Ludlum managed to combine the understandable interest of the average reader in the secrets and intrigues in the “corridors of power” with the biased love for the lone hero, characteristic of the American mentality, who, at his own peril and risk, enters into a fight against immeasurably superior forces - be it a drug trafficking syndicate , the powerful FBI, government agencies, or an international illegal organization plotting to establish a military dictatorship throughout the world. Ludlum attaches great importance to the detailed development of the environment against which his characters act. In general, this is not a background, but an actively functioning social and professional environment of independent interest - the world of gambling and drug business (“Matlock Paper”), the work of military-political intelligence (“Reinemann Exchange”), the system of the powerful illegal organization Inver- Brass, defying the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("Chancellor's Manuscript"), etc. Contents:1. Robert Ludlam: Rival Twins (Translation: O. Alyakrinsky)2. Robert Ludlum: The Matlock Paper (Translation: M. Brooke)3. Robert Ludlum: Janson's Directive (Translation: S. Saksin)4. Robert Ludlam: Holcroft's Testament (Translation: Sh. Kurtishvili)5. Robert Ludlum: The Aquitaine Conspiracy6. Robert Ludlam: Call of Khalidon (Translation: M. Shermakov)7. Robert Ludlam: Illusions of “Scorpions” (Translation: A. Romanov)8. Robert Ludlum: Parsifal's Mosaic (Translation: G. Kosov)9. Robert  Ludlum: The Scarlatti Legacy (Translation: Natalia Rudnitskaya, Alexander Repko)10. Robert Ludlum: Patrollers of the Apocalypse (Translation: E. Egorova, K. Ananichev)11. Robert Ludlum: Tristan's Betrayal (Translation: A. Grishin)12. Robert Ludlum: Ambler's Warning (Translation: S. Samuylov)13. Robert Ludlam: Sigma Protocol (Translation: K. Grishin, A. Grishin)14. Robert Ludlum: The Reinemann Deal (Translation: P. Novitsky)15. Robert Ludlum: Bancroft's Strategy (Translation: Sergei Saksin)16. Robert Ludlum: Trivane (Translation: P. Rubtsov)17. Robert Ludlam: Osterman's Weekend (Translation: E. Gritsenko, I. Gritsenko)18. Robert Ludlum: Prometheus's Trick (Translation: O. Stepashkin)