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by Robert Ludlum (Author), Scott Sowers (Narrator)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: MacMillan Audio; Abridged edition (29 Sep 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1427208107
  • ISBN-13: 978-1427208101
  • Product Dimensions: 14.8 x 13.2 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,902,685 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Ambler Warning, like many of Robert Ludlum's thrillers, gets much of its sense from our knowledge that intelligence agencies cannot be trusted to play fair even by their own. Hal Ambler is held in a facility for insane agents and is himself being drugged to a point where he cannot trust his own crumbling sanity. Even when he escapes, he is unable to be sure of his own past and identity--his very face is not as he remembers, let alone his fishing cabin and the friends of his youth. Something has been made from the wreckage of his mind, and he is not sure whether every step he takes may not be a part of someone else's plan. By contrast, Caston is the sort of intelligence agent who despises the Hal Amblers of this world--he is an accountant who follows the money of assassination and terror round the world while sitting in front of a monitor. Yet he too starts to get a sense that he is being used.

Part of the originality and strength of Ludlum's new thriller is that he always knows when to pull surprises like the eventual alliance of Caston and Ambler--two dangerously flawed and partial men in search of knowledge and also of wholeness. The glimpses of the great world of political innovation, and the theories that inform them, also give this rather more thoughtfulness than we saw in, say, Ludlum's recent Bourne books. ---Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

IRISH INDEPENDENT, 26 Nov

"The excitement and body count is high" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Why bother, 30 Nov 2005
By N. Andrews (Welling Kent) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ambler Warning (Hardcover)
It seems that since Mr Ludlums sad demise some years ago his estate or his pulishers cannot wait to come up with yet another rip off novel. This book has nowhere near the style or the pace of any off his own written works. If these people insist on churning out " Robert Ludlum" novels they should at least try and get it right!!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Time to stop...., 15 Nov 2005
By N. Brett (Wiltshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ambler Warning (EXP/AIR) (Paperback)
Inside the cover (in very small writing) is a statement that this is written by an un-named author carefully selected by the estate of Robert Ludlum. So we have to remember that this has nothing to do with Robert Ludlum, it is a Robert Ludlum style novel.

Anyway, guy escapes from high security asylum for mad ex-operatives to find out the truth about himself and to expose a high level conspiracy.

But is it any good? No, not really. It tries too hard to have the traditional Ludlum components (highly skilled operative/conspiracy/double cross etc etc) but you feel that you have read it before (and better) in previous ‘proper’ Ludlum books. Robert Ludlum wrote some great thrillers and this abuse of his name is watering down the legacy he left behind.

The only thing that (for me) lifts this from one star to two is the introduction of an auditor as a supporting character. This was a bit different and I enjoyed some of the inter-action, but this was a minor good point in a very average thriller.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Really - don't bother, 28 Dec 2007
By J. Potter (Sierra de Yeguas, Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ambler Warning (Paperback)
I wish I had read the other amazon reviews before I started this book, but I bought it abroad - and it is one of the very few books that I have ever put in the bin. There are so many good thriller writers out there that there is no need to read a pseudo-Ludlum. What is his estate thinking of, comissioning ghost writers? And what is the publisher thinking of, emblazoning Ludlum's name across the cover when he did not write it? These are, of course, rhetorical questions!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Writhing in his grave!!!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Really disappointing. It took me several weeks to end this book. A record !
I typicall love stories by Robert Ludlum but this one is far from being the best one. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good read, but nothing special
After the hype of his books - both written by himself, or his estate, , I decided to read The Ambler Warning, after reading the blurb, and finding it quite interesting. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2007 by S Richard

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Hard Work
I love reading books and especially adventure / spy / war etc. but this was hard work. Some of the words used in the book did not make sense, americanized versions of stuffy... Read more
Published on 19 May 2007 by Mr. T. A. Scott

5.0 out of 5 stars A true page-turner
This was my first Ludlum novel and I must say I enjoyed it a great deal. An exciting story with so many twists and turns, some of them really shocking. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2007 by Nitrus

2.0 out of 5 stars Flirts with entertaining but ultimately comes up short
Ghost written Posthumously, The Ambler Warning is the latest offering from the man more prolific in death than Tupac Shakur. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not up to Mr Ludlum's high standards
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