his skills to stay alive as he battles against a determined assassin, the combined skills of the world’s intelligence networks, and a shadowy figure in the background, skillfully manipulating events and people, in a far deadlier and more dangerous game than any of them realize.

The Bourne Betrayal (By:Eric Van Lustbader)

Two months after Jason Bourne’s second wife has dies, he learns that Martin Lindros, his only friend in the CIA, went missing in Africa where he was tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium. After Bourne finds him, Martin returns to the U.S., but only after he persuades Bourne to go to Odessa to penetrate the clandestine world of terrorist money men there.

In Odessa, Bourne is hampered by confusing flashes of memories. He becomes convinced that they’re false, but who planted them and why? And how can he function if he can’t rely on his own memories? Eventually, Bourne figures out that the man he saved in Africa isn’t his friend but a double, a terrorist intent on sending Bourne off on a wild goose chase while he himself steals U.S. intelligence and uses the information to coordinate an attack against a major U.S. city using nuclear devices.

The double, continuing to pose as Martin Lindros, orders a world wide sanction against Bourne. Now, Bourne must fight off attempts on his life, track down uranium, and stop terrorists from launching an even more devastating attack against the U.S.

The Bourne Sanction (By:Eric Van Lustbader)

Jason Bourne returns to Georgetown University and the mild world of his alter ego, David Webb, hoping for normalcy. But after so many adrenaline soaked years of risking his life, Bourne finds himself chafing under the quiet life of a linguistics professor.

Aware of his frustrations, his academic mentor, Professor Specter, asks for help investigating the murder of a former student by a previously unknown Muslim extremist sect. The young man died carrying information about the group’s terrorist activities, including an immediate plan to attack the United States.

The organization, the Black Legion, and its lethal plot have also popped up on the radar of Central Intelligence, where new director Veronica Hart is struggling to assert her authority. Sensing an opportunity to take control of CI by showing Hart’s incompetence, National Security Agency operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could hunt down and kill Bourne.

In Europe, Bourne’s investigation into the Black Legion turns into one of the deadliest and most tangled operations of his double life the pursuit of the leader of a murderous terrorist group with roots in the darkest days of World War II all while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute…

The Bourne Deception (By:Eric Van Lustbader)

The Bourne Deception picks up where The Bourne Sanction left off. Jason Bourne’s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, and what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt by what seems to be an Iranian missile. A massive global investigative team is assembled to get at the truth of the situation before it can all escalate into an international scandal. Jason Bourne’s search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people or the group that brought down the airliner, which leads Bourne into one of the most deadly and challenging situations in his entire life. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis.

The Bourne Objective (By:Eric Van Lustbader)

Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne’s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he’s determined to find the ring’s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he’ll discover he committed when he digs into the past. The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin, who was also a graduate of the Central Intelligence training program Treadstone. A covert course designed to create ruthless assassins for C.I., it was shuttered by Congress for corruption. Yet before it was dismantled, it produced Bourne and Arkadin, giving them equal skills, equal force, and equal cunning. As Bourne’s destiny circles closer to Arkadin’s, it becomes clear that the eventual collision of these men is not of their own making. Someone else has been watching and manipulating them. Someone who wants to know, Who is the more deadly agent?

The Bourne Dominion (By:Eric Van Lustbader)

Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America’s most strategic natural resources. He needs the help of his long time friend, General Boris Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia’s most feared spy agency, FSB 2. Karpov is one of the most determined, honorable, and justice hungry men that Bourne knows. But Karpov has made a deal with the devil. In order to remain the head of FSB 2, he must hunt down and kill Bourne. Now, these two trusted friends are on a deadly collision course. From the Colombian highlands to Munich, Cadiz, and Damascus, the clock is counting down to a disaster that will cripple America’s economic and military future. Only Bourne and Karpov have a chance to avert the catastrophe but if they destroy each other first, that chance will be gone forever. THE BOURNE DOMINIONJason Bourne is one of the most compelling and best loved characters created by internationally bestselling novelist Robert Ludlum. The hero of eight novels, including The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, Bourne has also been featured in three blockbuster movies starring Matt Damon. Now, New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader presents a new story about the rogue secret agent who has lost his memory.

