The Road to Gandolfo

This was a really fast reading one that I enjoyed. I was assigned to Germany by myself, and my boss gave me a stack of Ludlum box, and I poured through one after another. This was a Winner.......more

When I first picked up this book decades ago, I expected it to be another in a long line of highly entertaining Ludlum thrillers. Four hours later, I couldn't remember the last time I had laughed so much, so consistently. This is the second funniest book written by Ludlum (top spot goes to its seque......more

I knew Ludlum's name from the Bourne trilogy, plus I picked up (but haven't started) an intriguing novel about Nazi children after WWII. Ludlum did a clever job of explaining in his preface that he had taken a humorous turn in writing this story, and his description was humourous enough to interest m......more

This was fun. I added another star for Brick, the reader. I swear he read this at times in an eerie, but entirely apt, imitation of Arlo Guthrie Jr. doing "Alice's Restaurant". No music or four part harmony, but still! It was fun & fit perfectly in with the tongue-in-cheek story. The Hawk was a great......more

A disgraced general, MacKenzie Hawkins, decides to kidnap the Pope for ransom. He enlists his four ex-wives, a reluctant attorney, Sam Devereaux, and an international cast of characters in this crime. One dollar for every Catholic in the world is his goal as he commands and plans his way. All Sam wa......more