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The Bancroft Strategy
By Robert Ludlum
The author of The Bourne Identity, The Scarlatti Inheritance, and many more has died. The Bancroft Strategy manuscript was found after his death, and " The estate of Robert Ludlum has worked with a carefully selected author and editor to prepare and edit this work for publication."
That said , the Prologue is pure Ludlum. The setting was
East Berlin, 1987. Years later, the body of the novel begins. The relationship between Todd Belknap and Jared Rinehart was cemented in 1987 - many years pass before that friendship will affect Todd Belknap's very survival.
Both Belknap and Rinehart had been field agents for Consular Operations. When an operation fails Belknap is "cut loose" . Reinhart is abducted in Lebanon and the government refuses to act in any way to gain his release. Todd Belknap decides to investigate on his own.
At the same time, Andrea Bancroft receives a $12 million dollar inheritance from a Bancroft cousin she never met -on condition that she sit on the Board of the Bancroft family foundation. Andrea is a hedge fund analyst of modest means; her mother had been married to a Bancroft, but when they divorced she cut off all contact with the family. Andrea does not know the family members, but can't help becoming involved. Paul Bancroft, the patriarch takes her under his wing. Things transpire that begin to make her question the true objectives of the foundation - and who is Genesis?
This is a long story, but Todd Belknap and Andrea meet, and find working together might be the only way to unravel this puzzle!
Perhaps Robert Ludlum needed to be around to edit this story down to size, but since that was not an option I found the ending to be satisfying, and worth waiting for.
Published by: St. Martin's Press
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Copyright : © 2006 by Myn Pyn LLC
Reviewed by: Joan G. Smith, 10/15/07
Copyright : © 2007 by Joan G. Smith
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