The Hades Factor (With: Gayle Lynds)

A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists is a U.S. government laboratory has been frantically trying to unlock the virus’s secrets. When the leading researcher from that lab, Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith, returns from overseas, he barely survives a series of well orchestrated attempts made on his life. By the time Smith eludes his pursuers and makes it home, he discovers that the virus has claimed its fourth victim, Dr. Sophia Russell Smith’s fiancee. Devastated and enraged, Smith quickly uncovers evidence that his lover’s death was no accident that someone out there has the virus, and the pandemic that threatens hundreds of millions of lives is no accident. But wherever he turns, Smith finds that some unseen force has blocked his quest for information. Not knowing whom to trust, Smith assembles a private team to search for the truth behind the deadly virus. While the death toll mounts, their quest leads to the highest levels of power and the darkest corners of the earth, as they match wits with a deterined genius and as the fate of the world lies in the balance.

The Cassandra Compact (With: Philip Shelby)

For thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been the acknowledged master of suspense and global intrigue. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in nearly every country around the world, his books have thrilled hundreds of millions of readers setting a standard that has never been equaled. Having once again raised the bar with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor, Ludlum returns with the latest novel in his Covert One series. Delivering all of the complex, compelling action and heartstopping suspense for which he has become so justly famous, Robert Ludlum’s latest is a novel that could only come from the imagination of one of America’s greatest storyteller:The Cassandra CompactYuri Danko, a deep cover Russian asset for Covert One, is on the run. His last communication was a cryptic and urgent plea for extraction. With no hint of what sudden danger Danko encountered or information he uncovered that could have driven him to such extreme action, Covert One operative Jon Smith is sent to the pre arranged meeting place with instructions to bring Danko out. Ten days later, in Venice, Danko arrives breathless and bedraggled at Jon Smith’s table at an outdoor caf in Venice. But he barely opens his mouth before his body is ripped apart by a spray of assassins’ bullets. Smith, eluding the hail of bullets, gives chase only to witness the assassins themselves falling prey to a brutal execution. With only the scant clues left behind by Danko to go on, Jon Smith and Covert One quickly conclude that someone is out to do the unthinkable attempt to steal Russia’s store of the smallpox virus. Now completely eradicated, smallpox is the deadliest of viruses and could well cause an epidemic of undreamed of scale should it be released in the general population. Smith and his Covert One colleagues must prevent the virus from being stolen. But their unseen adversaries are several steps ahead of them and the virus is en route to the United States. Now they must unravel the complex scheme, overcome their powerful and invisible opponents, and recover or destroy the virus before the power of total Armageddon rests comfortably in the arms of a madman. AUTHORBIO: Robert Ludlum is the internationally bestselling author of twenty four novels published in thirty two languages and forty countries. Read by hundreds of millions world wide, his books include The Prometheus Deception, The Bourne Identity, The Icarus Agenda, and The Chancellor Manuscript. He divides his time between Florida and Montana. Philip Shelby is a screenwriter and novelist whose numerous books include the bestselling novels Days of Drums, Last Rites, and The Gatekeeper. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

The Paris Option (By:Gayle Lynds)

