This book was actually under Ludlum's pen name of Jonathan Ryder yet it still offers all the great suspense/thriller writing he's known for. This is the gripping story of Alex McAuliff, an American geologist hire by an international conglomerate to survey a remote region of jungle in the Jamaican interior. The details are so vague as to make him suspicious, but the pay is too high to refuse. As things develop, McAuliff finds himself in a trackless jungle, caught in a deadly struggle between the local population called the 'Halidan' and his duplicitous employers, trying to figure out whats up before it costs him his life.
This was a good piece of writing by the author. So much mystery surrounds the history - the REAL history, if I may - of Africa.
If you have read Robert Ludlum's books and haven't read this one, you have missed one of his greatest.
First pulished in 1974 when Ludlum was using a different pen-name. ABSOLUTELY GREAT ESCAPIST FICTION!
Abridged - 4 cassettes, 6 hours
The New York Times bestselling author of The Bourne Identity and The Icarus Agenda returns with another tale of mystery and intrigue. Alex McAuliff has been hired by Dunstone, Limited to survey the geology of Jamaica's dark interior. From the moment he lands in Jamaica, he's a marked man--but who wants his dead? Here in an island paradise his only clue to survival is a gingle mysterious word: Halidon.
Alex McAuliff, a brilliant geologist, can't refuse Julian Warfield's offer of a million just to perform a routine, though suspiciously secret, survey of Jamaica's jungle interior for a mammoth international combine. Alex steps into the very heart of danger when he uncovers a labyrinth of deadly intrigue lurking beneath the lush Caribbean surface.
