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#1 Bestselling Author ROBERT LUDLUM™ THE AMBLER WARNING ________________________________________________________________________ “One heck of a thriller…loaded with all the intrigue, paranoia, and real-life parallels that made Ludlum famous.” --People on The Janson Directive

“Finely crafted…the novel’s action sequences are as thrillingly staged on the page as they’ll inevitably be on the big screen.” --Entertainment Weekly on The Sigma Protocol

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Recent Robert Ludlum novels--The Sigma Protocol, The Janson Directive, and The Tristan Betrayal--each spent multiple weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, while the blockbuster movie versions of his earlier books, The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, starring Matt Damon, hit movie theatres and introduced a whole new generation to Ludlum’s work. Now, the eagerly awaited new ROBERT LUDLUM™ THE AMBLER WARNING is poised to become one of the fall’s hottest reads and is certain to thrill his legion of fans—old and new.

In THE AMBLER WARNING, there is a little known and never visited psychiatric facility on Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia. In this tightly guarded place, the government keeps former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state makes them a danger to their own government. It’s a secure environment where they can treat those who are out of their minds, especially when those minds are full of state secrets. Security is so tight that patients are identified by numbers rather than names and those considered especially high risk are isolated from other patients in a locked ward.

One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Harrison “Hal” Ambler, patient No. 5312, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there’s one difference between Hal and the other patients—Hal isn’t crazy. He served his country during a two decade career as a clandestine operative and has no idea why he’s been virtually imprisoned on Parrish Island. He cultivates the sympathy of the nurse who dispenses his medication, and she begins to recognize his sanity. She replaces his mind-altering medication with simple Tylenol so officials will still believe he’s being medicated, while she’s actually removing him from his drug-induced haze. With his mind clear and his covert skills in tack once again, Hal is able to make a daring escape from the island.

Now free, Ambler is out to discover who stashed him at the facility and why—but the world he returns to isn’t the one he knew. Friends and longtime associates don’t remember him, there are no official records of Hal Ambler, and when he first sees himself in the mirror, the face that looks back at him is not the one he knows as his own. Within hours of escaping, Ambler finds himself being hunted by several unknown assailants, and in a race against time, must force hidden memories to resurface in order to save himself from those who are determined to see him dead.

In the bestselling tradition of The Bourne Identity, Sigma Protocol and The Janson Directive, THE AMBLER WARNING is a spellbinding thriller of high-stakes suspense, non-stop action and heart-pounding twists and turns.

About the Author: ROBERT LUDLUM’s more than twenty international bestsellers include such classics as The Bourne Identity and The Chancellor Manuscript. Over the past thirty years, hundreds of millions of readers worldwide have made Robert Ludlum one of the best known and most beloved of modern novelists.

ROBERT LUDLUM™ THE AMBLER WARNING Hardcover * Fiction $25.95 *528 pages Publication/On Sale Date: October 18, 2005 ISBN: 0-312-31671-2

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