Now Ludlum's two wayward heroes return with a diabolical scheme to right a very old wrong - and wreak vengeance on the (expletive deleted) who drummed the hawk out of the military. Overall, I enjoyed this much less than his first book of this 'series'.In The Road To Gandolfo, Robert Ludlum introduced us to the outrageous General MacKenzie Hawkins and his legal wizard, Sam Devereaux, whose plot to kidnap the Pope spun wildly out of control into sheer hilarity.

Would have enjoyed a little more involvement from ' the girls'. The other parts of the books could have been shorter in order to make the climatic scenes seem less rushed. I was, however, overjoyed that Miss Redwing and her brother Charlie were both Lawyers in a time when many Native Americans were denied a Higher Education! The final Courthouse scene was rushed. As a Native American I was horribly insulted by it! I realize that he was trying to express the times, but Holy COW! For someone who was trying to help, Hawk was as insulting as the Government employees! And I was terribly surprised that Miss Redwing did not put him in his place! Instead, she seem to concentrate her ire on poor Sam who had nothing to do with the actions! (That is until she improbably fell in love with Sam). It really took me a lot longer to get through it. I did enjoy this book, but it did seem to 'drag' just a little more than Road to Gandolfo. The Bourne movies, starring Matt Damon in the title role, have been commercially and critically successful ( The Bourne Ultimatum won three Academy Awards in 2008), although the story lines depart significantly from the source material. A non-Ludlum book supposedly inspired by his unused notes, Covert One: The Hades Factor, has also been made into a mini-series. Some of Ludlum's novels have been made into films and mini-series, including The Osterman Weekend, The Holcroft Covenant, The Apocalypse Watch, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.

Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series- The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum-among others. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller.

The Road to Omaha by Robert Ludlum