The Gemini Contenders
1939, Salonika Greece: In the dead of a December night, a clandestine order of monks desperately transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The trip is planned by a secret benefactor. The monks will murder and suicide to keep their secret. The sinister cache, concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world.
Decades pass: The order, killer Nazis, governments, and assassins chase the Italian magnate and family across continents.
1970ish: Dying father assigns search to his twin sons. The liberal lawyer and killer soldier oppose each other to the death. Murders follow them from Vietnam and American States to the mountains of Italy.
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Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Timesbestseller. There are more than 225 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.

