The Holcroft Covenant - A Novel

Zusatztext Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Holcroft Covenant   “Pleases and seduces . . . [Robert] Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined. . . . I sprained my wrist turning his pages and didn’t notice until an hour later.” —John Leonard! The New York Times   “Don’t ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.” — Chicago Tribune Informationen zum Autor Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-one novels, each a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. In addition to the Jason Bourne series— The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum —he was the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and The Apocalypse Watch, among many others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March 2001. Klappentext The Fourth Reich is waiting to arise-and 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 they came of age in the 1970s! at which point $780 million would be waiting in a Swiss bank. But all of these elaborate plans need an unsuspecting outsider to set them in motion: Noel Holcroft! the American son of a high-ranking Nazi officer. He has just been shown an incredible document known as the Holcroft Covenant. If he signs! he will inadvertently deal a serious blow to an already fragile world-and authorize his own death warrant. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Holcroft Covenant "Pleases and seduces . . . [Robert] Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined. . . . I sprained my wrist turning his pages and didn't notice until an hour later."-John Leonard! The New York Times "Don't ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day."-Chicago Tribune JANUARY 197—   “Attention! Le train de sept heures à destination de Zurich partira du quai numéro douze.”   The tall American in the dark-blue raincoat glanced up at the cavernous dome of the Geneva railway station, trying to locate the hidden speakers. The expression on his sharp, angular face was quizzical; the announcement was in French, a language he spoke but little and understood less. Nevertheless, he was able to distinguish the word Zurich; it was his signal. He brushed aside the light-brown hair that fell with irritating regularity over his forehead and started for the north end of the station.   The crowds were heavy. Bodies rushed past the American in all directions, hurrying to the gates to begin their journeys to scores of different destinations. None seemed to pay attention to the harsh announcements that echoed throughout the upper chambers in a continuous metallic monotone. The travelers in Geneva’s Bahnhof knew where they were going. It was the end of the week; the new mountain snows had fallen and the air outside was crisp and chilling. There were places to go, schedules to keep, and people to see; time wasted was time stolen. Everyone hurried.   The American hurried, too, for he also had a schedule to keep and a person to see. He had learned before the announcement that the train for Zurich would leave from track twelve. According to the plan, he was to walk down the ramp to the platform, count seven cars from the rear, and board at the first entrance. Inside, he was to count again, this time five compartments, and knock twice on the fifth door. If everything was in order, he would be admitted by a director of La Grande Banque de Genève, signifying the culmination of twelve weeks of preparations. Preparations that included purposely obscured cablegrams, transatlantic calls ma...

Product details

• Authors: Robert Ludlum
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2014
• EAN: 9780345539168
• ISBN: 978-0-345-53916-8
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 188 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature