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The Ambler Warning
For some bestselling authors, death is no impediment to an enduring career. But the latest Ludlum (d. 2001) novel, penned by an unnamed hired hand, reveals the problems inherent in such an arrangement: neither sufficiently like Ludlums originals nor compellingly distinctive, it inhabits a kind of thriller purgatory to which only the most dedicated Ludlumite will be eager to venture. After a two-decade career as a clandestine operative, Hal Ambler is drugged and warehoused in the Parrish Island Psychiatric Facility, a government nuthouse for spies. A sympathetic nurse aids his escape, and soon Ambler is on the run, trying to figure out who he is and, more importantly, who he was. There are a few interesting characters—particularly CIA accountant Clayton Caston, a man who knows little about feelings but who can tease a mountain of information out of a spys expense account—but the villains are mostly invisible and everybody else ends up dead before you really get to know them. Just because a writer can copy what was once a successful style does not automatically assure his publisher a successful book. (Oct. 25)
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This is Ludlums twenty-sixth, a remarkable feat given that he is deceased. The locale is a barrier island six miles off the coast of Virginia and officially part of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Its really the site of a psychiatric facility for patients who possess highly classified information. At Parrish Island, potential security risks could be carefully managed and the patients are identified by number, never by name. One of them is Hal Ambler, who had been a clandestine operative for nearly two decades. He doesnt know why hes being held by his own government. He also doesnt know how long he has been confined, but realizes he must escape. Theres probably no doubt in readers minds–right from the start–of the outcome, but they will be delighted to stick around to the end. Given the late authors still-viable name recognition, this novel is bound to be popular; and it could even be used as a good way for librarians to introduce unfamiliar readers to his works George Cohen
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Why Buy A The Ambler Warning?
On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little known and never visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state makes them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But theres one difference between Hal and the other patientsHal isnt crazy. With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Hal manages to clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and pulls off a daring escape. Now hes out to discover who stashed him here and whybut the world he returns to isnt the one he knew. Friends and longtime associates dont 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.
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