Janson Directive

JANSON DIRECTIVE: Robert Ludlum: St Martin's Press: 2002: Fiction: 547 pages

Full of suspense, calculating maneuvers and intrigue this is trademarked Ludlum book. Paul Janson, former covert operative, now retired and working as a private security executive is "stranded, abandoned, and marked for murder by his old colleagues when he manages to survive an unsurvivable mission." The mission...rescue Peter Novak the internationally renowned philanthropist and statesman from the same terrorists who killed his own wife. After the successful rescue, Janson watches in shock as the plane carring Novak explodes. No one could have survived or could they? Quickly Janson becomes the target of someone's hit list, but who's and why? I listended to the audio version with an excellent Paul Michael as the reader but it took 3 discs before I could get into the story. This book is not for the squimish. Bodies pile up at every turn most graphically described on how how they came to be in that condidition. Language abounds. Janson's constant flashbacking to the Vietnam war made keeping plots straight a challenge. I just wanted the story to stick to the main plot, but if you are a Ludlum fan you will enjoy.

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