For 30 years, Robert Ludlum’s novels have set the standard for the finest in international intrigue and suspense. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in almost every country in the world, Robert Ludlum’s books have been enjoyed by hundreds of millions of readers, and are widely acknowledged as classics in the field. Now, after the bestselling Covert One novels The Hades Factor and The Cassandra Compact comes the third thrilling novel in the series The Paris Option.A fiery explosion in the dark of night shatters one of the laboratory buildings in Paris’s esteemed Pasteur Institute. Among the dead is Emile Chambord, one of the leaders in the global race to create a molecular or DNA computer. Unfortunately, Professor Chambord kept the details of his work secret, and his notes were apparently destroyed in either the bomb blast or the raging fire that followed. The scientific community does not expect a workable DNA computer to be developed for years. But suddenly U.S. fighter jets disappear from radar screens for a full five minutes, and there’s no explanation. Utilities across the Western states cease functioning, and all telecommunications abruptly stop, with devastating consequences. This is not the work of a clever hacker, although Washington, worried about a panic, assures the public it is. Only the enormous power and speed of a DNA computer could have caused such havoc. Under the cover of visiting his friend Marty Zellerbach, who was severely injured when the Pasteur lab was destroyed, Covert One agent Jon Smith flies to Paris to search for the connection between the Pasteur explosion and the forces now wielding the computer. Following a trail that leads him across two continents, Smith uncovers a web of deception that threatens to wreck havoc and forever reshape the world.

The Altman Code (By:Gayle Lynds)

Robert Ludlum’s exciting books of international suspense are enjoyed by millions of readers around the world while critics hail them as classics. Now comes the fourth volume in the bestselling Covert One series Robert Ludlum’s The Altman Code. On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when he’s brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later, on the dangerous high seas, the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese cargo ship rumored to carry tons of chemicals for Saddam Hussein to create new biological weapons. The President cannot let the ship reach Iraq. At the same time, he doesn’t want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. Fighting to keep the agreement on track, the President orders Fred Klein, head of Covert One, to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Under cover of a medical conference, operative Col. Jon Smith is sent to Taiwan to rendezvous with another agent who has acquired the ship’s true manifest. But the second agent is murdered, the proof is destroyed, and Smith is left only with a verbal message the President’s biological father is still alive, held prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. Racing against the clock, Smith uncovers the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party and reveals a terrifying international cabal whose diabolical plan thrusts the world to the very brink of war.

The Lazarus Vendetta (By:Patrick Larkin)

The thrilling new novel in the bestselling Covert One series. The previous Covert One audiobook, Robert Ludlum’s The Altman Code, spent three months on the Publishers Weekly Audio Bestseller listIn the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, the once grassroots anti globalization movement has been slowly absorbed and taken over by the underground radical anti technology group fronted by the mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed, the intelligence agents involved have all disappeared without a trace. Now a sudden surge in the deep chatter detected by U.S. intelligence leads everyone to believe one thing Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. With Lazarus bringing deadly pressure to bear against the leading research facilities focusing on nano technology, Lt. Col. Jon Smith publicly a researcher for USAMRIID is activated by Covert One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. With his friend and cohort CIA agent Randi Russell missing in the field, and with the help of former MI6 agent Peter Howell and computer whiz Marty Zellerbach, Jon Smith must find and uncover the truth about Lazarus where all others have failed. For unbeknownst to the world at large, the Lazarus Movement is only the tip of the iceberg in a scheme that will risk the lives of billions and forever change the world itself.

The Moscow Vector (By:Patrick Larkin)

The latest in the series of novels featuring Covert-One, created by Robert Ludlum. Rising from the wreckage of the former Soviet Union, a ruthless financier from one of the former client states has remade himself publicly as one of the great figures on the world’s financial stage. But mere wealth is not enough — is it ever?

At an international medical conference in Prague, Dr. Fiona Devin – an American scientist attached to the Department of Defense – is contacted by one of her Russian colleagues. Dr. Valentin Petrenko, a specialist in rare diseases, is concerned about a small cluster of deaths in Moscow but even more concerned by the Russian government’s refusal to release publicly any information or data on the outbreak. Meeting with Devin to pass on his case notes and samples, the two are attached, Petrenko killed while Devin barely escapes with the notes and medical samples. Lt. Col. Jon Smith, in his role as a Covert-One operative, is dispatched to Prague to get Devin and her information safely back to the U.S. As Devin begins to analyze the information, a series of highly placed figures in the U.S. government being getting ill, coming down with a mysterious illness that bears a close resemblence to the disease described in Petrenko’s notes. The disease is the perfect assassination tool – a bioweapon that, using each target’s DNA, is undetectable, unstoppable, and incurable. And it is soon clear that someone is targeting the U.S. government, working to destablize it from within. With few clues and precious little time, Covert-One and Jon Smith must find and defeat the mysterious figure who stands at the center of this nefarious plot.

