He is best known for his Bourne Trilogy, & prefer Tom Clancy, virtually all of his books use been commercially successful when non getting a critical plaudit observed by another writers of the genre, most notably John Le Carré.

He & Gayle Lynds created the Covert-One series, which include A Hades Factor, A Paris Guide, & A Altman Code. the series hero is Jon Smith, each the medical doctor & a U.S. Army officer redeployed to act by using the recently, extremely secret clandestine professional known as Covert-Of these.

Using a exception of occasional gaps inside his noesis of firearms, all of his novels come meticulously researched, replete by owning technical indicator details, physical & biological details, including locate in amnesia for The Bourne Identity. A few of his novels use been manufactured into films, including A Osterman Weekend, A Holcroft Covenant, Apocalypse View,A Bourne Identity, & A Bourne Supremacy. Of a lot that develop been translated onto screen, a Bourne series starring Matt Damon (The Bourne Identity & A Bourne Supremacy) has been a virtually all successful commercially & critically, though a films depart quite significantly from either a books. Around 1988, a mini-series adaptation of The Bourne Identity which is supplementary faithful to the book was freed. Ludlum executive produced a 2002 version. A Belgian laughable series XIII was loosely based on A Bourne Identity.

He died around 2001, allegedly by having many unpublished manuscripts of his books.

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Selected bibliography
(note this doesn't include everthing works written together by using more authors)

By Ludlum, Published Posthumously: The Ambler Warning (2005) The Tristan Betrayal (2003) The Janson Directive (2002) The Sigma Protocol (October, 2001)

Covert-Of these series: The Moscow Vector (co-written by Patrick Larkin) (2005) The Lazarus Vendetta (co-written by Patrick Larkin) (2004) The Altman Code (co-written by [[Gayle Lynds]) (2003) The Paris Option (co-written by Gayle Lynds) (2002) The Cassandra Compact (co-written by Phillip Shelby) (2001) The Hades Factor (co-written by Gayle Lynds) (2000)

By Ludlum, Published During the Author's Lifetime († March 2001)

The Prometheus Deception (2000) The Matarese Countdown The Apocalypse Watch (1995) The Matlock Paper (1993) The Scorpio Illusion(1993) The Road To Omaha (1992) The Bourne Ultimatum (1990) The Holcroft Covenant (1989) Trevayne (1989) The Icarus Agenda (1988) The Bourne Supremacy (1986) The Aquitaine Progression(1984) The Parsifal Mosaic (1982) The Bourne Identity (1980) The Matarese Circle (1979) The Gemini Contenders (1979) The Chancellor Manuscript (1977) The Road to Gandolfo (1975) The Rhinemann Exchange (1974) The Cry of the Halidon (1974) The Osterman Weekend (1972) The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971)

See Also
List of bestselling novels in the United States