Top recommended novels and book reviews, commentary
Although Popular Fitness is a fitness, exercise and overall health website, it is also good to have other hobbies and interests in life. If you enjoy reading spy novels or intriguing and suspenseful novels, then I guarantee that you will really enjoy reading these great thrillers.
A friend of mine got me hooked on these books many years ago by giving me a couple of his books: Bourne Identity and Parsifal Mosaic. I didn't think much about these books until I picked up Parsifal Mosaic and started reading it. Since that time, I have read almost all of his novels. Once I started reading, I became basically addicted to his novels and did not want to put the book down. Ludlum is an extremely talented author capable of keeping the reader in suspense with numerous plots and twisted subplots, fast moving action and with the story climaxing at just the right moment.
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The Bourne Identity
by Robert Ludlum. To place your order: Paperback AudiobookBook excerpt. A mysterious man is dragged from the sea on the island of Port Noir in the Northern Mediterranean. Under the care of a kind doctor, the patient awakes from his coma only to find that he does not know who he is or where he came from. He is only aware that he is well-educated, intelligent, speaks several languages and posesses the body of an athlete. He assumes the name of Jason Bourne and attempts to piece together his identity while constantly fleeing from his unkown enemies.
This is one of Robert Ludlum's finest, best spy novels. I guarantee that you will not want to put this book down! The movie starring Matt Damon is really good, but the book is a lot better! I read all of the Ludlum novels before any movie came out.
The Bourne Supremacy
by Robert Ludlum. To place your order, click: Paperback Audiobook
Several high ranking Chinese officials lie assassinated in the Far East, including a general, with the words Jason Bourne scrawled across the walls. The only man capable of finding the Jason Bourne imposter is Jason Bourne himself. To force the issue and prevent the outbreak of impending war in the Far East, Jason Bourne's wife is kidnapped compelling Jason Bourne to come out of hiding to find this imposter that has assumed his name. The second in the Bourne trilogy, it is just as suspenseful and entertaining as the first
The Bourne Ultimatum
by Robert Ludlum. To place your order, click: Paperback Audiobook
The third and final novel in the Bourne trilogy. Carlos the Jackal has just summoned Jason Bourne to a final confrontation. Using Medusa, Bourne devises an elaborate plan to entrap Carlos. The story, full of close calls and misses, takes the two deadly antagonists to Montserrat, Paris and finally to Moscow culminating in their final explosive confrontation. From the beginning it promises to hold your interest with mounting suspense and high-voltage excitement. By far the greatest thriller written by Robert Ludlum!
The Chancellor Manuscript
By Robert Ludlum. To place your order: Paperback
A secret organization calling themselves Inver Brass comprised of high ranking US government officials and citizens committed to the preservation of society and democracy has grown tired and frightened of J. Edgar Hoover's growing powers and secret files. Files containing private and confidential information about influential people gathered by Hoover which Inver Brass fears Hoover is using to control people. Inver Brass creates an elaborate plan to asassinate the FBI boss, but are dissapointed to find that half the Hoover files are missing. They decide to use a novelist, Peter Chancellor, to help them uncover these files. As the novelist probes deeper and deeper into the mystery of the whereabouts of these files, he is surrounded by death and fear. He knows that he will survive only if the files are recovered and the mystery surrounding these files is uncovered!
The Scorpio Illusion
By Robert Ludlum. To place your order: Paperback Audiobook
A young girl after witnessing the brutal death of both her parents by Spanish soldiers assumes the name of Bajaratt and vows death to all authority. She is a highly talented, intelligent and beautiful terrorist committed to the assassinations of four important and influential world leaders with the financial backing of the Scorpios and the military backing of a group in the Middle East. To find this woman, the French and British governments have hired a former naval intelligence officer, Commander Hawthorne. Using her tricks, disguises and the Scorpios she is able to evade the Commander at every turn as his contacts are slowly eliminated and she draws nearer to her target. This is a novel full of intrigue, tragedies, coincidences and whose outcome will only be determined in the final moment!
The Parsifal Mosaic
By Robert Ludlum. To place your order: Paperback
"Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karas, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna- alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both Russian and US assassins, racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery, created by a top level mole with the world in his fist- Parsifal." New York Times book review.
Other Novels by Robert Ludlum worth exploring
- The Road to Omaha
- The Matarese Circle
- The Apocalypse Watch
- The Osterman Weekend
- The Rhinemann Exchange
- The Matlock Papers
- Icarus Agenda
- The Holcroft Covenant
- The Gemini Contenders
- The Cry of Halidon
- Trevayne
- Scarlatti Inheritance
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