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American investment banker Ben Hartman arrives in Zurich for a ski holiday, the first time he's been back to Switzerland since his twin brother died there in a tragic accident four years earlier. But his arrival in Zurich triggers something far more sinister than his brother's fate. When Ben chances upon Jimmy Cavanaugh, an old college friend, Cavanaugh promptly pulls out a gun and tries to kill him. In a matter of minutes, several innocent bystanders are dead - as well as Cavanaugh - and Ben has barely managed to survive. Plunged into an unspeakable nightmare, Hartman suddenly finds himself on the run. Department of Justice field agent Anna Navarro is being stalked around the world by a relentless killer, managing to survive the killer's attacks only by a combination of luck, skill and her own quick wits. These attacks are somehow related to her current assignment: investigating the sudden - and seemingly unrelated - deaths of a number of very old men throughout the world. The only thing that connects them is a file in the CIA archives, over a half-century old, marked with the same puzzling code word: SIGMA. But someone or something is always seemingly one step ahead of her, the survivors are rapidly dwindling, and her own life is in ever increasing danger. Brought together by accident, Ben and Anna soon realize that their only hope of survival lies with each other. Together they race to uncover the diabolical secrets long hidden behind the code word, Sigma. Secrets that threaten everything they think they know about themselves, everything they believed true about their friends and families, and everything they were ever taught about history itself. For behind Sigma lies a vast deception that is finally coming to fruition and the fate and future of the world is in their hands.… (more)
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Of course Ben Hartman, an Ivy League pretty boy has all the innate skill to defeat international assassins. He is always more alert than he should have been and spots trouble before it begins. As if any normal person would behave this way. And of course, in the end they have to get away in a helicopter and having had one lesson where the pilot did most of the work, he can get them off the mountain and safe. Or so they think, there is a stow-away passenger who then tries to kill them. They defeat him of course. By this time, they are sleeping together and are now engaged to be married. How quaint.
The narrator was awesome I have to say. Every character (well almost, some of the Austrians sounded the same) sounded different. He can do French accents, mild Georgia southern accents, Austrian, Swiss, Paraguayan – you name it. He was excellent. Made it much more interesting to listen to than it would have been to read – it also gave some things away that wouldn’t have been so apparent in the printed version. There were some places where they heard just a voice before seeing the person and this narrator gave them their original accents so I could tell who they were. If I had been reading the book, I probably wouldn’t have caught it so soon.