The Icarus Agenda, Robert Ludlum
The Icarus Agenda, Robert Ludlum
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The Icarus Agenda

Author: Robert Ludlum

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 29 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/12/2012

Synopsis

Colorado Congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term quietly when a political mole reveals his deepest secret: Kendrick was the anonymous hero who freed the hostages held by Arab terrorists in the American embassy in Masqat, and then silently disappeared. Now, brought into the light, Kendrick is a target, pursued by the terrorists he once outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood, where frightened whispers speak of violence yet to come, and where the fate of the free world may ultimately rest in the powerful hands of a mysterious figure known only as the Mahdi.
 
Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Icarus Agenda
 
“[Robert] Ludlum is light-years beyond his literary competition in piling plot twist upon plot twist, until the mesmerized reader is held captive. . . . Ludlum pulls out all the stops.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“[An] intricate story of conspiracies within conspiracies . . . Once you start reading you just can’t stop.”—Library Journal
 
“Readers will be hooked.”—The New York Times

About The Author

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deathbysexiness

I read this for the first time over ten years ago. Its a quite dense tome, and my copy had very tiny type-script lettering but I remember thinking that R.L. must be really smart to have written something like this, I was so impressed by his depth of imagination and flair for the dramatic ( what can......more

Goodreads review by Marc

I'm re-reading Ludlum. He's often copied, borrowed from, outright stolen from, but nobody comes close. He crams more ideas in one book, than any other writer out there. Story unbelievable? Who cares! It is a fun, well written wild ride of a book, and at 770+ pages over all too soon. Nobody does (did......more

Goodreads review by Carol

maybe 4 & 1/2. The first half left me wondering how well the author portrayed the Arab world, but it moved quickly. The last half was so intriguing and thought provoking that I couldn't put the book down, and it's a very long book! I kept stopping to discuss some of the ideas with my sounding board,......more

Goodreads review by Sophie

I keep forgetting that I need to concentrate if I'm planning to read a book by Robert Ludlum. Seem to spend half my time confused about what is going on. Enjoyable book in 2 halves - 1st half concentrates on a crisis in the Middle East and then the 2nd on the repercussions when the hero returns home......more

Goodreads review by itchy

eponymous-ey sentence: p242: "...The code name is Icarus, to be taken as a warning, a fervent prayer that he will not, like so many of his predecessors have done, try to fly too close to the sun and crash into the sea...." sva, spelling: p27: The small circle of need-to-know officials have been alerted......more

Quotes

Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Icarus Agenda
 
“[Robert] Ludlum is light-years beyond his literary competition in piling plot twist upon plot twist, until the mesmerized reader is held captive. . . . Ludlum pulls out all the stops.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“[An] intricate story of conspiracies within conspiracies . . . Once you start reading you just can’t stop.”—Library Journal
 
“Readers will be hooked.”—The New York Times

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