The Ambler Warning

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Hardcover, 489 pages

English language

Published Oct. 30, 2005 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-0-312-31671-6
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On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state―and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there's one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients―Ambler isn't crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out who put him there, and uncover the truth of who he was…and why someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead.

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2 stars

Robert Ludlum (and later his estate) writes about an assassin character who has extreme memory loss. Hmmm....

After we get a little glimpse of Hal Ambler not being able to find himself in any search, I found myself thinking of Total Recall - where the only person who could erase everything he knew was himself. Alas, the plot was not that interesting.

I found the secondary character of Caston, the CIA number cruncher, to be a more interesting hook, and enjoyed their limited partnership towards the end of the novel.

Robert Ludlum could have edited and tightened this story to 3 or 4 stars easily, but the estate has only produced a fairly derivative work.

Subjects

  • Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.
  • Intelligence officers -- Fiction.
  • Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
  • Escapes -- Fiction.