THE PROMETHEUS DECEPTION, published only months before the (convoluted) events of September 11th 2001, basically offers a narrative blueprint for the entire 'war of terror' game.Ludlum lays out in this 'covert operations' book how to run a false flag Cyber War (a Surveillance War in the name of Corporate Profit and Total World Domination) where there is no real enemy but the ghostly figures who're set up for specific terrorist events around the world ... sound familiar to anyone?
The ultimate spy. After fifteen years as a brilliant master spy, Nick Bryson has disappeared into anonymity as a professor at an exclusive college in western Pennsylvania-- until he's suddenly lured back into the game.
The ultimate threat. Recruited by the CIA, he's been commissioned to track the moves of the Directorate. Once, the ultra-secret intelligence agency was Bryson's training ground. Now it's a multinational terrorist conspiracy bent on global domination.
The ultimate deception. But to eliminate the core of corruption means plunging into his own past, investigating the motives of a beautiful stranger who may be his greatest downfall, and infiltrating a secret nexus of power called Prometheus that holds the terrifying clues to his past-- and the even more terrifying possibilities of the future...
Robert Ludlum implied that his knowledge of the way the insanely convoluted covert and corporate world worked was specialist, if not voluminous. Ludlum was an amazing researcher and every paragraph is dripping with incidental detail you only miss when you read some of his 'franchise continuers'. Re-reading this book, hence the post.
Ludlum would surely have had 'quite a lot' to say about 9-11, and 7/7, had he survived the attempts on his life. A film of The Prometheus Deception would be a Cyber War Revelation.
