*****
Another accidental hero by Ludlum
A great author such as Ludlum had the ability to enter into completely
different settings and stories, at the same time proposing a version of his “flawed”
hero, to whom all sorts of things happened in the book and who was at risk of
dying more than once, but in the end he could succeed, despite the fact that he
always made many false steps and hurt himself a great deal.
In this case, there’s a British university
teacher, James Matlock, who is involved in trying to get rid of a huge organization
connected to drug trafficking, prostitution, and much more, that involves many
American universities. Matlock is not a fool. Being a former soldier, he is
full of inventive. However, he finds himself struggling against something
bigger than him and in doing so, in an escalation of murders, chases,
abductions, explosions and so on, at some point, he will not know how many of
the parties are at stake and whether there is at least one that he can trust.
In this book Ludlum, as always, shows a great
inventiveness and his ability to keep you turning the pages. Along with
Matlock, the reader will try to come up with a tricky net of intrigues and,
perhaps, survive.
Although this book is written in 1973, the book
is very timely. Of course, there are no mobiles, there is no internet and so
many other technologies we can find in action thrillers these years, but the
difficulty created by the absence of such means, with the protagonist who is
forced to go hunting for telephone booths (!), makes your reading even more
enjoyable and the sense of danger more realistic.
The Matlock Paper on Amazon.
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