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Robert Ludlum was an American author. He wrote the Bourne series, including The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum. His thrillers have sold hundreds of millions of copies.

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The Road to Omaha by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Road to Omaha, the hilarious sequel to The Road to Gandolfo, General MacKenzie Hawkins, the wild and wacky “Hawk,” is back with another crazy plan.

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The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Identity (2002), directed by Doug Liman, follows a man pulled from the sea with no name. Matt Damon plays Jason Bourne with sharp eyes and quick moves. He wakes on a boat. Two bullets sit in his back.

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The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Icarus Agenda, a heart-pounding political thriller, Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick goes undercover in Oman to infiltrate a terrorist hideout and rescue American hostages during a chaotic 1980s Middle East crisis.

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The Aquitaine Progression by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Aquitaine Progression, a massive Cold War thriller, international lawyer Joel Converse gets entangled in a deadly conspiracy when a mysterious figure in Geneva drops a bombshell: a secret military cabal called the Aquitaine is plotting to take over the world.

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The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Parsifal Mosaic, a heart-pounding Cold War thriller, intelligence officer Michael Havelock’s world crumbles on a moonlit Costa Brava beach.

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The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ultimatum, the epic conclusion to the original Bourne trilogy, Jason Bourne faces his toughest challenge yet.

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The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Supremacy, the thrilling sequel to The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne, now living peacefully with Marie St. Jacques in Maine, is dragged back into a dangerous game when a mysterious impostor using his name causes chaos in Asia.

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The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity, a heart-pounding spy thriller, a man is pulled from the Mediterranean Sea with no memory, bullet wounds, and a microfilm in his hip pointing to a Swiss bank account.

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The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Matarese Circle, a thrilling Cold War mystery, two top-secret spies, American Brandon Scofield and Soviet Vasili Taleniekov, bitter rivals with a shared past, must team up to stop a mysterious global plot.

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The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling novel, The Holcroft Covenant, set in the late 1970s, a New York architect named Noel Holcroft stumbles upon a shocking secret. He’s the heir to a massive fortune linked to a clandestine agreement made by his Nazi officer father and two others during World War II.

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The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Chancellor Manuscript, a heart-pounding conspiracy thriller, novelist Peter Chancellor, mourning the loss of his family, uncovers a terrifying rumor: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s death was no accident...

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The Gemini Contenders by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s epic World War II thriller, The Gemini Contenders, a secret vault filled with ancient documents that could shake the very core of Christianity is smuggled out of a Greek monastery in 1939.

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The Road to Gandolfo by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s hilarious satirical thriller, The Road to Gandolfo, written under the pseudonym Michael Shepherd, U.S. Army General MacKenzie Hawkins, a decorated but disgraced war hero, comes up with a crazy plan to kidnap Pope Francesco I and demand a billion dollars for his release.

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The Rhinemann Exchange by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling World War II espionage novel, The Rhinemann Exchange, U.S. intelligence officer David Spaulding embarks on a secret mission in 1943 Buenos Aires.

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The Cry of the Halidon by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling conspiracy novel, The Cry of the Halidon, geologist Alex McAuliff is hired by a mysterious corporation to lead a survey in Jamaica’s dangerous Cockpit region.

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Trevayne by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling political thriller, Trevayne, Andrew Trevayne, a wealthy and principled businessman, is chosen to lead a secret government subcommittee investigating corruption in the U.S. defense industry.

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The Matlock Paper by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling novel, The Matlock Paper, English professor James Matlock gets roped into a dangerous mission by the U.S. Justice Department. He’s tasked with infiltrating a notorious drug trafficking ring operating from fancy New England colleges.

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The Osterman Weekend by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Osterman Weekend, a gripping psychological thriller, TV executive John Tanner gets entangled in a dangerous conspiracy when CIA agent Laurence Fassett recruits him to uncover a Soviet plot called “Omega”.

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The Scarlatti Inheritance by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, a wild adventure of espionage and betrayal takes place during the tense pre-World War II era.

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