In The Cry of the Halidon Ludlum effortlessly adopts and adapts all the cliches of a trashy thriller. His narration resembles a downhill race, with the minimum attention to grace and style in an effort to generate the maximum amount of speed and thrill. On the other hand, there is no question that, however obliquely, his novel generates a lot of interesting questions, although almost entirely in terms of theme and social concern, rather than literary or narrative technique. In forming your response to this bestselling book you may wish to consider the following questions.
1. Do you feel that by reading The Cry of the Halidon you have learned anything about the work, technique, and strategies, of real-life intelligence agents?
2. Did you find these central premises of the novel believable: -a worldwide.....
This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 375 words. This
Short Guide contains 5,478 words (approx. 18 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Short Guide with our The Cry of the Halidon Access Pass.
