"One of today's most prolific storytellers, Robert Ludlum™ continues to come up with more ideas and plot lines than he could ever fit into his hardcover projects. So, he decided to put some of his ideas into a new original trade paperback series".

"Entitled Covert-ONE, the series features a top-secret team of political and technical experts who fight corruption and conspiracy at the highest and most dangerous levels of society. The first book in the series, The Hades Factor, a collaboration between Ludlum™ and bestselling thriller writer Gayle Lynds, introduces Ludlum's™ most exciting continuing character since Jason Bourne Col. Jonathan Smith. The Cassandra Compact is a collaboration between Ludlum™ and writer Philip Shelby, which continues the adventures of Smith and his fellow Covert-ONE operatives. The third book in the series is The Paris Option, once again a collaboration between Ludlum™ and Gayle Lynds. The Altman Code, the fourth in the series, Smith to Taiwan to uncover the truth about a ship's true manifest and a terrifying international cabal with a sinister agenda. In the 5th book in the bestselling series, The Lazarus Vendetta, a mysterious anti-globalization, anti-technology group centered around the figure known as Lazarus is believed by some to preparing a bold strike. Covert-One operative Lt. Col. Jon Smith uncovers a deadly scheme that threatens billions of lives and will forever change the nature of the world itself. In The Moscow Vector, the sixth book in this series, written by Patrick Larkin Lt. Col. Jon Smith, in his role as a Covert-One operative, is dispatched to Prague to get Dr. Fiona Devin, an American scientist attached to the Department of Defense and her information safely back to the U.S."

Robert Ludlum was the author of over twenty-one novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series--The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum--among others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March, 2001.