This bit of junk-food from 1978 is worth a Credit.
Sure, it's silly, but giving your brain some candy now and again is healthy. This is a very good example of a Ludlum novel. The narration helps to immerse readers into the author's world.
I wish he had avoided accents (his German accents are brutal, for example), but the voice-acting is emotive and characters are instantly recognizable. His pacing is a little off, but his tone, timbre, and cadence are professional. Also fortunately, Rob Shapiro is an above-average reader. It's far from easy to suspend disbelief - but fans of Ludlum should be used to it - and the book is fast-paced enough to be quite entertaining if you can pull it off. I know, right? Fortunately, the writing is passable, the plot is "keep-you-guessing" sinuous, and the action is non-stop.
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The protagonist has to learn (on the fly) how to become a James Bond-style superspy and save the world. Meanwhile, other children of Nazis - secreted around the world and now grown up - are working to establish the Fourth Reich. A struggling New York architect finds out his father was a powerful Nazi who felt guilty and stole $780 Million from his fellows, leaving it to his biological child to distribute to victims of the Holocaust. Houston Chronicle on The Sigma Protocol Dazzling a clean launch of the 80s spy novel into a thrilling action/adventure web of intrigue meant for the 21st century. Sullivan County Democrat on The Sigma Protocol Vintage Ludlum. This book is laughably unrealistic - to be honest, it borders on ludicrous. The Midwest Book Review on The Sigma Protocol Ludlum at his best.