Covert-One series
series of thriller novels written by several authors after the death of Robert Ludlum
The Covert-One series is a sequence of thriller novels initially by Robert Ludlum, and penned by several other authors after his death. The books feature a team of political and technical experts, belonging to a top-secret U.S. agency called Covert-One, who fight corruption, conspiracy, and bioweaponry at the highest levels of society.
List of books
The Hades Factor (with Gayle Lynds) (2000)
The Cassandra Compact (with Phillip Shelby) (2001)
The Paris Option (with Gayle Lynds) (2002)
The Altman Code (with Gayle Lynds) (2003)
The Lazarus Vendetta (with Patrick Larkin) (2004)
The Moscow Vector (with Patrick Larkin) (2005)
The Arctic Event (by James H. Cobb) (2007)
The Ares Decision (by Kyle Mills) (2011)
The Janus Reprisal (by Jamie Freveletti) (2012)
The Utopia Experiment (by Kyle Mills) (2013)
The Geneva Strategy (by Jamie Freveletti) (2015)
The Patriot Attack (by Kyle Mills) (2015)
Characters
Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Jonathan "Jon" Jackson Smith, M.D.: Jon Smith was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa, graduated from the University of Iowa, and attended medical school at the University of California at Los Angeles. His career is varied—a military doctor in MASH units, operative in military intelligence, and a troop commander. During the First Gulf War, he was a battlefield surgeon, and he served a short time in Somalia. In the opening book of the series, The Hades Factor, he is a research scientist with USAMRIID, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, located at Fort Detrick, Maryland. During his time there, he became engaged to another research scientist, Sophia Russell, who is murdered in The Hades Factor. At the end of the first novel, he's approached to join a brand-new, independent, highly secret agency called Covert-One.
Randi Russell: Randi is the younger sister of Dr.
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