The Matarese Countdown, Robert Ludlum
The Matarese Countdown, Robert Ludlum
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The Matarese Countdown

Author: Robert Ludlum

Narrator: Stephen Lang

Abridged: 8 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/05/2000


Synopsis

Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of powerbrokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieve worldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty is back--and the only man with the power to stop it may have already run out of time....

CIA case officer Cameron Pryce is hot on the trail of the new Matarese alliance. His only chance to terminate its ruthless activities is to follow the trail of blood money and stone-cold killers right to the heart of its deadly conspiracy.

From the Hamptons to London's Belgrave Square, Matarese assassins have already struck with brutal efficiency, eliminating all who stand in their way. Their chain of violence is impossible to stop--until Pryce gets a rare break. One of the Matarese's victims survives long enough to whisper dying words that will blow the case wide open: the top secret code name for legendary retired CIA agent Brandon Scofield--the only man who has ever infiltrated the Matarese inner circle and lived to tell about it.

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. Ludlum passed away in March, 2001.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bernard on August 27, 2015

This was disappointing. I had hopes for this story, given the reputation of the author. How did he get such a great reputation. His writing is stilted, bordering on purple, with such lines as, "Oh, I see what you mean," said the tall, attractive, and formidable Antonia,...," and, "Our?...Taleniekov......more

Goodreads review by Marc on September 14, 2009

Wow. This was cheese. Other reviewers have probably said it better but this was way off the mark for the work of Robert Ludlum. A number of years ago I read almost all of Tom Clancy's books back-to-back during one summer of reading. This may have disguised what I later noticed to be a "dumbing" down......more

Goodreads review by Arnis on December 17, 2023

Pirms aptuveni 25 gadiem nu jau atvaļinātais CIP aģents Brandon Scofield ar segvārdu Beowulf Agate vai sava ienaidnieka dusmās saukts par pasaules cūku jau vienreiz apturēja šīs leģendārās un baiļu ieviesošās organizācijas grandiozos plānus par dominanci pār pasaules ekonomiku. Bet četru ietekmīgu b......more

Goodreads review by Fredrick on June 08, 2015

After an absence of twenty-four years the Matarese are back with their plans for world domination. A CIA agent and a military intelligence office work to prevent that takeover with the help of a retired CIA agent who destroyed the group two decades previously. This work is fast paced with bodies dro......more

Goodreads review by Matt on March 04, 2017

Not as action=packed as the first Matarese story (something I find with a few Ludlum sequels, Bourne Supremacy being the exception). The theme of a global takeover reminded me of my favourite Ludlum novel, Aquitaine Progression, but the manner of the takeover is different.......more


Quotes

"Welcome to Robert Ludlum's world...fast pacing, tight plotting, international intrigue."
--The Plain Dealer, Cleveland

"If a Pulitzer Prize were awarded for escapist fiction, Robert Ludlum undoubtedly would have won it. Ten times over."
--Mobile Register