Trevayne
Trevayne is Robert Ludlum's fourth novel, published in 1973 under the pseudonym Jonathan Ryder.[1]
The novel centers around an independent and headstrong tycoon who reluctantly accepts an appointment from the President of the United States to head a subcommission to investigate malfeasance and rampant corruption committed by contractors and subcontractors with the Pentagon. The investigation quickly unearths dangerous truths.
The book was later reissued under Ludlum's proper name. Ludlum explained the reason for his use of a pseudonym by saying he "had to publish Trevayne under another name. I chose Jonathan Ryder — the first name of one son, the second a contraction of my wife's maiden name — not because of potential retribution, but because the conventional wisdom of the time was that a novelist did not author more than a book a year. Why? Damned if I could figure it out. Something to do with 'marketing psychology', whatever the hell that is."
This novel is the only Ludlum novel without the word "The" in the title.
References
- ^ "Trevayne". Kirkus Reviews. 1 January 1972. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
External links
- Trevayne at the Internet Archive
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- The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971)
- The Osterman Weekend (1972)
- The Matlock Paper (1973)
- Trevayne (1973)
- The Cry of the Halidon (1974)
- The Rhinemann Exchange (1974)
- The Road to Gandolfo (1975)
- The Gemini Contenders (1976)
- The Chancellor Manuscript (1977)
- The Holcroft Covenant (1978)
- The Parsifal Mosaic (1982)
- The Aquitaine Progression (1984)
- The Icarus Agenda (1988)
- The Road to Omaha (1992)
- The Scorpio Illusion (1993)
- The Apocalypse Watch (1995)
- The Prometheus Deception (2000)
- The Sigma Protocol (2001)
- The Janson Directive (2002)
- The Tristan Betrayal (2003)
- The Ambler Warning (2005)
- The Bancroft Strategy (2006)
- The Bourne Identity (1980)
- The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
- The Matarese Circle (1979)
- The Matarese Countdown (1997)
- Covert-One series
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