If you talked to Beethoven about where he created his music from, I don't think he'd know, and I don't think Bob could tell you either. We would also talk about how formulaic most modern-day thrillers were and he was so contemptuous of them. We were also into reversals, where you expect one thing and another happens. There's a sine wave to everything in the world, like stock markets, everything, and Bob and I saw that in a holistic way. He adds that Ludlum could be very curt and contemptuous, "but if you were a friend, you were a friend for life and he would do anything for you. "I realised that we were the only two contemporary thriller writers writing books with very strong characters." "Each part of a book is like a rollercoaster, where the next part is higher than the previous one," explains Van Lustbader. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in almost every country in the world, Robert Ludlums books have been enjoyed by hundreds of millions of readers, and are widely acknowledged as classics in the field. The operatives, such as Jason Bourne, the eponymous character from the books, also possessed a heightened awareness of their surroundings, lightning-fast reflexes, and other physical attributes.They talked endlessly about characterisation and plot and how to create a scenario. For 30 years, Robert Ludlums novels have set the standard for the finest in international intrigue and suspense.
They possessed proficiency in sharpshooting, explosives, vehicular operations, and hand-to-hand combat.
Treadstone operatives were highly trained in various killing techniques and the use of improvised weapons. The Treadstone headquarters is located in New York City in a seemingly dilapidated house. The program was so top-secret that several Deputy Directors of the CIA had and continue to have no idea of its existence. In the novels, it was formed after the Vietnam War. Treadstone71 used a behavior-modification program to break down the subjects’ morality to make them effective weapons. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes mind is planning his sons upcoming 5th birthday party. The program was formed in direct response to a Congressional Act that banned the US from partaking in assassinations. A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. Treadstone71 or Treadstone Seventy-One, per the novels, is a top-secret black ops program of the Central Intelligence Agency that recruited US Service members to turn them into nearly superhuman assassins.
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