The Ambler Warning (2005)

by Robert Ludlum

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Much better than the James Patterson audio I had just finished. This was about an agent who was jailed and drugged with his identity destroyed. He gets out through the help of a guard. His story begins there. Good for the car ride. For the Ludlum fans, good to read, I imagine. (

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LivelyLady | Feb 27, 2013 |

Despite the writing style and Ludlum's routine, his factual sheet of the-behind-the-scene global security industries is tremendous; quite well-researched. (

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ariefw | Jul 9, 2011 |

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rustyoldboat | May 28, 2011 |

From the Ludlum Franchise. Writing is not up to Ludlum style. The story is OK but nothing new or different. Very Bourne-ish in plot. (

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jwcooper3 | Nov 15, 2009 |

Good, Ludlum does it again. Hal Ambler, an agent comes out of an institution & tries to find his past which the Agency has totally erased. Intriguing. (

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Kalvas, Reijo	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312990693, Mass Market Paperback)

On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state--and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there's one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients--Ambler isn't crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out who put him there, and uncover the truth of who he was…and why someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead.

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On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states 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 clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then pulls off a daring escape. Now he's out to discover who stashed him here 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.--Publisher's description.… (more)

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