There’s a line in Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical Into the Woods: “They die but they don’t.” They must have been singing about Robert Ludlum, who died in 2001, but whose name looms over the titles of 12 books published since then, written by six different people, most recently Eric Van Lustbader. Lustbader has written more than 25 books under his own name, including Ninja, “soon to be made into a major motion picture” (did anybody ever make a minor motion picture?)
“People expect something from a Robert Ludlum book, and if we can publish Ludlum books for the next 50 years and satisfy readers, we will,” said the executor of Ludlum’s estate.
Here’s the full NY Times story from 7/30/07
