The Sigma Protocol

By Sonia Choquette

Book Overview

Now comes The Sigma Protocol, a new breakneck novel of intrigue, conspiracy, and terrifying deception.American investment banker Ben Hartman arrives in Zurich for a ski holiday, the first time he's been back to Switzerland since his twin brother died there in a tragic accident four years earlier. But his arrival in Zurich triggers something far more sinister than his brother's fate. When Ben chances upon Jimmy Cavanaugh, an old college friend, Cavanaugh promptly pulls out a gun and tries to kill him. In a matter of minutes, several innocent bystanders are dead - as well as Cavanaugh - and Ben has barely managed to survive. Plunged into an unspeakable nightmare, Hartman suddenly finds himself on the run.Department of Justice field agent Anna Navarro is being stalked around the world by a relentless killer, managing to survive the killer's attacks only by a combination of luck, skill and her own quick wits.These attacks are somehow related to her current assignment: investigating the sudden - and seemingly unrelated - deaths of a number of very old men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them is a file in the CIA archives, over a half-century old, marked with the same puzzling code word:SIGMA.But someone or something is always seemingly one step ahead of her, the survivors are rapidly dwindling, and her own life is in ever increasing danger.Brought together by accident, Ben and Anna soon realize that their only hope of survival lies with each other.Together they race to uncover the diabolical secrets long hidden behind the code word, Sigma. Secrets that threaten everything they think they know about themselves, everything they believed true about their friends and families, and everything they were ever taught about history itself. For behind Sigma lies a vast deception that is finally coming to fruition and the fate and future of the world is in their hands.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312276885
• ISBN13: 9780312276881
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 535 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A Wild Ride Ludlum Style

Ben Hartman is an American investment banker who takes over the firm started by his father after his twin brother is killed. Then a college pal tries to kill him in Zurich, which turns out to be the beginning of the attempts on his life. Together Anna Navarro, an agent from the American Justice Department, they try to unearth the secrets long-buried under the name Sigma-truths which threaten everything they know. Simply an...

A Flashback to when Ludlum wrote TRUE thrillers...

...'The Sigma Protocol' is like taking a time machine back to when Ludlum could do no wrong when it came to writing books which took your average everyday person (or maybe above average spy) and placed them in impossible situations against a global conspiracy which threatened peace on either part of or all of the planet. I am happy to say that whether or not a shadow writer helped to fine tune whatever script Ludlum left...

First Ludlum book- DEFINITELY NOT THE LAST!!!

I found out Mr. Ludlum passed away in the last year. I thought- why not read one of his books? I sort of wanted to at best. What I got into COMPLETELY took me by surprise. THIS MAY BE THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!!!!! Imagine Ben Hartman seeing one of his old high school buddies who he hasn't seen in the past 15 years in Europe. Now imagine your "buddy" pulling a gun out to try to kill you. Ben luckily survives and then...

Sigma Protocol is Classic Ludlum!!!

Although it is not known how many additional finished or nearly finished transcripts exist, if any, following the death of Robert Ludlum, I was happy to have at least had the opportunity to enjoy the Sigma Protocol. This latest work was really quite good and very difficult to put down. This book grabs the reader early and does not let go, leading on more than one occasion to fits of yawning in the morning because I had stayed...

Ludlum's Back

Not really, of course. Mr. Ludlum died before The Sigma Protocol was published, but fortunately for his reading fans the book was edited and published. It is vintage Ludlum with fast paced action from the opening to the final page. Ben Hartman is an unlikely hero who is plunged into a world of deception where in true Ludlum fashion "nothing is as it seems." Ben is an investment banker who just happens to be in great shape...