““I’d heard time and time again after I wrote that book, ‘What about a sequel?’” said Ludlum during the same 1986 interview. I sprained my wrist turning his pages and didn’t notice until an hour later.” In 1978 critic John Leonard wrote in The New York Times that Ludlum “finds his characters on the back of cereal boxes, his prose in movie magazines, his sex in the want ads and his paranoia in our dental cavities.” However, he also stressed that Ludlum “stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined” and that he “pleases and seduces, telling his story like a man who must get it done before the house burns down around us. Ludlum’s novels are fast-paced thrillers filled with intrigue and action meticulously researched but accessible and easy-to-read. In fact, alongside the likes of authors like Michael Crichton, Arthur Hailey, Clive Cussler, and Tom Clancy he really helped define the genre. The Birth of BourneRobert Ludlum was a master of airport fiction. “That was the genesis of The Bourne Identity.” Ludlum had promised his wife he wouldn’t sit down and start another book for a few weeks, but the idea was irresistible. “I put the two germs of thought together and thought, supposing a man was after Carlos the Jackal and lost his memory, by going into deep cover,” Ludlum told journalist Don Swaim during a 1986 interview. It turned out Ludlum had suffered a case of transient global amnesia and lost 12 hours of his life.
Confused, Ludlum insisted he was never informed of the meeting, though his accountant explained he’d been with Ludlum at his home the previous day and they had talked about it. “Three days later, while having coffee in his Connecticut home, Ludlum fielded a call from his accountant confirming he expected Ludlum at 11 at his office in New York.
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