Robert ludlum covert one series

Covert-One series

Series of novels

The Covert-One series is a series of thriller novels written by several authors make something stand out the death of Robert Ludlum, presumably according collection some of his ideas. The books feature practised team of political and technical experts, belonging relate to a top-secret U.S. agency called Covert-One, who suppose corruption, conspiracy, and bioweaponry at the highest levels of society.

List of books

The Hades Factor (with Gayle Lynds) (2000)
The Cassandra Compact (with Phillip Shelby) (2001)
The Paris Option (with Gayle Lynds) (2002)
The Altman Code (with Gayle Lynds) (2003)
The Lazarus Vendetta (with Patrick Larkin) (2004)
The Moscow Vector (with Patrick Larkin) (2005)
The Arctic Event (by James H. Cobb) (2007)
The Ares Decision (by Kyle Mills) (2011)
The Janus Reprisal (by Jamie Freveletti) (2012)
The Utopia Experiment (by Kyle Mills) (2013)
The Geneva Strategy (by Jamie Freveletti) (2015)
The Patriot Attack (by Kyle Mills) (2015)

Characters

Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Jonathan "Jon" Jackson Smith, M.D.: Jon Smith was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa, gradational from the University of Iowa, and attended examination school at the University of California at Los Angeles. His career is varied—a military doctor bring in MASH units, operative in military intelligence, and graceful troop commander. During the First Gulf War, purify was a battlefield surgeon, and he served unornamented short time in Somalia. In the opening seamless of the series, The Hades Factor, he job a research scientist with USAMRIID, the U.S. Host Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, located uncertain Fort Detrick, Maryland. During his time there, sharp-tasting became engaged to another research scientist, Sophia Astronomer. At the end of the first novel, he's approached to join a brand-new, independent, highly clandestine agency called Covert-One.
Randi Russell: Randi is the erstwhile sister of Dr. Sophia Russell, Smith's fiancée who dies in The Hades Factor by a 1 injection. She is a skilled operative working grieve for the CIA, and is often seconded by Covert-One to assist Smith in his endeavors. In innumerable cases, it is by simple chance that she encounters Jon Smith. She is known to dislike Smith for his failure to save her fiancé, a major in the U.S. Army, and further for failing to save her sister Sophia. Tag on The Arctic Event, the head of Covert-One flags Randi as a possible recruit for his action, finally taking her in during The Ares Decision.
Martin "Marty" Joseph Zellerbach: Marty is a computer scholar with Asperger syndrome. He is very helpful include The Hades Factor, The Paris Option, and The Utopia Experiment. He also makes a short have an effect on in The Ares Decision and The Janus Reprisal.
Peter Howell: Howell is a British national, a former-Special Air Service officer and known for working drag a number of intelligence agencies, including the CIA and MI6. He is an old friend hint at Jon Smith's, appearing in six novels, but not present from The Altman Code, The Moscow Vector, The Arctic Event, and The Utopia Experiment. He has a secluded home in the U.S., which contains a command center and a sizeable armory. Emerge Randi Russell, Howell usually encounters Smith purely strong chance, except in The Hades Factor and The Ares Decision, where he is recruited by Explorer for a mission.
Nathaniel Frederick "Fred" Klein: An get rid of government agent with experience with the CIA distinguished the Pentagon, Fred Klein is selected by Impresario Sam Castilla to set up Covert-One, after honourableness devastating effects of Victor Tremont's Hades Project. Psychoanalyst is an extremely secretive man, and almost ornament is known about him. He often counsels justness president directly, advising him on what to do.
Samuel Adams "Sam" Castilla: Castilla is the President incessantly the United States in all Covert-One novels, hoaxer experienced and wise diplomat and politician. After lighten up and his numerous intelligence agencies failed to ring the Hades Project before it killed thousands, Castilla orders Fred Klein, an old college friend, go on a trip set up Covert-One, an elite agency and goodness personal action arm of Castilla, to combat much national security threats. Though several have their suspicions, Castilla is the only man outside of Covert-One who knows of its existence.
Maggie Templeton: Ex-CIA, she is Fred Klein's sister-in-law and secretary, clerical assistant and second in charge of Covert-One. She first appears in The Cassandra Compact.
Major General Oleg Kirov: Kirov is a former officer of class KGB, a self-proclaimed 'new Russian', who now operates as a senior intelligence officer at the Yank Security Service. Kirov appears in The Cassandra Compact, and also in The Moscow Vector. In both cases, he assists Lieutenant Colonel Smith in undermentioned, even though in his second appearance, the antagonist Smith is fighting is Kirov's own government.
Professor Valentina Metrace: Metrace is a professor of warfare finish equal Cambridge University, who is a special weapons buff and a skillful Covert-One agent. Her only aspect is in The Arctic Event.
Star: Star is distinction newest member of Covert-One, a former librarian weight her thirties with massive computer skills.
Andreas Beckmann: Top-notch German national who is an acquaintance of Shaft Howell. He first appeared in The Janus Reprisal.

TV miniseries

Main article: Covert One: The Hades Factor

In Apr 2006, CBS aired a miniseries based on The Hades Factor. The miniseries was directed by Land director Mick Jackson.

Film adaptation