Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Janson Equation

By: Douglas Corleone

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

To prevent a war in Asia -- one that could quickly spread to the rest of the world -- Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid must learn the truth behind a young woman's murder...

Prominent U.S. Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son Gregory. Gregory's girlfriend Lynell has been found strangled in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the crime. But Senator Wyckoff insists that his son is innocent, suggesting that Lynell, who was a translator, may have been murdered because of something she overheard at a recent international conference. And when Janson and Kincaid realize they're being hunted by an assassin, they suspect that this crime--and the cover-up--were orchestrated by a shadowy unit of the U.S. State Department as part of a larger plot to provoke violence between North and South Korea.

Critic reviews

"That Janson is a complicated character makes him more interesting than most action heroes, while Kinkaid proves a capable sidekick. A number of swift, unexpected plot twists will leave Ludlum fans eager to see more in this franchise."—Publishers Weekly on The Janson Command

"The action is...nonstop in The Janson Command.... If you like thrillers, start on this series."—Chicago Tribune on The Janson Command

"The Janson Command is like finding a long-lost novel written by the master himself. It's good reading."—The Free-Lance Star on The Janson Command

"There's sufficient knife work, sniper shots, RPGs, private jets, helicopters, betrayals and corporate machinations to satisfy every armchair covert agent."—Kirkus Reviews on The Janson Command

"Loaded with all the intrigue, paranoia, and real-life parallels that made Ludlum famous."—People on The Janson Directive

"Extremely engaging and agonizingly suspenseful, Ludlum's plot bolts from scene to scene and locale to locale-Hungary, Amsterdam, London, New York City-never settling for one bombshell when it can drop four or five.... wild, unpredictable and colorfully cast."—Publisher's Weekly on The Janson Directive

A different Janson story.

It felt a little bit different from the other books but was still quite good!

Time Warp read by a Shatner protege

Somehow, Paul Janson, Vietnam war SEAL/POW has gotten younger and became an Afghan POW.

The voice actor has taken a page from the William Shatner school of excessive pauses.

if you were to do a voice to text on this performance, you'd need a truckload of comma's delivered.

Oh, and for the first time in the series, Paul Janson suddenly has debilitating claustrophobia????

He has an amazing private jet that can fly at 35,000 miles above sea level. WTF?

good narration

liked the narrator and the story definitely kept my attention. I would have liked a stronger ending maybe more of a twist

so so

The narration was not very good. The book had a great ending, but the first 2/3
was not cohesive at all. I suspect many readers will bail out. Just not on par with most Ludlum plots.

Different narrator bummer

I’ve been listening to the series and Janson seemed perfectly depicted by narrator Scott Shepard. Calm, cool & collected. Smooth operator. This book in the series is completely changed. Janson sounds more like a “nervous Jack Ryan Jr.”. Very disappointing to me.
The action and personalities aren’t as easy to really care about with the different author as well. I got through it but it was a bummer because of the change in writer & narrator.