Robert Ludlum collection

Published during the author's lifetime

1. The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971)
2. The Osterman Weekend (1972)
3. The Matlock Paper (1973)
4. Trevayne (1973) writing under the pen-name Jonathan Ryder
5. The Cry of the Halidon (1974) writing under the pen-name Jonathan Ryder
6. The Rhinemann Exchange (1974)
7. The Road to Gandolfo (1975) writing under the pen-name Michael Shepherd
8. The Gemini Contenders (1976)
9. The Chancellor Manuscript (1977)
10. The Holcroft Covenant (1978)
11. The Matarese Circle (1979)
12. The Bourne Identity (1980)
13. The Parsifal Mosaic (1982)
14. The Aquitaine Progression (1984)
15. The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
16. The Icarus Agenda (1988)
17. The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
18. The Road to Omaha (1992)
19. The Scorpio Illusion (1993)
20. The Apocalypse Watch (1995)
21. The Matarese Countdown (1997)
22. The Prometheus Deception (2000)


It took me a while to bring together Robert Ludlums early novels including the pseudonym titles.





All of these are First editions and First Printings.

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Ludlum explained the reason for his use of a pseudonym by saying he "had to publish Trevayne under another name. I chose Jonathan Ryder — the first name of one son, the second a contraction of my wife's maiden name — not because of potential retribution, but because the conventional wisdom of the time was that a novelist did not author more than a book a year. Why? Damned if I could figure it out. Something to do with 'marketing psychology', whatever the hell that is."

The Matarese Circle - 1979 1st/1st, Signed and dated by Ludlum

The book he is talking about is The Matarese Countdown published in 1997.

This one just arrived... it completes my Ludlum collection!

Title: The Road to Gandolfo
Author: Michael Shepherd (pseudonym)
Publisher: Dial Press
Copyright: 1975
Edition: First edition / 1st printing

Published with all three dust jackets