The Matarese Circle

By Robert Ludlum,

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A former director of the KGB and the West's most professional assassin join forces against a common enemy, the Matarese Circle.

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1 author picked The Matarese Circle as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It’s too easy when reading Ludlum to get caught up in the Bourne Trilogy and overlook the author’s other great political thrillers. For me, The Matarese Circle best captures a theme that appears in most of Ludlum’s work – “We shouldn’t always trust our own intelligence community.”  

In The Matarese Circle, two disaffected covert agents—one American and one Soviet—team up to identify members of an international league of assassins bent on achieving world domination to promote commercial gain. This corpse-laden, globetrotting chase is one of Ludlum’s finest. 

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