

Robert Ludlum’s novels have been loved by hundreds of millions of readers and are largely regarded as masterpieces in the area, with an uninterrupted run of bestsellers in nearly every country in the globe. Robert Ludlum’s novels have set the bar for the best in international intrigue and suspense for the past 30 years. Now Smith and Russell must discover it, track down the maniac who owns it, and stop him before he holds a helpless planet captive with the capacity to extinguish the human race. His mission: deliver it to an unnamed American government operative, a mysterious individual whose motivations for obtaining the bioweapon become even more enigmatic when both men are slain and the strain is taken. With Danko’s confidential files in their hands, Covert-One operator Jon Smith and CIA undercover agent Randi Russell have discovered a horrifying worldwide conspiracy that threatens to unleash a pandemic of unprecedented proportions.įrom Russia, a Serb terrorist has been dispatched to bring dangerous vials of deadly germs into the United States. It’s insanity!” Those were the last words said by Yuri Danko, an officer in Russia’s security service’s medical section, before his body was torn apart by assassins’ bullets. “What they’re going to do, I never would have believed it. Now, in a work that could only have originated from the mind of the world’s greatest storyteller, Covert-One is back. With his internationally praised blockbusters The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor, the first novel in his thrilling Covert-One series, Ludlum managed to raise the standard once more in 2000. Robert Ludlum has been regarded as the maestro of worldwide suspense and intrigue for more than three decades.