Robert Ludlum’s The Arctic Event (By:James H. Cobb)

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious World War II era aircraft, a discovery that forces the Russian Federation into a shocking admission. The unmarked plane is a Soviet strategic bomber that disappeared with its crew more than fifty years ago while carrying two metric tons of weaponized anthrax.

Desperate to prevent a political and diplomatic firestorm, the U.S. president dispatches a Covert One team led by Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith to the crash site. But others have reached the frigid, windswept island first, including an international arms dealer and his crew of vicious mercenaries. As for the Russians, they are lying: a second, even deadlier, secret rests within the hulk of the lost bomber, a secret the Russians are willing to kill to protect. Trapped in a polar wilderness, Smith and his team find themselves fighting a savage war on two fronts against an enemy they can see and another hiding within their own ranks.

The Ares Decision (By:Kyle Mills)

With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group Covert One. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out. In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries. Covert One’s top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it’s different. The parasite had been purposely kept alive and crudely transmitted in acts of terrorism. Now the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to obtain this biological weapon to unleash it on the West. Smith and his team are ambushed and cut off from all outside support just as they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play forces that can be traced to Washington itself.

The Matarese Circle

In this gripping bestseller, Robert Ludlum spins a web of suspense and high stakes intrigue as two men who are sworn mortal enemies must cooperate in order to foil a sinister plot to topple the world’s governments. From opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, these two hard bitten professionals are the best at what they do. And they do whatever is necessary. The Matarese Circle a shadowy grouping of the most ruthless terrorists in history. They have been responsible for countless assassinations and massacres throughout the twentieth century, but none as horrifying as their plan to throw the superpowers into chaos before making their boldest move…
Now in a newly recorded four cassette edition from BDD Audio, this chilling tale of espionage and treachery is Ludlum at his best. Stephen Lang’s film credits include Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tombstone, Gettysburg and Shadow Conspiracy. On Broadway, he starred in Hamlet, A Few Good Men, The Speed of Darkness and Death of a Salesman. He can be heard on other BDD Audio productions including Siberian Light, Meg, Fat Tuesday, and Robert Ludlum’s Matarese Countdown.

The Matarese Countdown

The Matarese Circle, Robert Ludlum’s bestselling spellbinder, introduced a treacherous international cabal of powerbrokers and their hired assassins. Now the unsurpassed master of suspense returns with a stunning thriller for the twenty first century…
and like a phoenix from the ashes, the terror has returned with…
The Matarese Countdown. Secret deals are in the making, massive mysterious transactions steeped in corruption and murder. The players stand at the highest pinnacles of global finance and government. It is an unprecedented consolidation of money, power, and ruthlessness. Their ultimate aim: worldwide economic domination and all it entails…
by whatever means necessary. The Matarese dynasty is back in all its glory and evil. And the one man with enough knowledge to stop it, CIA case officer Cameron Pryce, may not have enough time. The Matarese Countdown has begun and Pryce’s only chance to cut it off is to follow the trail of blood money and stone cold killers to the heart of this deadliest conspiracy. The Matarese Countdown is Robert Ludlum at his best, as he delivers a terrifying and persuasive vision of worldwide financial mastery that could only happen today. Stephen Lang’s film credits include Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tombstone, Gettysburg and Shadow Conspiracy. On Broadway, he starred in Hamlet, A Few Good Men, The Speed of Darkness and Death of a Salesman. He can be heard on other BDD Audio productions including Meg, Fat Tuesday, Siberian Light, and Robert Ludlum’s The Matarese Circle.

