The Parsifal Mosaic

Robert Ludlum

Bantam Books, 1983 - Fiction - 692 pages

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

Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Parsifal Mosaic

"[Robert] Ludlum's narrative imagination is a force of nature."--The New York Times

"As fast-paced and absorbing as any he's written."--Newsday

"The suspense never lets up."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A crackling good yarn."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

About the author

Robert Ludlum was born May 25, 1927 in New York City. He enlisted in the Marines at the age of eighteen and received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1951. He began acting professionally at the age of sixteen in the 1943 Broadway production of Junior Miss. He also had roles in summer stock and appeared in over 200 television dramas for such live programs as Studio One and Kraft Television Theater. He then tried producing with the 1956 Broadway production of The Owl and the Pussycat. He took the play, four years later, to his creation of Shopping-Center Theater at Playhouse-on-the-Mall in Paramus, New Jersey. His first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, was published in 1971. His other works include The Matlock Paper, The Chancellor Manuscript, The Bourne Identity, The Scorpio Illusion, The Matarese Countdown, and The Bancroft Strategy. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. He died on March 12, 2001 at the age of 74.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Parsifal Mosaic; Bantam Books: Novel
• Author: Robert Ludlum
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Bantam Books, 1983
• ISBN: 0553252704, 9780553252705
• Length: 692 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Political; Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage; Fiction / Thrillers / General