The Parsifal Mosaic (1982)

Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karas, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna -- alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist -- PARSIFAL.

"Mr. Ludlum's narrative imagination is a force of nature." -- New York Times

"Quite clearly the best writing Ludlum has ever done ... Rare is the reader who won't burn late-night electricity finishing this one." -- Denver Post

"Nonstop action, precisely timed curtain-raisers, the darksome deeds of agent and double agent, a deadly secret ultimately revealed and an underlying theme of the whole world jeopardized by a few fanatics." -- Publishers Weekly

"Lavish...Mesmerizing...Byzantine plotting, constant action, treason in high places ... Ludlum comes on stream again with a sheer outpouring of raw narrative."

-- The Buffalo News