by Robert Ludlum, Phillip Shelby, Frank Muller
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For thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been the acknowledged master of suspense and global intrigue. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in nearly every country around the world, his books have thrilled hundreds of millions of readers setting a standard that has never been equaled. Having once again raised the bar with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor, Ludlum returns with the latest novel in his Covert-One series. Delivering all of the complex, compelling action and heartstopping suspense for which he has become so justly famous, Robert Ludlum's latest is a novel that could only come from the imagination of one of America's greatest storyteller:The Cassandra CompactYuri Danko, a deep cover Russian asset for Covert-One, is on the run.His last communication was a cryptic and urgent plea for extraction.With no hint of what sudden danger Danko encountered or information he uncovered that could have driven him to such extreme action, Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to the pre-arranged meeting place with instructions to bring Danko out.Ten days later, in Venice, Danko arrives breathless and bedraggled at Jon Smith's table at an outdoor caf in Venice.But he barely opens his mouth before his body is ripped apart by a spray of assassins' bullets.Smith, eluding the hail of bullets, gives chase - only to witness the assassins themselves falling prey to a brutal execution.With only the scant clues left behind by Danko to go on, Jon Smith and Covert-One quickly conclude that someone is out to do the unthinkable - attempt to steal Russia's store of the smallpox virus.Now completely eradicated, smallpox is the deadliest of viruses and could well cause an epidemic of undreamed of scale should it be released in the general population. Smith and his Covert-One colleagues must prevent the virus from being stolen.But their unseen adversaries are several steps ahead of them and the virus is en route to the United States.Now they must unravel the complex scheme, overcome their powerful and invisible opponents, and recover or destroy the virus before the power of total Armageddon rests comfortably in the arms of a madman.AUTHORBIO: Robert Ludlum is the internationally bestselling author of twenty-four novels published in thirty-two languages and forty countries. Read by hundreds of millions world-wide, his books include The Prometheus Deception, The Bourne Identity, The Icarus Agenda, and The Chancellor Manuscript. He divides his time between Florida and Montana.Philip Shelby is a screenwriter and novelist whose numerous books include the bestselling novels Days of Drums, Last Rites, and The Gatekeeper. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Amazon.com Review
Covert-One, the president's personal, super-secret agency formed after some recent virus-driven chaos (The Hades Factor, cowritten with Gayle Lynds), is staffed by an unknown number of international covert operatives, including Dr. Jon Smith, late of the USAMRIID. And a good thing, too, because someone's helped themselves to Russia's share of the world's last two stores of the smallpox virus, an eradicated yet hideously deadly bug with no ready vaccine. That the pox was nabbed and who nabbed it is clear enough early on. Why such a seemingly large and disparate cadre of global citizens (keeping the players straight puts one in mind of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" routine) chose to pinch the bug and for what end are the novel's driving questions. Freelance Serbian uber-nasty, Ivan Beria, is among the apparent perpetrators as are Dylan Reed and Adam Treloar of NASA, Tony Price, the head of the super- secret NSA, and a bunch of Russians. The good-guys roster claims Smith; Covert- One's head, Nathaniel Klein; Briton and ex-SAS man, Peter Howell; Smith's deceased girlfriend's sister and CIA operative, Randi Russell; the girlfriend's best friend, backup shuttle astronaut Megan Olson; and another bunch of Russians. Suffice it to say that Smith and company trot the globe, cat-and- mousing after the pox and in so doing careen through a classically speedy and Ludlumesque (if coincidence dependent) plot leaving large numbers of efficiently dispatched corpses in their wake. Most authors of international thriller-mysteries would give their right trench coat to make The New York Times® Best Sellers list. Of the late Robert Ludlum's 21 novels, 21 have resided upon that list. Where The Cassandra Compact, written with bestselling thriller author Philip Shelby (Gatekeeper, etc.), winds up is anyone's guess, but a few hundred thousand nightstands is a good place to start. And stay tuned for more installments--Ludlum may be dead, but he's not done yet. --Michael Hudson
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 Really impressed, 2008-06-08
Wow!! I couldn't put this book down. If you like to read a book with twists and turns around every corner, you'll love this one.
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 Another enjoyable thriller!, 2008-03-16
Since this is another one of the authors books that I enjoyed there is not lot to say. This is the 25th book of his (author and co-author) that I have read. I am a big fan of his and I was not bored at any point in the book. The last 6 books of his that I have read, including this one, have been very good or better (starting with The Apocalypse Watch). At times I did not want to put it down. As a suspense thriller it is a typically exciting book by the author. If you enjoyed the Hades Factor then read this one since it is a sequel. If you want to read this book it would be a good idea to read the Hades Factor first. ENJOY!
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 Not Free SF Reader, 2007-09-03
The second of the Cover One series, again featuring the doctor-spook Jon Smith. He, and a group of allies must stop an opposing group of crazies doing bad things with a version of smallpox.
The tiny ultra-clandestine agency again tasks Smith to look into this and stop it.
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Amazing Book , 2006-12-05
Dr. Jon Smith was sent deep into Venice to bring out a man named Yuri Danko, a Russian General who got his hands on vital information he thought the United States should know. As Jon was going to the meet him Danko was shot and killed right in front of him with out a passing of information. They discovered that a virus was going to be stolen out of Russia. At Bioaparart in Russia the world's most deadliest virus was kept, SMALLPOX. Unfortunately the virus was stolen. It was brought to America, all the people who helped get the virus to America were killed by an assassin named Beria.
Viruses in space grow a lot faster and bigger in space as they do on land. There was a space shuttle that is leaving to go up into space to run tests on viruses. On the shuttle there was a man by the name of Dylan Reed whose plan is to secretly test the smallpox virus and makes it much more deadly on earth than it used to be. After making the virus stronger he released it in the shuttle and used the astronauts as human guinea pigs. They remote controlled the landing into a secrete decontamination center. Bauer discovered were the decontamination center is located and got there before Jon. Bauer rushed inside got a sample of the smallpox virus and punctured Dylan's suit so he would get infected with the virus...They turned on the burners and the shuttle was burned...
The book pleased me... It was action packed with something new every time you turn the page. There is another gun fight, chase or someone getting killed or kidnapped. The way the author describes what is happing is amazing. The detail and the mood he sets is amazing. I loved it's theme about chemical warfare with corruption and the need to go around the world to get information.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes an action packed book with something new happening every time your turn the page.
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The Cassandra Compact: A Covert One Novel, 2006-03-03
Another very good book by Ludlum, a little busy in the begining but plays out in the end. Worth a listen
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