The Janson Directive

One of the world’s greatest men has been kidnapped. Nobel laureate, international financier, and philanthropist Peter Novak a billionaire who has committed his life and fortune to fostering democracy around the world through his Liberty Foundation has been captured by the forces led by the near mythical terrorist known as The Caliph. Holding Novak in a near impenetrable fortress, The Caliph has refused to negotiate for his release, planning instead to brutally execute Novak in a matter of days. Running out of time and hope, Novak’s people turn to a man with a long history of defeating impossible odds: Paul Janson. For decades, Janson was an operative and assassin whose skills and exploits made him a legend in the notorious U.S. covert agency Consular Operatations. No longer able to live with the brutality, bloodshed, and personal loss that marked his career, Janson has retired from the field and nothing could lure him back. Nothing except Peter Novak, a man who once saved Janson’s life when everyone else was powerless to help. With the considerable resources of The Liberty Foundation at his disposal, Janson hastily assembles a crack extraction team, setting in motion an ingenious rescue operation. But the operation goes horribly wrong and Janson is marked for death, the target of a ‘beyond salvage’ order issued from the highest level of the government. Now he is running for his life, pursued by Jessica Kincaid, a young agent of astonishing ability who as a student of Janson’s own lethal arsenal of tactics and techniques can anticipate and counter his every move. To survive, Janson must outrace a conspiracy that has gone beyond the control of its originators. To win, he must counter it with a conspiracy of his own. With mere days, perhaps only hours, remaining, and shadowed by a secret that links Janson’s violent life with that of the visionary peacemaker Peter Novak, Janson’s only hope is to uncover the nearly unimaginable truth behind these events a truth that has the power to foment wars, topple governments, and change the very course of history.

The Janson Command (By:Paul Garrison)

Paul Janson, a character first featured in Robert Ludlum’s bestselling novel The Janson Directive, has a new goal: save the world, one operative, one mission, one redemption at a time. Reformed from his days of covert operations, Paul Janson has set a new mission for himself. Working in partnership with champion sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he rehabilitates disenchanted agents and helps them create new lives outside of the violent intelligence sector. These former operatives then form a network of support for Janson when it comes to his other job Janson also takes on independent assignments. For a fee, he’ll use his skills to resolve international crises. But only those actions that he believes contribute to the greater good of all. Whether he’s rescuing an American doctor from Somalian pirates, attacking militant thugs intent on murdering a West African public servant agitating for human rights, or hunting the money lenders who capitalize on barbaric civil war, Janson stays honest with three simple rules: 1 No torture. 2 No civilian casualties. 3 No killing anyone who doesn’t try to kill them. Yet with his commitment to doing what is right while facing canny intelligence operatives, ruthless warlords, deep sea marauders, or brutal dictators Janson finds that his most difficult task is figuring out if he’s fighting for the good side.

The Road to Gandolfo

In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines the explosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy with a bitingly witty send up of everything from government bureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, and organized religion. War hero and infamous ladies man, General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story had even been sold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historic monument in China’s Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking, with a case against him pending in Washington, it looks like the end of Mac s illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own and it includes kidnapping the Pope. What s the ransom? Just one American dollar for every Catholic in the world. Add to the mix a slew of shady investors, Hawkins s four persuasive, well endowed ex wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier who wants nothing more than to return to private life and you ve got one relentlessly irreverent page turner. From the Paperback edition.

