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The Ambler Warning: A Novel
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16 hrs and 59 mins
Audible Release Date
10-06-05
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3.78 based on 604 ratings
 

Publisher's Summary

On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric states 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 clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then pulls off a daring escape. Now he's out to discover who stashed him here 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

What the Critics Say

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

Customer Reviews

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Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0 "Good except for the politics"
By: Susan (Cumming, GA, USA)
February 05, 2010
Pretty good listen overall. When it stuck on plot it was really good and I would have given it much higher. It could use about 2-3 hrs worth or politics removed that had little to no bearing on the story overall.
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Rating 2.0Rating 2.0Rating 2.0Rating 2.0Rating 2.0 "Spend your money elsewhere"
By: Scott (USA)
January 31, 2009
Spend your money elsewhere, this is a ghost written book in the Ludlum name and the writer must have been paid by the word. Huge long rambling passages read by a marginal reader. The books pace is slow and plodding and more importantly the characters are not well developed as they shift and change in how they act, think, and behave frequently. The plot is predictable after the first few chapters and the twist at the ending doesn't even come as a surprise. There is nothing to challenge the reader in this novel what so ever. If this had not been written as part of the "Ludlum" franchise it would be taking up space in trash can of an editor. Perhaps if you could find an abridged version of this novel it might decrease the suffering enough to at least be palatable.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful:
Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0 "Great Story"
By: E A (Ransomville, NY, USA)
October 02, 2008
I would have given this 5 stars if it weren't for the reader. His single voiced style could put an insomniac to sleep. The story itself is great. Typical Ludlum, with lots of action and twists, but as I said, you have to concentrate not to let you mind wander
1 of 3 people found this review helpful:
Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0 "Ambling "
By: Michael (Australia)
July 30, 2008
The story is intricate and compelling, but even though I know it is ficition,there is a problem , a part of one characters story that sticks out as not being tied in , just sticks in your mind throughout the story, see if you can pick it.
otherwise I enjoyed it
5 of 5 people found this review helpful:
Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0Rating 3.0 "The Ambler Warning"
By: Louise (Edmonton, Canada)
March 25, 2008
A typical Ludlum, fast paced and exciting and because of that a lack of reality. The audio was quite good but the narrator lacked the ability to make the different characters stand out through their different voices. This genre works best in books, then on film and less so on audio tape in my view. It did help me get through long drives across the southern U.S. deserts!

Are there really people who are as skilled and knowledgeable as Hal Ambler? The "Jason Bourne" type character has been well used by Ludlum albeit highly successfully. I still rate the Gemini Contenders as my first and favourite Ludlum and one of my favourite books of all time but that judgment was made many moons ago when the genre was all quite fresh and new!
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