The Sigma Protocol
Robert Ludlum's trademark skills of intricate plotting, breakneck  pacing, and high-wire drama are all on display in this gripping thriller. After  his twin brother dies in a plane crash, Ben Hartman reluctantly takes his place  in the investment firm started by their father, a Holocaust survivor. But then  an old college buddy tries to kill Ben on a crowded Zurich street, setting off a  chain of events that ultimately leads Ben into the thick of a worldwide  conspiracy. Behind it is Sigma, a multinational cartel built on the rubble of  World War II by industrialists and financiers bent on exploiting wartime  technology and protecting their wealth from the threat of communism.Accompanied by a beautiful American justice department agent, Ben eludes the  assassins on his trail and follows Sigma's tentacles across Europe, to Brazil,  Washington, and finally to a sanitarium known as the Clockworks in the Austrian  Alps, where the horrifying agenda of a perverted new world order is revealed.  Ludlum, who died between the writing and publishing of this book, was a master  of the genre he helped popularize, andThe Sigma Protocolshows him at  the peak of his craft.--Jane Adams