Then I saw one of his books mention Salonika in the summary page on amazon.com. On a whim, I googled "robert ludlum dahomey" and got a hit. And I kept getting hits for the most of the other locations. This list may be incomplete and some may be incorrect, please let me know if you see something I missed.
- Dahomey- The Janson Directive
- Salonika- The Gemini Contenders (another drifting twins reference?)
- Calais (Pas de Calais)- The Gemini Contenders, The Tristan Betrayal, The Prometheus Deception, The Sigma Protocal
- Ypres- no mention that I can find yet
- NV- Nevada in The Aquitane Progression
- Taranaki- no mention, but I did find a Ludlum's Valley in New Zealand. New Zealand does make an appearance in The Matarese Circle
- Odessa- The Odessa File
- Galway- despite numerous mentions of Ireland and Irish in several of Ludlum's books, no action takes place there in any of his books. Is that why nothing happened in Galway 1831?
- Bijapur- The Bourne Objective takes place in the capital city, Bangalore, of Karnataka. Bijapur can be found in Karnataka, too
- Adana- no mention, but Turkey can be found in four of the Bourne novels and in The Hades Factor
- Rio Negro- The Sigma Protocol
- Barkol- no mention that I can find yet
- Tangier- The Janson Directive mentions Tangier Island, Virginia
- B___- mentions a "B-team" in The Lazarus Vendetta
- Los Angeles- The Lazarus Vendetta
- Tripoli- The Prometheus Deception, The Hades Factor, The Janson Directive
- Berlin/Danzig- Berlin in The Scarletti Inheritance
- New York- The Ambler Warning (there may be others) and it should be noted that Ludlum was on the NYT bestseller's list several times.
- Toronto- The Lazarus Vendetta
(8/15/14 edited for grammar and tags added)
Not a wagtail. Well done! Just brilliant!
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