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It is a particular vision that has paid off handsomely. He lets the question hang suspended for a moment, as if to emphasize the point that his suspense novels have a curious way of mixing fact and fiction that sometimes surprises even him. Everybody knows the war ended in 1945, so what were we using before that?" Sperry-Rand had perfected a gyro-compass under a top-secret project in 1946. In 1944, the Germans went into French Equatorial Africa to guard a source of industrial diamonds.
"When I finally got around to doing the research for 'Rhineman,'" he says, "I ran across something that terrified me. Now Ludlum is pretty sure it was a little of both. "Either something like this was on the drawing board someplace," he says, "or this man had a wild imagination." Ludlum refuses to give the man's name even today, seven years later.īut he has two theories. Then, he stood up and left Ludlum alone on the beach.
"No," the man said, "no book must ever be written about it." "That's obscene," Ludlum said, "two super powers at war, trading in military hardware. "I just want you to think about it," the man replied. "Are you suggesting this actually happended?," Ludlum said. 4 the Allies had access to industrial diamonds." 3 the Germans had already perfected a gyro-compass, Fact No. 2 the B-17 bomber came off the assembly lines here with a less-than-adequate gyrocompass. 1," the man said, "in January 1944, at Pennemunde, the Germans ran out of industrial diamonds. Supposing I were to give you four points of history to consider." "Yes," the man said, he had been sent a copy by a government agency to "vet" for security problems. "You read it?" Ludlum asked, thinking he had gotten a review copy somehow. The man, well over 6 feet, leaned down and said quietly, "Are you Robert Ludlum? Did you write "The Scarlatti Inheritance?" The year was 1970, only a few days before Ludlum's first book, "The Scarlatti Inheritance," was to be published. He was on the beach near his home in the Virgin Islands, a place he visits so rarely that he is now trying to sell it, when a man approached him. Rovert Ludlum, the author of over half a dozen best-selling supense novels, likes to tell this tale about how he stumbled onto the plot to "The Rhineman Exchange," his fourth book that was recently stuffed and mounted as an "NBC Best Seller."