Product Description

Michael Havelock's world ended on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He stood by and watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karas, double agent, was coldly and efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There's nothing left for Havelock but to get out, quit the game. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railway platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. She's alive - and suddenly Havelock is a marked man, on the run from both US and Russian assassins. Racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist - Parsifal ...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17813 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 768 pages

About the Author
After a successful career in the theatre, Robert Ludlum launched his career as a best-selling writer with THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE in 1971, the first of twenty-two consecutive international bestsellers. Robert sadly passed away in March 2001.

Customer Reviews

Ludlum at his best!
I may be biased in as far as this was the first "Ludlum" novel i read but after reading this I couldn't wait to get my hands on somemore!! The story really moves along at a fair gallop & I found it really hard to put down.I have just finished re-reading it after 15 years & although some of the politics are now dated it was as good a read then as it is now. As in all Ludlum novels,he excells at getting you to identify/empathise with the main character ,in this case Michael Havelock.I also wonder if the main plot was based around real incident with a certain ex-president.All in all a must read!

For lovers of complex thrillers.
If you liked "The Bourne Identity" then you'll love this one.
The usual one man against incredible odds and fantastic conspiracies.
A great read. Good to see it being republished.

his best
I have read all Ludlum's books (except the posthumous ones) - this is my favourite, perhaps his best. There is also the "Gemini Contenders" (which gives Dan Brown's Code a run for its money by the way), but still "Parsifal" has that little thing that makes it more clever. Maybe the fact that you actually meet "Parsifal" in the middle of the book in a quite innocuous way, never thinking it might be him, and then at the end, lo and behold ! This moment is like Alice Starling ringing at the door and facing Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. This kind of perfect "this is so clever" emotion is scarce in books. In Parsifal Mosaic Ludlum manages this, this is why it is, in my view, his best.