The Sigma Protocol

Rating:
Summary: Grand Slam Thriller
Review: This book was very long and descriptive. However, it is action-packed with many plot twists and turns.

Anna Navarro is a Justice Department agent who is given the assignment of finding out why a group of elderly men around the world are getting killed. These men belonged to a highly secretive organization known as Sigma. In the interim, Ben Hartman is a thirty-ish banker on a ski trip in Switzerland and as he is about to depart, an old college "friend" notices him in a hotel lobby and makes an attempt on his life but fails. As you continue to read the book, you will discover that there is a direct link between the attempted murder of Hartman and Sigma.

Anna and Ben accidentally meet each other about a third way through the novel and discover that they both have a lot in common which is the desire to learn more about Sigma and some of its past and present members.

This was a great novel with lots of good history on the many doctors who performed human experiments during (...) Germany. Of course, some of it is fiction but much of it is not after I had done my own research on the topics in this book. If you do not read any other Ludlum novel, please find time to read the Sigma Protocol.

Rating:
Summary: International suspense par excellence
Review: This was my first Ludlum and like many Ludlumists I cannot help but thinking my first was the best. Afterwards I tried to read all of his works but none of them tasted like Sigma. Ben Hartman, son of a rich Jewish immigrant, is shot at and chased by what he had thought by an old friend in Zurich. [By the way this starts to happen just on page 6.] A rather haphazard chain of events lead him to a secretive organisation called the Sigma AG, a group of former Nazis and their industrialist collaboraters in the West who are responsible from shaping and directing global politics a la Bilderberg. In this endeavor Ben reveals certain truths about the past of his family and the metamorphosis that the Sigma is experiencing. Equally secretive Internal Compliance Unit of US govertment assigns a second generation Latina who later becomes Ben's girlfriend. The twist after twist after twist will simply mesmerize you. Just buy it!