The Road To Omaha

‘A very funny book…
no character is minor: they’re all hilarious.’ Houston Chronicle. In The Road To Gandolfo, Robert Ludlum introduced us to the outrageous General MacKenzie Hawkins and his legal wizard, Sam Devereaux, whose plot to kidnap the Pope spun wildly out of control into sheer hilarity. Now Ludlum’s two wayward heroes return with a diabolical scheme to right a very old wrong and wreak vengeance on the expletive deleted who drummed the hawk out of the military. Their outraged opposition will be no less than the White House. Byzantine Treachery. Discovering a long buried 1878 treaty with an obscure Indian tribe, the hawk a.k.a. Chief Thunder Head hatches a brilliant plot that will ultimately bring him and his reluctant lawyer Sam before the Supreme Court. Their goal: to reclaim a choice piece of American real estate the state of Nebraska. Which just happened to the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Air Command! Will they succeed against the powers that be? Will the Wopotami tribe ever have their day in the Supreme Court? From the Oval Office to the Pentagon, all the president’s men are outfitted, until it rests with CIA Director Vincent ‘Vinnie the Bam Bam’ Mangecavallo to cut Sam and Hawk off at the pass. And only one thing is certain: Robert Ludlum will keep us in nonstop suspense and side splitting laughter through the very last page.

The Osterman Weekend

In Zurich…
in Moscow…
in Washington. The machinery was already set in motion, while in a quiet suburb an odd assortment of men and women gathered for a momentous weekend. At stake was the very existence of the United States of America…
and the future of the entire free world. From the Paperback edition.

The Matlock Paper

The name on the computer screen is James Barbous Matlock. Vietnam veteran. College professor. He’s Washington’s choice to stop a far reaching conspiracy, an undercover assignment destined to put Matlock’s neck against the razor’s edge of danger. And the faceless men in Washington don’t care if it means savaging the women Matlock loves, or trapping Matlock in a maze of unrelenting terror. They care about just one thing: that Matlock is the perfect man for the job…
for a reason that is disturbing, violent, and extremely deadly. From the Paperback edition.

Trevayne (As: Jonathan Ryder)

Brilliant, fearless, incorruptible, Andrew Trevayne was a self made millionaire at thirty five, former Undersecretary of State, current head of one of the nation’s most prestigious foundations. Now, at the express wish of the president, Trevayne undertakes an investigation into the ‘secret government’ and is swept up in a tidal wave of intrigue and danger beyond the corridors of official power…
into a nightmare maze where Mafia leaders and billionaires mingle…
where Congress and even the presidency itself can be bought and sold. Here, in this sizzling world of mystery, seduction, and betrayal…
where his family’s survival and his own hinge on a hair trigger…
where sinister forces are poised to exact a chilling conspiracy…
here, a man like Trevayne can become a dreaded enemy, a duped pawn or a king.

The Rhinemann Exchange

Autumn 1943. Global espionage elite converge on Buenos Aires. Intense, high level covert negotiations will soon bear dangerous fruit with the aid of expatriate German industrialist Erich Rhinemann. American agent David Spaulding will be there. His top secret mission can bring the war to an explosive end. But what happens here in this city of assassins, double crosses, and erotic encounters is to be the most sinister and terrifying deal ever made between two nations at war. Quickly, the game changes, truths darken, hidden secrets emerge. And suddenly Spaulding is the man in between, the man furiously struggling for his sanity, the woman he loves, and his very life…
the only man who can save the world from the horrible truth of The Rhinemann Exchange.

The Cry of the Halidon (As: Jonathan Ryder)

Alex McAuliff has received an offer he can’t refuse: two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica’s dark interior. All Dunstone, Limited, requires is his time, his expertise, and his absolute secrecy. No one not even McAuliff’s handpicked team can know of Dunstone’s involvement. But British Intelligence is aware of the deal and they’ve let Alex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without a trace. Now it’s too late to turn back. Alex already knows about Dunstone…
which means he knows too much. From the moment he lands in Jamaica, Alex is a marked man. But who wants him dead? Dunstone? A rival company? Or British Intelligence? Here in anisland paradise where even a beautiful woman might be a spy, every move could be his last, and his only clue to survival is a single mysterious word: Halidon.

