The Ambler Warning

Date of Reading: 14/05/2007

Author: Robert Ludlum

Publisher: Readers Digest (selected editions)

Place: Australia

Year: 2006

Summary:

         Harrison Ambler is a patient in Parrish Island where the possessors of top government secrets are treated; but unlike the other patients he is completely sane. With the help of the nurse, Laurel Holland, he escapes but finds that the world won't recognise him anymore; and the face in the mirror is not his own. Records concerning his life are erased.

          He has worked before under the name Tarquin and joins the field again. His new assignment is to kill a man who is told to be dangerous to America; Laurel accompanies him. Ambler is a living lie detector and he finds the man innocent; but someone else does the murder.

           Finally with the help of Clay Caston CIA, he recovers his memory and finds out his rival Ellen Whitfield playing against. Her relationship with the notorious professor Ashton Palmer has come out to light due to Ambler.

          Couple's next target is Liu Ang, the Chinese President. On surveying the scene, his eyes locks into Laurel who looks to the camera in a different expression and it all becomes clear. He leaps on her and the bullet misses the aim. She was a method actress, one who can experience the very emotions she projects; this fooled Ambler till the last moment. She was responsible for the other murder too. Whitefield and Palmer are arrested and Ambler goes to spend some time with the Caston family.

Rating: Good