Ambler Warning: Robert Ludlum

I really enjoyed this book! A man escapes from a government owned prison/ mental institution with the help of a nurse there. He believes he has fallen in love with her while he tries to remember not only who he is, but why he was in the institution. His face has been surgically altered and no one from his past remembers him, he seems to have not existed. I didn't understand how his old comrades from the department recognize him if the plastic surgery is new. The first operative from his past was blind, so that part made sense, but another operative, the "bad guy" recognizes him? At the end we find out he has been played. His former boss is trying to single handedly make sure Chine doesn't become a hegemony and has the nurse, who was actually working for the government set Ambler up. Since Ambler's identity has been erased the US wouldn't take the blame for the assassination of their president. Ambler puts everything together at the last minute and nearly dies stopping the murder. Ambler has the support of an unlikely aid in an accountant for the CIA who found some suspicious paper trails.