The Gemini Contenders

Dead of night. Salonika, Greece, December 1939. A clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. Its sinister contents, concealed fro centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Na*zi threat marches inexorably closer, good men and evil will be drawn into a violent and deadly hunt, sparking a relentless struggle that could forever change the world as we know it.

The Chancellor Manuscript

DID J. EDGAR DIE A NATURAL DEATH?…
OR WAS HE MURDERED?Inver Brass a group of high minded and high placed intellectuals who see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover’s unethical use of his scandal ridden private files. They decide to do away with him quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until best selling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his precious books like harmless fairy tales. Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course, spiraling across the globe in an ever widening arc of violence and terror. Hurtling toward a showdown that will rip Washington’s intelligence community apart leaving only one damning document to survive…

The Holcroft Covenant

The Fourth Reich is waiting to be born. The only man who can stop it is about to sign its birth certificate. In 1945 the children of the Third Reich were secretly hidden all over the world to be concealed until the 1970’s, when they would come of age. Then the most elaborate plans and $780 million in a Swiss bank would be waiting. There would even be an unsuspecting outsider to set the plan into action. that outsider is Noel Holcroft, the American son of a high ranking Na*zi. He’s just been shown an amazing document, The Holcroft Covenant. If he signs, it will be his own death warrant and a devastating threat to the security of the world. From the Paperback edition.

The Parsifal Mosaic

Michael Havelock’s world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top level mole with the world in his fist Parsifal.

The Aquitaine Progression

It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn’t seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: ‘THE GENERALS…
THEY’RE BACK…
AQUITAINE!’ Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world’s most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought he’d long left behind. One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to the hear of every major government a network of coordinated global violence that no one believes possible. No one but Converse and the woman he once loved and lost. The only two people on earth who can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine. From the Paperback edition.

The Icarus Agenda

Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick’s deepest secret…
that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists he outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who once saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood, where frightened whispers speak of violence yet to come and where Kendrick’s life and the fate of the free world may ultimately rest in the powerful hands of a mysterious and deadly figure known only as the Mahdi. From the Paperback edition.

The Scorpio Illusion

Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. An accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, she has set in motion the boldest act of terrorism yet conceived.

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer one of the best until the rainswept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim of the games spies play. Since then he’s been sailing charters in the islands. Now he’s called out of retirement for one last assignment. For Hawthorne is the only man alive who can track down the world’s most dangerous terrorist.

Now, with his life and the life of the President hanging in the balance, Hawthorne must follow Amanya’s serpentine trail, a path of seduction, betrayal, an instant death.

Racing from a millionaire recluse’s fortress to the social whirl of Palm Beach and from the Oval Office to treacherous Caribbean waters, Hawthorne will uncover a sinister network of well placed men and women who exist to help this consummate killer and the shattering truth behind the Scorpio Illusion.

The Apocalypse Watch

Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remote hideaway the fortress like nerve center of an ominous movement, the Brotherhood of the
Watch. American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the movement, a neo Na*zi organization that was born in the days after the Third Reich’s defeat and whose deadly tentacles have spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, Harry
Latham has disappeared.

Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother’s fate. But when he receives the sudden good news
that Harry has surfaced, gut twisting doubts arise. Has Harry’s cover been blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let him live?

For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: the secret supporters of the movement, among them some of the highest ranking officials in the United
States and its allies, names synonymous with honorable service to their nations. It is a document that could topple governments but is the list
legitimate? Can Drew Latham trust his own brother?

To find the answer, Drew Latham decides to take on his brother’s identity, stepping directly into the crossfire between the assassins gunning for Harry
Latham and those who want Drew himself dead.

From a hushed Alpine valley to the backstreets of Paris, from the ruling chambers of Washington and London to the casinos of Monte Carlo, The
Apocalypse Watch
is vintage Robert Ludlum, a superb international thriller from the writer who created the standard for a new kind of entertainment.

