The Matarese Countdown

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name = The Matarese Countdown
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image_caption = "The Matarese Countdown" first edition cover.
author = Robert Ludlum
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country = United States
language = English
series = "The Matarese Dynasty"
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genre = Thriller novel
publisher = Bantam Books
pub_date = October 13, 1997
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 496 pp "(first edition)"
isbn = ISBN 0553106678
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preceded_by = The Matarese Circle
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"The Matarese Countdown" is a espionage thriller novel by Robert Ludlum. It is the sequel to the The Matarese Circle.

Like the legendary phoenix, the Materese are rising from the ashes and are regaining their former power.The new leader of the Matarese is an enigmatic figure named Jan van der Meer Matareisen, according to himself the only legitimate grandchild of Baron Guillaume de Matarese, the founder of the Matarese group.With the help of another shadowy figure known as Julian Guiderone a.k.a. "son of the shepherd boy," who seems to have survived the events recounted in "The Matarese Circle" nearly twenty years ago, they are hatching a new and diabolical plot to plunge the civilised world into total chaos.

Only one man, a CIA operative known as Brandon Scofield a.k.a. Beowulf Agate, can stop them, but he has been retired for nearly twenty years. Brandon Scofield is once again sent into the field together with a CIA case officer Cameron Pryce but this time the enemy is more dangerous.