Sunday, October 12, 2025

1979's top book The Matarese Circle is Cold War-certified


I won't lie - I didn't love it, but found it fun in a nostalgic way as it read like the template of a fairly standard 80s spy thriller. The story just keeps on chugging along, never feeling like it's amounting to much beyond action set pieces, and if you were to stop in between chapters to think too much on it you might lose the momentum.

This is my first reading of a Ludlum book, although I'm a big fan of (most of) the Jason Bourne movies so I knew what kind of style I was getting into.

Wouldn't not recommend it, and I'm happy for what are surely loads of people who hang onto loving this bestseller, but it really only helped me to pass the time.

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