"Robert Ludlum," wrote Colin Harrison in the New York Times Magazine, "whose novels have sold 290 million copies (more or less the population of the United States), knew what makes a successful thriller. And that, above all, is velocity." Pages do not si...

Robert Ludlum (born 1927) is a prolific author of best-selling spy and thriller novels noted for their complicated plots and high-powered suspense. The diverse settings and time periods are embellished by his protagonists, who are ordinary people either...

Suspense novelist Robert Ludlum "has his share of unkind critics who complain of implausible plots, leaden prose, and, as a caustic reviewer once sneered, an absence of 'redeeming literary values to balance the vulgar sensationalism,'" Susan Baxter and M...

Charles T. Holcroft incorporated Holcroft and Company in the year 1916 in Detroit, Mich., to build open-hearth melting furnaces, annealing furnaces, and core ovens. Holcroft was an early pioneer in development of atmosphere-type furnaces. Holcroft moved to the current facility in Livonia, Mich.,...

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[With "The Holcroft Covenant"] Robert Ludlum is back among the Nazis for his new conspiracy. The Nazis stand, of course, for unambiguous evil. It is a relief to be rid of ambiguity, which is an inflated currency in literature as in life. Solid evil, black gold, can be relied on. The good guys will be very, very good; and bad guys will be very, very bad; and everybody in between will be either a dupe or a victim. Instead of having to think, we will be tortured with surprises. Mr. Ludlum stuffs ...