content: Very disappointing after some of the fine work Ludlum has done. It reads like a poor James Bond with the hero able to always succeed at every impossible task and unbelievable bad guys who always screw up. The Bond girl kills the pilot and machine gunner in a helocopter with two rifle shots while driving a speedboat at top speed on Chesapeake Bay, for example. It's more like a parody of Ludlum.