![]() Ludlum’s novels are fast-paced thrillers filled with intrigue and action meticulously researched but accessible and easy-to-read. I sprained my wrist turning his pages and didn’t notice until an hour later.” In 1978 critic John Leonard wrote in The New York Times that Ludlum “finds his characters on the back of cereal boxes, his prose in movie magazines, his sex in the want ads and his paranoia in our dental cavities.” However, he also stressed that Ludlum “stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined” and that he “pleases and seduces, telling his story like a man who must get it done before the house burns down around us. ![]() The first edition.Robert Ludlum wrote 27 books before his death in 2001 but it’s his original Bourne trilogy of novels he’s best remembered for. ![]()
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