The Paris Option

In Robert Ludlum's gripping thriller, The Paris Option, an explosion at Paris' prestigious Pasteur Institute sets off a high-stakes investigation when world-renowned computer scientist Emile Chambord goes missing. Although a terrorist group claims responsibility, intelligence agents suspect he has been kidnapped to divert attention from a potentially catastrophic innovation he was working on—a molecular computer that could become a deadly weapon. Covert-One agent Jon Smith, alongside MI5 and CIA operatives, races across Europe to unravel a complex conspiracy that poses a monumental threat to global security.