The Apocalypse Watch

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The Apocalypse Watch
Author Robert Ludlum
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Thriller novel
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date 10 April 1995
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 480 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-00-223972-8

The Apocalypse Watch is a novel by Robert Ludlum. A TV movie based on it aired in 1997. This was Ludlum's second novel to focus on a neo-Nazi conspiracy to take over the world, the other being The Holcroft Covenant. A line in the The Apocalypse Watch references Projekt Sonnenkinder from the earlier novel but indicates it never came to fruition, suggesting that the two books take place in alternate time-lines.

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The plot concerns Drew Latham, a special officer for consular operations, who must discover why his brother was killed after a covert mission. He impersonates his brother, and uncovers a web of neo-Nazi supporters with members at high levels of the U.S. government and its allies. Latham must stop the neo-Nazis plot to take over Europe through terrorism and biological warfare.

A running joke concerns the French being unable to pronounce "Latham" correctly.

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