The Icarus Agenda

The Icarus Agenda

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name = The Icarus Agenda
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image_caption = " The Icarus Agenda" first edition cover.
author = Robert Ludlum
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Thriller novel
publisher = Random House
release_date = February 22, 1988
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 677 pp "(first edition)"
isbn = ISBN 0394543971
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"The Icarus Agenda" is a 1988 thriller novel by bestselling author Robert Ludlum. It is the sequel to The Chancellor Manuscript.

Plot introduction

Evan Kendrick is a U.S. Congressman from a remote Western Colorado district. As a former building contractor in the Middle East, he is close friends with the Sultan of Oman. He returns to Oman under deep cover when the U.S. Embassy in Masqat is taken by terrorists. During his time undercover he unmasks a far-reaching terror network aimed at controlling the economies and governments of the Middle East.

Plot summary

A few years before, a tragic "accident" left him with 78 less friends. The only loved-one left was Emmanuel "Manny" Weingrass, a world-renowned architect and a somewhat impossible person. In his first year in Congress, there is an uprising in Masqat - a hostage taking. The events remind him of a man known as The Mahdi whom Weingrass said was the reason for the deaths of his 78 friends. He goes to Oman for revenge and comes back victorious. The Mahdi dead and a tragedy averted. A year later, the Inver Brass - an organization secretly controlling the U.S. of A. who had been tracking him ever since he went on the Oman operation through a specially gifted ICT specialist, exposes the truth of Kendrick being involved in Masqat and they reveal this to the world to have Kendrick as Vice-President of the U.S.A. because they consider him to be morally incorruptible. After the revealing, lives are lost and friendships broken, Kendrick is desperately looking for the people who are responsible for turning his life upside-down. But unknown to the Inver Brass there is a traitor in their midst... and this might just be the last straw... Codename Icarus is the last hope to a nation and to a world.The organisation was first mentioned in his 1977 novel The Chancellor Manuscript and is also mentioned in his later novel"The Bancroft Strategy"

Characters in "The Icarus Agenda"

*Evan Kendrick – US congressman and main protagonist
*Emmanuel "Manny" Weingrass – architect
*The Mahdi
*The Sultan of Oman
*Khalela

Cultural References

*Harry Burns is reading this book in the film When Harry Met Sally... when Sally calls him on the phone about her ex-boyfriend getting married.

Publication history


*1988, US, Random House ISBN 0394543971, Pub date February 22, 1988, Hardback
*1988, US, Bantam Books ISBN 055317326X, Pub date March 1, 1988, Paperback
*1988, UK, Grafton ISBN 0246125748 Pub date March 24, 1988, Hardback
*1998, UK, HarperCollins ISBN 0586064559, Pub date June 15, 1998, Paperback

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