New Releases by Robert Ludlum

On the dangerous high seas of the Pacific, the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumored to carry tons of chemicals for Saddam Hussein to create new biological weapons. The U.S. President orders Fred Klein, head of Covert One, to find solid proof of what the suspect Chinese ship is ferrying. Operative Col. Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the ships true manifest. But the second agent is murdered, the proof is destroyed, and Smith is left only with a verbal message - the President''s biological father is still alive, held a prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. Smith must find the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...

In the bestselling tradition of "The Scarlatti Inheritance" and "The Rheineman Exchange," comes a compelling thriller in which one man''s actions can change the course of history.

Now in paperback--Ludlum''s critically acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller featuring an unforgettable hero who must uncover a truth that has the power to change the very course of history. Martin''s Press.

A Covert-One Novel. Novel 3 in the series.

When a Chinese cargo ship is rumored to be carrying tons of chemicals to be used by a rogue nation to create new biological weapons, the president enlists Covert-One Agent Jon Smith to uncover the truth. Available in a tall Premium Edition. Reissue.

The third novel in the Covert One series When an explosion destroys the esteemed Pasteur Institute in Paris, cyber-wizard Marty Zellerbach is left in a coma and one of the world''s top computer scientists, Emile Chambord, goes missing. Although a terrorist group claims responsibility for the bombing, American and British officials wonder whether there may be something more sinister behind it. Meanwhile in a clandestine army lab in Colorado, Lt. Col. Jon Smith is part of a team working to create a DNA computer, the most powerful computer the world has ever seen. When he learns that his friend Marty is seriously injured, he plans to leave for Paris. But then Nathan Klein, the shadowy chief of Covert-One, shows up with an assignment: find Dr. Chambord. From Paris to London, Brussels to Algiers, Smith uncovers a web of deception that will reshape Europe and threatens to destroy the United States.

Nicholas Bryson, an agent for a covert American group called the Directorate, comes out of retirement after learning the Directorate is actually a traitorous group and joins forces with the CIA to put a stop to their actions.

When an unknown virus strikes the United States, Jonathan Smith, an Army medical researcher, escapes several assassination attempts, only to discover that his fiancée is one of the victims, and that all his research is being blocked.

Determined to wreak vengeance on the person who drummed him out of the military, General MacKenzie Hawkins, along with his legal wizard, Sam Devereaux, hatches a brilliant plot to reclaim the state of Nebraska. Reprint.

From the bestselling author of The Bourne Identity, a deftly plotted story of a brilliant and seductive woman who lives singlemindedly for vengeance; the powerful forces that support her; and the one man who must find her. Contains all the hallmarks of classic Ludlum adventures--lightning-swift action, deception and disguise.

Self-made Andrew Trevayne jeopardizes himself and his family when he agrees to uncover the force that controls the United States government.

Michael Havelock''s world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, 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 U.S. and Russian 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.

A novel about rival spies who cooperate in order to stop an international group of murderers.

Set in the closing months of WW II, this story concerns the defection of a high-level Nazi who may be able to bring peace with him.