The Ambler Warning

A Novel

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

"Welcome to Robert Ludlum's world...fast pacing, tight plotting, international intrigue." (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

In Robert Ludlum's The Ambler Warning, an agent breaks out of a top security institution where the government has kept him drugged for years only to discover that he's not the person he thinks he is.

On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little known and never visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a danger to their own government, people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient.

One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there's one difference between Hal and the other patients - Hal isn't crazy. With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Hal manages to first clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then pulls off a daring escape. Free, he's out to discover who stashed him there and why - but the world he returns to isn't the one he remembers.

Friends and longtime associates don't remember him, there are no official records of Hal Ambler, and when he first sees himself in the mirror, the face that looks back at him is not the one he knows as his own.

©2005 Myn Pyn, LLC (P)2005 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC

Critic reviews

"Ludlum packs more suspense into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined." (The New York Times)

Ambler without a “Warning”

Story has technical statistical dialogues that run tangent to the story line that causes loss of interest. The story could easily be abridged by 1/3 to make it more interesting.

slow jumps all over

this book is slow in a lot of spots jumps all over the place not one of ludlums better titles tbh kept going to other books and coming back just to finish this bore

Captivating

The story was excellent but not to pick on the reader they should have sprung for a woman for some of the parts. He was fine with the male parts but he can't do a woman at all. I have to say I got less than half way through and I would stop the car and listen for a while.

Excellent

Awesome plot and performance. Keeps you guessing every minute. Very unpredictable open till the very end.

Almost like The Bourne identity

This is a story like The Bourne Identity about a cold blodded assasin who gets his memory erased and one day wakes up as a nice guy with all the cristian moral standards he never knew or cared about before, hmm. Story is ok but it is too long.

Rather exciting

One of the better books of the Audible Ludlum-series. Keeps you interested at least 2/3 of it's length.

Good read

The Ambler warning is vintage Ludlum, larger than life heroes, a complex plot, high level conspiracy and a twist in the tale. It's easy moving pace made it well suited to listening on the iPod while on those boring internal flights. Thoroughly enjoyable... although the use of the "epilogue" to tie up the loose ends was a disappointment - as if an editors deadline was approaching and Ludlum ran out of time to weave it in.

Summary: a good buy and a good listen

A comic thriller? Who'd-a think it.

There are some books that stay w/you - the standard by which all others of the genre will be judged. This is a great blend of a familiar Ludlum plot line with a hilarious new character. Think Jason Bourne w/a very funny side kick. I hope there's a sequel with this new guy.

Typical spy mystery

A good book but there seemed to be an unending "more of the same" pattern. The end was disappointing in that it ended quickly without full explanation. Almost like the writer got tired and wanted to get it over with. If you like suspense novels, you may enjoy it anyway.

Good book, bad narrator

The book was really good and would have recieved 5 stars had it not been for the narrator. This guy's voice just did not work for me, esecially after listening to other Ludlum books. If you can get past his nasal, feminine voice its a good book.