The Prometheus Deception: A Novel
Written by Robert Ludlum
Narrated by Frank Muller
3.5/5
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Robert Ludlum is the acknowledged master of suspense and international intrigue. For the past twenty-five years he has had an unbroken string of bestselling novels, selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and setting a standard that has yet to be surpassed. With The Prometheus Deception, Ludlum's first new novel in three years, he is at the very pinnacle of his craft.
Nicholas Bryson was a deep-cover operative for a secret American intelligence group called the Directorate. After a mission went wrong he was retired to a new identity as a college professor in Pennsylvania. Now, years later, he discovers that the Directorate was using him against his own country's interests. The deputy director of the CIA enlists Bryson to stop the Directorate's latest lethal maneuver and end the group for good.
Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum (1927-2001) was the author of 25 thriller novels, including The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum--the books on which the international hit movies were based--and The Sigma Protocol. He was also the creator of the Covert-One series. Born in New York City, Ludlum received a B.A. from Wesleyan University, and before becoming an author, he was a United States Marine, a theater actor and producer.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ludlum is an acknowledged master of spy thrillers and intrigue, another favorite genre of mine. I haven’t read any for several years, but got started on this one, and became caught up in the levels of deception. Nick Bryson is a top agent for a super-secret agency called the Directorate. He is retired after a deep-cover operation goes awry and is given a new identity as professor in a small college. Several years later, his former agent instincts still intact, he realizes he is being shadowed by other agents apparently determined to kidnap him — at least that’s his initial impression. He eludes their trap, only to be approached more civilly by their boss, the head of the CIA, who has a fantastic story to tell. It appears that Bryson had been working for a Russian mole operation that recruited American citizens for super- secret operations that were supposedly in the American national interest: the Directorate. The CIA discovered this hidden agency only after examination of files following the fall of the Soviet Union. Bryson is stunned and agrees to work for the CIA to determine what the Directorate is now planning; evidence has mounted they are still operating and planning some kind of major action. (Ludlum never explains how Bryson could just vanish from his college, but, as with most books in this genre, a certain suspension of belief is necessary. Bryson is also the luckiest man alive because he happens to notice things just before his head is about to get blown off. He should have been a professional gambler; the way he beats the odds, he could have been rich at much less risk.) In a rush to get at the truth and to prevent the machinations of the Directorate, or is it another even more secret organization, Prometheus, he flits from one country to another, followed by assassins and tragedies: anthrax in Vienna, exploding passenger trains, crashing airliners, massive surveillance of everything we do.
As it turns out, the Directorate is one of the good guys, but in one of those ironies so typical of these great conspiracy theory books, the good guys have to rely on the web of surveillance networks and hidden conspiracies to prevention of takeover of the world by bad guys who want to legalize the kind of surveillance the Directorate relies on to get the bad guys. I don’t think you can have it both ways. To finally gather the evidence they need, Elena and Nick manage to read through practically the entire British Library in about two hours, something that strained my credulity.
Ludlum seems to have as his theme the dangers of a wired world with its potential for destruction of privacy, but this one lacks the subtlety of his earlier books. But if you like James Bond movies and are willing to suspend reality, you’ll love this book. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book had a good beginning, bad ending. The whole premise of the book is about secret spy organizations and their machinations. It's cool to see the main character struggle to find out the truth, and as a reader you're just waiting to find out what really is going on.But about 2/3 into the book big plot points are revealed and then it just goes downhill from there. At this point Ludlum just turns off the credibility factor and turns up the wonkiness. Things that don't make logical sense just keep occurring and characters that have nothing to do with the main plot appear. Even weirder, the baddies keep doing things to the main character that there doesn't seem to be any motivation for. But they do them anyway. Weird. I think Ludlum was trying to go for a cool, wow factor, but it fell flat.I've read a few Ludlum books right now, and I think his earlier books must be his best because his later books just don't seem that good.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5American intelligence operative Nicholas Bryson is forced into a new identity; then his cover is blown.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This spy novel started out good. A master spy is put out to pasture by his organization, only to discover later that the group he worked for wasn't what he thought it was and he had been working for the wrong side all the time. He then tries to get back in to discover what is going on. The chase lasts the rest of the book with improbably twist after improbably twist. I lost count of how many people he killed and how many times he escapes certain death. He heals amazingly quickly from knife wounds, gunshots and every other thing that comes his way. Somehow he can fight off five people at once and kill them all without too serious of wounds himself. It seems everyone in the world wants him dead. Why? Who knows. The end of this novel unveils a Big Brother plot where everyone in the world (literally, everyone everywhere) is under computerized surveillance and no one will commit crime because everyone will know about it. Privacy will be non existent and they believe that everyone will be happy to have it. While I find the concept of having every house, every building bugged ridiculous, the methods by which the Prometheus group goes about implementing their plan is quite unnerving. I believe how they do it is completely possible in today's world. A conspiracy between a relatively small group of people, well funded and well placed, could cause this kind of havoc if left unchecked. I would like to think that it couldn't happen, but I have to admit it could. The worst part is that there probably isn't some Super James Bond type who can single handedly stop them. This book, while interesting, becomes laughable at about three quarters through it. After awhile, it becomes silly that if this group has all this incredible surveillance capability, why can't they seem to kill this one guy. They miss him at least a dozen times. Get a sniper and take him out, for crying out loud. Clancy could have killed him easily!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Boy was Ludlum prescient on this one! Terrorists are hitting hard all over. And so the demand for greater security is really taking off too. And guess who's benefiting? Not to give anything away, but while the details may differ, I think Ludlum's thriller is a great description of the Bush gang's modus operandi.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Would have gotten 5 stars if it wasn't so long. Love Ludlum, it is very good but not his best work.