The Prometheus Deception

Robert Ludlum is the acknowledged master of suspense and international intrigue. For the past twenty five years he has had an unbroken string of bestselling novels, selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and setting a standard that has yet to be surpassed. With The Prometheus Deception, Ludlum’s first new novel in three years, he is at the very pinnacle of his craft. Nicholas Bryson was a deep cover operative for a secret American intelligence group called the Directorate. After a mission went wrong he was retired to a new identity as a college professor in Pennsylvania. Now, years later, he discovers that the Directorate was using him against his own country’s interests. The deputy director of the CIA enlists Bryson to stop the Directorate’s latest lethal maneuver and end the group for good. But it’s been years since Bryson has been in the field his skills are rusty, his contacts unreliable, and he doesn’t know whom, if anyone, can be trusted. Complicating matters is his wife, the woman who disappeared by her own design just before the fatal mission that ended Bryson’s first career. The truth behind the relationship indeed, many truths are about to be learned the hard way. AUTHORBIO: Robert Ludlum is the author of twenty one bestselling novels published in thirty two languages and forty countries. Read and heard by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, his books include The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Rhinemann Exchange, The Aquitaine Progression, The Icarus Agenda, and The Bourne Identity. He lives in Florida.

The Sigma Protocol

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.

The Tristan Betrayal

Moscow a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen Metcalf has been summoned to find the one man who controls the levers of power in absolute secrecy an official known only as the Dirizhor. His support of the bloody coup will bring the entire world to the brink of nuclear war. Metcalfe is the only man with the cunning to reach him and to convince him to resist. It’s up to Metcalf to change the course of history. He’s done it before.

For Metcalf, returning to Russia is also a personal mission that will stretch across three continents and fifty years into his past where the loyalties of a former love a woman both impossibly beautiful and possibly treacherous were tested; where the shadow of a Na*zi assassin still haunts; a debauched German aristocrat manipulated the destiny of everyone he touched. Now, as past and present converge, Metcalf braces himself for a new trial of trust and betrayal, one with chilling implications that could threaten what remains of the free world.

The Bancroft Strategy

In the tradition of such Ludlum classics as The Chancellor Manuscript and The Icarus Agenda, The Bancroft Strategy is a compelling novel of intrigue, where two figures find themselves facing a shadowy organization working to twist global politics to their own unsavory ends.
When Todd Belknap a legendary field agent for Consular Operations with a reputation as something of a cowboy is cut loose from the agency after an operation goes wrong, his best friend and fellow agent is abducted in Lebanon by a militia group with a vicious reputation. When the government refuses to either rescue him or negotiate for his release, Belknap decides to take matters into his own hands.
Meanwhile, hedge fund analyst Andrea Bancroft gets a surprising call she is to receive an unexpected bequest of six million dollars from a cousin she never met. With one condition she must agree to sit on the board of the Bancroft family foundation, a charitable organization that is run by the family patriarch, Paul Newton. Having never been involved with, or even met, the family her mother was briefly married to an Bancroft and cut off all contact many years ago Andrea is intrigued. But the foundation, which is dedicated to doing strategic good deeds, appears less and less benign the more deeply involved she gets. What exactly is their involvement with the ‘Genesis’ a mysterious group working to destabilize the geopolitical balance at the risk of millions of lives? As events escalate, Todd Belknap and Andrea Bancroft come together and must form an uneasy alliance if they are to uncover the truth behind ‘Genesis’ before it is too late.

The Ambler Warning

‘Welcome to Robert Ludlum’s world…
fast pacing, tight plotting, international intrigue.’ Cleveland Plain DealerOn Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little known and never visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there’s one difference between Hal and the other patients Hal isn’t crazy. With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Hal manages to first clear his mind of the drug induced haze and then pulls off a daring escape. Free, he’s out to discover who stashed him there and why but the world he returns to isn’t the one he remembers. Friends and longtime associates don’t remember him, there are no official records of Hal Ambler, and when he first sees himself in the mirror, the face that looks back at him is not the one he knows as his own.

Related Authors

Leave a Comment