The Scarlatti Inheritance, Robert Ludlum
The Scarlatti Inheritance, Robert Ludlum
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The Scarlatti Inheritance

Author: Robert Ludlum

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Unabridged: 12 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/28/2012


Synopsis

Her weapons: money and power. Her target: the most dangerous man in the world—her own son. Elizabeth Wyckham Scarlatti has a plan, a desperate, last-minute gamble designed to save the world from her son, Ulster, an incalculably cruel man who is working for the Third Reich under the name of Heinrich Kroeger. If Elizabeth cannot stop him, Ulster will give Hitler the most powerful instrument on earth.
 
Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Scarlatti Inheritance
 
“[Robert Ludlum] has that sense of drama and pace that only the best storytellers have.”—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Gripping . . . Ludlum writes with imagination and convincing authority.”—Baltimore Sun
 
“Great, astonishing, the most spellbinding suspense in years!”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
“Drive and excitement from first page to last.”—Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather

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 John on April 22, 2018

This was my first Robert Ludlum novel, not because it was his first but because both he and it were recommended by the owner of a used book store I once frequented. So impressed I immediately bought his newest work at the time, something called The Bourne Identity. Ludlum had evolved in the ten year......more

Goodreads review by Chris on November 06, 2024

Who knew a government field accountant could make for a good lead character? This is a suspense thriller that mostly takes place in the mid 1920s during the infancy of German Small Mustache Man’s plot to take over the German government. It’s crafted as one big flashback after a brief couple chapters......more

Goodreads review by ManOfLaBook.com on May 25, 2010

Even though this is one of the first books Robert Ludlum it is one of the last ones I read so you could imagine my delight when I found this a Ludlum book I haven't yet read during a book drive at my daughter's school. The book starts in Washington DC where Major Matthew Canfield is being sent to me......more

Goodreads review by itchy on November 19, 2017

it was good but the economics bit went over my head by several miles i didn't quite expect mein fuhrer himself; sieg heil! p35: in what amounted to a slaughter of the uninformed, giovanni suggested that a desierable course of action was the formation of one parent organization with himself and his wife......more


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Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Scarlatti Inheritance
 
“[Robert Ludlum] has that sense of drama and pace that only the best storytellers have.”San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Gripping . . . Ludlum writes with imagination and convincing authority.”—Baltimore Sun
 
“Great, astonishing, the most spellbinding suspense in years!”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
“Drive and excitement from first page to last.”—Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather