Tuesday, May 1, 2012

(924) The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum

Is there a spear that would penetrate anything? Or is there a shield that nothing could penetrate?

Harrison Ambler is a human lie detector. But there is a great actress who fell into her role so well that even Ambler could not detect her lie. As Ambler was able to discern in time and prevented her from shooting a world statesman down, the plot that a group took years to set up tumbled into shambles. More than that, a desk jockey from the back office of CIA wired the inner office into a TV studio with the help of his assistant from stateside, the bad guys' evil plot was openly broadcast to conference attendees.

Life as FBI or CIA agents have always been depicted as exciting and glamorous. But when Ambler was caught as confined in a secret psychiatric facility, he became an ex-agent with no past. It made an interesting read in how he worked against the system and finally could become himself again, when the higher-up guilty party fell.

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