The Apocalypse Watch first edition cover.
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Author | Robert Ludlum |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller novel |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
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April 10, 1995 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) & Audiobook |
Pages | 480 pp (first edition) |
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OCLC | 60115623 |
The Apocalypse Watch (1995) is a novel by Robert Ludlum. A TV movie based on it aired in 1997 which starred Patrick Bergin and Virginia Madsen. This was Ludlum's second novel to focus on a neo-Nazi conspiracy to take over the world, after The Holcroft Covenant (1978).
The plot concerns Drew Latham, a special officer for consular operations, who must discover why his brother was killed after a covert mission. He impersonates his brother and uncovers a web of neo-Nazi supporters with members at high levels of the U.S. government and its allies. Latham must stop the neo-Nazis' plot to take over Europe through terrorism and biological warfare.
A running joke concerns the inability of the French to pronounce "Latham" correctly.