Discount Price: $9.99
Price fluctuation possible.
How soon does it ship: Normal ship time within one day
Shipping? Absolutely FREE if you qualify for Super Saver Shipping.
Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312990695
ISBN number: 0312990693
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 640
Printing Date: October 31, 2006
Publishing house: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 153385
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state—and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there’s one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients—Ambler isn’t crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out who put him there, and uncover the truth of who he was…and why someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
-
This book is absolutely horrible. I have read many Ludlum novels and while they are all over the top with reagards to the superhero powers of their main characters, they are entertaining. This one is NOT.
It centers around Harrison Ambler who is held in a government psychiatric hospital, escapes in the very first chapter and then proceeds to discover that he does not exist. It's a slight twist on the Bourne idea. In this case, Ambler remembers who he is, but there is no record of him anywhere; even his face is not recognizable to himself. Ambler then goes on for the rest of the book trying to find out who he really is.
The story bounces back and forth among various parties (Ambler, the Chinese, the assasin) with no real congruity. I am constantly asking "what the heck is going on?". I have been listening to the story on CD and I sometimes blank out on entire chapters and find it makes no difference. There is no real "goal" or mission that Ambler is on other than trying to find out who he really is. And I think that is precisely what makes the story so boring. No path. No direction.
Skip this one. It simply is not worth the effort.
Rated by buyers -
This is the very first book I didn't finish. I always finish books, slightly feeling like I can't read a different book until I read the one I've started. But there's a very first for everything.
The Ambler Warning starts out with Ambler in some kind of mental hospital/prison where he has been for about 4 years, never interacting with anyone but doctors and some nurses. His memory is now pretty shaky and he hasn't even seen his own face during this time. He's been put here as some kind of cover-up that only Ludlum can imagine. He conveniently makes friends with the medication nurse who helps him escape. True to Ludlum style, Ambler finds this nurse after he escapes and they run off together (after she throws herself at him) on an adventure to discover his past, who sent him to the mental hospital, why was he sent there, and how he's going to clear his name. Of course, the two shack up together (I have serious problems with how Ludlum writes women in his all of his books, but that's a whole other problem.) While Jason Bourne is the "chameleon", Ambler has the "super power" of observation. **That is the only really cool thing about this book.** He can "see" if someone is lying. He can "see" through people. Is this why he was locked up? memory changed? appearance changed?
The sequence of events are all too convenient. Anytime Ambler or someone else is close to seeing that "Wow, Ambler has been set up" they get killed. I read the very first 3/4 of the book. I only read that much just because I wanted to see how it ended and to just see it end. But, I was just board with it. The book could have easily been half the size and it would have been a much better book. Ludlum just fills the book with so much that when Ambler "discovers" certain facts, the reader already saw this coming forever ago. The "twist" that everyone talks about was so obvious--I asked my husband who had read it if I was correct, and was. Then I put the book down and moved.
Rated by buyers 
-
I thought this book was pretty cool. I wanted to be the main character or at least have his abilities. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to a friend. I might even keep it and read it again someday.
Rated by buyers -
I bought this thinking it was, at the very least, an unfinished Ludlum novel. Boy was I disappointed! I had no idea 'authors', who are either in witness protection or too ashamed to use their real names, were allowed to peddle books using Ludlum's good name??? Aside from the cliched opening escape and the highly predictable ending, the author of 'The Ambler Warning' seems to want to impress his/her readers by using dozens upon dozens of the most obscure and arcane words he/she can find in his/her thesaurus. Now I have a pretty good vocabulary, but having to put this book down every 10-15 minutes to look up words just made the reading experience annoying. I, for one, will not read/purchase another novel not written by the master himself!
Rated by buyers 
-
I'm enjoying the audio version of this novel. The narrator (Scott Sowers) has a pleasant voice and he isn't bad at the foreign accents or women's voices. I don't expect an audio book to be "performed"- but just read well, so I'm satisfied. My main complaint so far isn't due to the narrator. The writer uses the same phrases way too many times: "It was madness!", "Madness!", and so on. Not my favorite, but I'd probably listen to it again.
Find other books like this one:
