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 The Hades Factor byRobert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds A Covert One Novel St. Martin’s Press/Griffin 432 pages, June 2000 Reviewed by Susan McBride Read our interview with author Gayle Lynds Question: What can you expect when you add one part Robert Ludlum, the master of global intrigue, and one part Gayle Lynds, bestselling author of international thrillers? Answer: Entertainment. For those who love a lot of action, a plot about greedy scientists, and settings as varied as Baghdad, Washington, DC, and even an RV park outside New York, The Hades Factor is right up your alley. When a virus starts spreading across the globe and killing millions, no one can figure out what caused the pandemic, much less how to save the lives of those infected. Sophia Russell, a researcher at the US Army Medical facility in Maryland, is on the trail of the killer virus and thinks she’s found a link back to her days as a student doing work in Peru. She makes a phone call to confirm the possibility, and in a matter of hours, she’s dead. Her fiancé, Colonel Jon Smith, is shocked and infuriated by Sophia’s sudden death, especially when he finds out Sophia had been infected with the killer virus that had taken her life. Going AWOL from the Army, he digs up a cadre of devious friends from his past, including a computer genius with autism and a member of the British secret service, to investigate what happened to Sophia and what is causing the strange virus to spread so quickly around the world. Though I found some of the characters two-dimensional and the descriptions at times cliché, I had fun with The Hades Factor. This is pure guilty reading pleasure - and I’m obviously not alone. This successful Ludlum/Lynds production has hit both the USA Today and the New York Times bestsellers lists. This is the start of a new and ongoing series for St. Martin’s, and I’ve no doubt they’ll satisfy longtime Ludlum fans and bring new fans to Gayle Lynds. |
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