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Novel by Robert Ludlum

The Icarus Agenda is a thriller novel by bestselling author Robert Ludlum.^[1] It is the sequel to The Chancellor Manuscript.

Plot introduction

Evan Kendrick is a U.S. Congressman from a remote Western Colorado district.

As a former building contractor in the Middle East, he is close friends with the Sultan of Oman.

1988 novel robert ludlum biography Robert Ludlum (–) was an American author of twenty-seven novels between and , the last being issued five years after his death. [1] Of his twenty-seven novels, two were originally published under the pseudonym of Jonathan Ryder and another under the pseudonym of Michael Shepherd.

He returns to Oman under deep cover when the U.S. Embassy in Muscat is taken by terrorists. During his time undercover he unmasks a far-reaching terror network aimed at controlling the economies and governments of the Middle East.

Plot summary

A few years before, a tragic "accident" left him with 78 fewer friends. The only loved-one left was Emmanuel "Manny" Weingrass, a world-renowned architect and a somewhat impossible person.

In his first year in Congress, there is an uprising in Masqat—a hostage taking. The events remind him of a man known as The Mahdi whom Weingrass said was the reason for the deaths of his 78 friends. He goes to Oman for revenge and comes back victorious.

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The Mahdi dead and a tragedy averted. A year later, the inheritors of Inver Brass—the resurrected group of influential people, destroyed in the events of the Chancellor Manuscript, who had been tracking him ever since he went on the Oman operation through a specially gifted computer specialist, exposes the truth of Kendrick being involved in Masqat and they reveal this to the world to have Kendrick as Vice President of the USA, because they consider him to be morally incorruptible.

After the revealing, lives are lost and friendships broken, Kendrick is desperately looking for the people who are responsible for turning his life upside-down. But unknown to the Inver Brass there is a traitor in their midst.

G. P. Putnams Sons The Icarus Agenda is a thriller novel by bestselling author Robert Ludlum. [1] Pub date February 22, , Hardback; , US, Bantam Books ISBN.

Codename Icarus is the last hope to a nation and to a world. The organisation was first mentioned in his novel The Chancellor Manuscript and is also mentioned in his later novel The Bancroft Strategy.

Characters in "The Icarus Agenda"

• Evan Kendrick &#; US congressman and protagonist
• Emmanuel "Manny" Weingrass &#; architect
• The Mahdi
• The Sultan of Oman
• Khalehla

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