In Geneva, American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasnt seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death:The generals . . . theyre back . . . Aquitaine!Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the worlds most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought hed long left behind. One by one, he traces each thread of a lethal progression to the heart of every major government, a network of coordinated global violence that no one believes possibleno one but Converse and the woman he once loved and lost, the only two people on earth who can wrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine.Praise for Robert Ludlum andThe Aquitaine ProgressionYou wont be able to put it down. (Dont ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day).Chicago Sun-TimesLudlum at his best.Publishers WeeklyFrom the Paperback edition.