Books
May, 1982
Robert Ludlum rides in the lead of the Four Terse Men of the Apocalypse (the others being Ken Follett, Lawrence Sanders and Trevanian); all four nudge their characters through various varieties of undercover overkill and sell more books than McDonald's sells McBurgers. Ludlum, however, has generally done it better than the rest. In The Parsifal Mosaic (Random House), he spins spy Michael Havelock--a confused but terribly earnest shock absorber--through a grand orchestration of plot complication...
