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The Sigma Protocol - Robert Ludlum.

 Summary

Robert Ludlum's trademark skills of intricate plotting, breakneck pacing, and high-wire drama are all on display in this gripping thriller. After his twin brother dies in a plane crash, Ben Hartman reluctantly takes his place in the investment firm started by their father, a Holocaust survivor. But then an old college buddy tries to kill Ben on a crowded Zurich street, setting off a chain of events that ultimately leads Ben into the thick of a worldwide conspiracy. Behind it is Sigma, a multinational cartel built on the rubble of World War II by industrialists and financiers bent on exploiting wartime technology and protecting their wealth from the threat of communism.

Accompanied by a beautiful American justice department agent, Ben eludes the assassins on his trail and follows Sigma's tentacles across Europe, to Argentina*, Washington, and finally to a sanitarium known as the Clockworks in the Austrian Alps, where the horrifying agenda of a perverted new world order is revealed. Ludlum, who died between the writing and publishing of this book, was a master of the genre he helped popularize, and The Sigma Protocol shows him at the peak of his craft.

*F'ucking silly reviewer on Amazon said they've been to Brazil. lrn2readyourbooks

Like a lot of Robert Ludlum's books, this one is thrilling, fast-paced and mind-blowing. The book features various plots at the same time, making your head multi-task while reading in the same chapter what's going on in Paris, Brussels, London and New York simultaneously. Published after Ludlum's death, the book excels in every field Ludlum is used to. If you liked the Bourne trilogy (movies or books, the same), this book won't let you down.