Robert Ludlum's the Treadstone Rendition


 
 
 
 The Bourne Series
 
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Sacrifice (by Brian Freeman)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Treachery (by Brian Freeman)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Evolution (by Brian Freeman)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Initiative (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Enigma (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ascendancy (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Retribution (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Imperative (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Dominion (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Objective (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Deception (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Sanction (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Betrayal (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Legacy (by Eric Van Lustbader)
 The Bourne Ultimatum
 The Bourne Supremacy
 The Bourne Identity
 
 The Treadstone Series
 
 Robert Ludlum’s The Treadstone Transgression (by Joshua Hood)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Treadstone Exile (by Joshua Hood)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Treadstone Resurrection (by Joshua Hood)
 
 The Blackbriar Series
 
 Robert Ludlum’s The Blackbriar Genesis (by Simon Gervais)
 
 The Covert-one Series
 
 Robert Ludlum’s The Patriot Attack (by Kyle Mills)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Geneva Strategy (by Jamie Freveletti)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Utopia Experiment (by Kyle Mills)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Janus Reprisal (by Jamie Freveletti)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Ares Decision (by Kyle Mills)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Arctic Event (by James H. Cobb)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Moscow Vector (by Patrick Larkin)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Lazarus Vendetta (by Patrick Larkin)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Altman Code (with Gayle Lynds)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Paris Option (with Gayle Lynds)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Cassandra Compact (with Philip Shelby)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Hades Factor (with Gayle Lynds)
 
 The Janson Series
 
 Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Equation (by Douglas Corleone)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Option (by Paul Garrison)
 Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command (by Paul Garrison)
 The Janson Directive
 
 Also by Robert Ludlum
 
 The Bancroft Strategy
 The Ambler Warning
 The Tristan Betrayal
 The Sigma Protocol
 The Prometheus Deception
 The Matarese Countdown
 The Apocalypse Watch
 The Scorpio Illusion
 The Road to Omaha
 The Icarus Agenda
 The Aquitaine Progression
 The Parsifal Mosaic
 The Matarese Circle
 The Holcroft Covenant
 The Chancellor Manuscript
 The Gemini Contenders
 The Road to Gandolfo
 The Rhinemann Exchange
 The Cry of the Halidon
 Trevayne
 The Matlock Paper
 The Osterman Weekend
 The Scarlatti Inheritance
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
 Names: Hood, Joshua, author.
 Title: Robert Ludlum’s the Treadstone rendition / Joshua Hood.
 Other titles: Treadstone rendition
 Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2023. | Series: The Treadstone series; [4] |
 Identifiers: LCCN 2022055476 (print) | LCCN 2022055477 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593419823 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593419830 (ebook)
 Subjects: LCGFT: Thrillers (Fiction) | Novels.
 Classification: LCC PS3608.O5574 R6297 2023 (print) | LCC PS3608.O5574 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20221212
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 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022055477
 Cover design: Tal Goretsky
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 Adapted for ebook by Maggie Hunt
 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
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 Prologue
 Tangi Valley, Afghanistan
 August 2011
 Alpha Team was sucking gas. The twelve-man team of Afghan soldiers and Green Berets had been roaming the mountains of the Wardak Province in central Afghanistan for days now, tracking a group of insurgents responsible for shooting down an American CH-47D Chinook resupply helicopter just weeks before. All thirty-eight people on board the helicopter had died, including thirty American military personnel—the worst loss of American lives in Afghanistan since Operation Enduring Freedom had begun a decade earlier. Lieutenant Adam Hayes and his men had been tasked with finding the Taliban fighters who’d fired the rocket-propelled grenade, and they and an escort squad from the Afghan National Army had been searching tirelessly, their bodies beaten down by the unrelenting Afghan heat and the fifty-plus pounds of body armor, weapons, and ammunition strapped to their backs.
 But despite the pain, Hayes knew they were closing in on their prey. He’d pushed his men hard, and had no intention of letting up until his team had avenged the loss of those thirty-eight lives.
 His team sergeant had other ideas.
 “Boss, we’re going to need to call a halt,” the sergeant told him over the radio, as the team trudged slowly up a steep, rocky trail. “The Afghans are out of water.”
 Hayes muttered a curse, wiping his face against the sleeve of his desert BDUs. “What, Mike, again?”
 “Roger,” the sergeant replied.
 Hayes cursed again. Turned back the way they’d come in time to see one of the ANA regulars shuffling up the trail, the stock of his AK-47 dragging in the dust.
 You’ve got to be shitting me.
 As more of the soldiers came into view, Hayes could see clearly they were struggling. Breathing heavily, open-mouthed, every step looking like they were wearing concrete boots. They’d chosen a hell of a place to shut down, though; with the ridgeline on their left flank and a craggy rock face to their right, this place was Ambush City. It was not the kind