Trevayne / The Cry of the Halidon / The Rhinemann Exchange
by Robert Ludlum
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Three all-action adventures from the master storyteller. TREVAYNE - He was untouchable . . . or so he hoped. Andrew Trevayne was a millionaire by the time he was thirty. He went into government, carving out a brilliant career. Then, at a call from the president, he initiates a probe into the clandestine world of secret government. It's a nightmare maze where money men and mafia leaders mix, a world where even the Presidency can be bought and sold. And where a man like Trevayne could be a show more dreaded enemy, a duped victim, or maybe, just maybe, a king. THE CRY OF THE HALIDON - Alex McAuliff has received an offer he can't refuse - but if he accepts, it could be the last thing he does. He's been given two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica's dark interior. But British Intelligence contact Alex to let him in on a secret: the last survey team despatched to Jamaica vanished without trace. From the moment he lands in Jamaica he is a marked man. But who wants him dead? In an island paradise where even a beautiful woman could be a spy, Alex's only clue to survival is a single, mysterious word: Halidon... THE RHINEMANN EXCHANGE - Expert, deadly and ruthlessly efficient, David Spaulding is the most feared and resourceful Allied agent in wartime Europe. He is also high on the Gestapo's 'most wanted' list. Now Spaulding has been selected by Allied Command to handle an undercover deal involving Nazi scientific plans. The dealer is Erich Rhinemann, an exiled German Jew awaiting the end of the war in an impenetrable retreat near Buenos Aires. But there's something Spaulding doesn't know. The other side of the deal. And it involves the most bizarre, horrific intrigue of the Second World War. show lessTags
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Three early novels by the famed late thriller writier, in which one can trace the development of his formula. The first two novels are worthwhile only to fanatical Ludlum readers, in my view, as they lack the narrative pace he later developed. The Rhinemann exchange, by contrast, is one of the best novels I've read by Ludlum; the positive qualities of narrative pace and plenty of incident are enhanced by the world war 2 setting which gives it an interesting atmosphere.
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Robert Ludlum was born May 25, 1927 in New York City. He enlisted in the Marines at the age of eighteen and received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1951. He began acting professionally at the age of sixteen in the 1943 Broadway production of Junior Miss. He also had roles in summer stock and appeared in over 200 television dramas for such live show more programs as Studio One and Kraft Television Theater. He then tried producing with the 1956 Broadway production of The Owl and the Pussycat. He took the play, four years later, to his creation of Shopping-Center Theater at Playhouse-on-the-Mall in Paramus, New Jersey. His first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, was published in 1971. His other works include The Matlock Paper, The Chancellor Manuscript, The Bourne Identity, The Scorpio Illusion, The Matarese Countdown, and The Bancroft Strategy. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. He died on March 12, 2001 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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