The Icarus Agenda | Themes
The principal theme of the novel is the danger posed to democracy by the ambitions of the few to rule the many. Ludlum illustrates this theme by showing the people who are the American vice president's closest advisors. Like the Mahdi, they are motivated by greed, and just as the Mahdi hopes to gain control of the construction business in the Middle East, the vice president's advisors try to use him to gain control of America's weapons business. One of the vice president's advisors actually employs the same terrorists who held the American embassy in Oman; he wants them to murder Evan...
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