Genre

Action & Adventure

Format

Hardback

Title

The Bancroft strategy by Robert Ludlam

Todd Belknap, a legendary field agent for Consular operations with a reputation as a cowboy, is cut loose from the agency after an operation goes wrong. At the same time, Jared Reinhart, his best friend and fellow agent, is abducted in Lebanon by a militia group with a vicious reputation. When the government refuses to either rescue Reinhart or negotiate for his release, Belknap decides to take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, hedge fund analysis Andrea Bancroft gets a surprising call – she is to receive an unexpected request of $12 million from a cousin she never met, but with one condition: She must agree to sit on the board of the Bancroft family foundation, a charitable organization that is run by the family patriarch Paul Bancroft. Having never been involved with, or even met, the family – her mother was briefly married to a Bancroft and cut off all contact many years ago – Andrea is intrigued. But the foundation which is dedicated to doing strategic good deeds, appears less and less benign the more deeply involved she gets. What exactly is there involvement with the “Genesis,” a mysterious individual working to destabilize the political balance at the risk of millions of lives as events, escalate, Todd, Belknap, and Andrew Bancroft come together and must form an uneasy alliance, if they are to uncover the truth behind “Genesis“ – before it is too late.