The Chancellor Manuscript

Peter Chancellor, a self-made best-selling author, was being manipulated into a situation involving the infamous secret files held by J Edgar Hoover of the FBI. After Hoover’s death, Peter thought he could research into the various aspects of real-life characters to build his storyline of conspiracy. What he didn’t realize was that his every move was being led and misled by...more

Peter Chancellor, a self-made best-selling author, was being manipulated into a situation involving the infamous secret files held by J Edgar Hoover of the FBI. After Hoover’s death, Peter thought he could research into the various aspects of real-life characters to build his storyline of conspiracy. What he didn’t realize was that his every move was being led and misled by operatives within a secret group of elitists called Inver Brass. Ultimately, the group imploded and Peter was able to get to the identity of the mysterious member who had betrayed the group. The ending is unpredictable to the extent that it actually related to the struggle of the racial tension in US. Other than that, the plot within plot and the reversal conjecture were quite interesting in throwing off reader in different directions. The uninteresting bit is more on the fact that Ludlum tried too hard to make coincidences and to draw similarities between what the character set out as fiction and the real-life situation he was led into.   hide

currently i am bending my brain with this book.

Compelling reading. The story really comes together. Typical Ludlum, but that's why you read books like this!

This too is one of my best ludlum. Ludlum cant be human with the way he expresses himself in his books. Though its being said before and he denied it, i believe he was an agent until his death