The Ambler Warning - Hardcover

Ludlum, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312316712 ISBN 13: 9780312316716

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2005

Synopsis

On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there's one difference between Hal and the other patients - Hal isn't crazy. With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Hal manages to clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then pulls off a daring escape. Now he's out to discover who stashed him here and why - but the world he returns to isn't the one he remembers. Friends and longtime associates don't remember him, there are no official records of Hal Ambler, and, when he first sees himself in the mirror, the face that looks back at him is not the one he knows as his own.

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From the Back Cover:

HE'S SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T EXIST―HIMSELF.

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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ROBERT LUDLUM's more than twenty international bestsellers include such classics as The Bourne Identity (on which the blockbuster film was based), The Bourne Legacy, and The Chancellor Manuscript. For thirty years, hundreds of millions of readers worldwide have made Robert Ludlum one of the best known and most beloved of modern novelists.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312316712
• ISBN 13: 9780312316716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528