The Parsifal Mosaic

By Michael J. Cain

Book Overview

Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava as he watched his partner and lover, double agent Jenna Karas, efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There's nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Then, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. Racing around the globe in search of his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is now marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist: Parsifal. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Parsifal Mosaic " Robert] Ludlum's narrative imagination is a force of nature." -- The New York Times "As fast-paced and absorbing as any he's written." -- Newsday "The suspense never lets up." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A crackling good yarn." --Los Angeles Times Book Review This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394521110
• ISBN13: 9780394521114
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of Ludlum's very best!

I'm a big Ludlum fan and have read several of his works. I have to say, Parsifal Mosaic is definitely one of his best works. The characters are well developed, plot is deep, and descriptions of places and events are vivid and well put together. Ludlum has built the characters very well, and this book is really a thriller from the protagonist's (Michael Havelock) perspective, as opposed to some of this other works where the...

This PROVES why Ludlum had NO equal in the 70's & 80's...

I was introduced to Ludlum in the late 70's by my brother who claimed that if I thought Clive Cussler was a good author, I needed to check out somebody who could really plot a story well.I started off with The Bourne Identity, which I still rank as one of the most original stories I have ever read. I waited quite some time before attempting 'Parisfal', and by the time I finally got around to doing so, it didn't take long...

A guilty pleasure for the discerning reader

One feels almost shame in enjoying the works of Robert Ludlum. The dialogue steps out of the Stone Age onto the paper (the phrases "my friend" and "spell it out" are used overgenerously), the melodrama is suffocating (ditto the words "madness" and "insanity", always in italics and always followed with an exclamation point), and the characters are photocopies of each other from book to book. Meanwhile, the good-guy spy...

The Best!!!!

This book represents Ludlum at his best, bar none!!! My only problem with this book is the dialogue which strikes me as unrealistic. I found myself repeatedly thinking that people do not speak to each other as the characters do in this novel. Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed the characters, the plot development and, well, just about everything else. In fact, I have read this book at least ten times. For my money,...

Demonstrates why Ludlum has been called "The Master"!!!

Firstoff, I am a huge Ludlum fan. I was one of the first people to write a review of his latest novel "The Matarese Countdown" which I really enjoyed. Sadly though many people did not agree with my assessment and I even received email inquiring about my mental state! While I certainly believe that people are entitled to their opinions it really bothers me when people talk about giving up on an author just because they haven't...