The Apocalypse Watch

Zusatztext Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Apocalypse Watch   “A powerful! exploding novel . . . vintage Ludlum in fine form.” — Booklist   “If a Pulitzer Prize were awarded for escapist fiction! Robert Ludlum undoubtedly would have won it. Ten times over.” — Mobile Register   “Bloody great fun.” — Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Robert Ludlum Klappentext American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the fortresslike mountain hideaway of the Brotherhood of the Watch! a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the fall of the Third Reich. But on the eve of his most spectacular success! after three years in deep cover! Harry disappears. Drew Latham! Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris! is frantic to discover his older brother's fate. But when Drew receives the good news that Harry has surfaced! gut-twisting doubts arise. For Harry has emerged with an explosive document: a list of secret supporters of the Brotherhood! among them high-ranking officials of the United States and its allies. But is it legitimate? The search for the truth about Harry and the growing Nazi threat will plunge Drew into a labyrinth of deceit and death. And whoever makes it out alive will hold the fate of the free world in his hands. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Apocalypse Watch "A powerful! exploding novel . . . vintage Ludlum in fine form."-Booklist "If a Pulitzer Prize were awarded for escapist fiction! Robert Ludlum undoubtedly would have won it. Ten times over."-Mobile Register "Bloody great fun."-Kirkus Reviews Thirty-two months of grueling serpentine work were about to bear fruit, thought Latham.  Nearly three years of building a life, a life that was not his, were about to come to an end.  The incessant, maddening, exhausting travels throughout Europe and the Middle East, synchronized down to hours, even minutes, so he'd be at a specific place at a given time, where others could swear on their lives that they had seen him.  And the scum of the world he had dealt with--arms merchants without conscience, whose extraordinary profits were measured by supertankers of blood; drug lords, killing and crippling generations of children everywhere; compromised politicians, even statesmen, who bent and thwarted laws for the benefit of the manipulators--it was all finished.  There would be no more frenzied funneling of gargantuan sums of money through laundered Swiss accounts, secret numbers, pectrograph signatures, all part of the deadly games of international terrorism.  Harry Latham's personal nightmare, as vital as it was, was over. "We are here, Herr Lassiter," said Latham's German companion as the mountain vehicle pulled up to a barrack door under the roped green screening high above. "It is much warmer now, much more pleasant, nicht wahr?" "It certainly is," answered the deep-cover intelligence officer, sitting down from the rear seat.  "I'm actually sweating under these clothes." "We'll take the outerwear off inside and have yours dried for return." "I'd appreciate it.  I must be back in Munich by tonight." "Yes, we understand.  Come, the Kommandant."   As the two approached the heavy black wooden door with the scarlet swastika emblazoned in the center, there was a whooshing sound in the air.  Above, through the translucent green screening, the large wings of a glider swooped in descending circles into the valley. "Another wonder, Herr Lassiter? It is released from its mother aircraft at an altitude of roughly thirteen hundred feet.   Naturlich, the pilot must be extremely well trained, for the winds are dangerous, so unpredictable. It is used only in emergencies." "I can see how it comes down.  How does it get up?" "The same winds, mein Herr, with the assistance ...

Product details

• Authors: Robert Ludlum
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.11.2014
• EAN: 9780345539205
• ISBN: 978-0-345-53920-5
• No. of pages: 736
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 190 mm x 41 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature