![]() ![]() The fact that the situation pertains in the OP's edition but not in the 2010/2012 editions, suggests that the issue is editorial rather than down to Ludlum's own spelling choices. ![]() It is possible that there was some rationale for the mixture in that edition, such as direct speech by American characters retaining US spellings, but without information as to the specific edition the OP has, and access to it, it is not possible to say more at this stage. If the Op is correct in the .uk edition having a mixture of 'color' and colour', 'favorite' and 'favourite' it seems likely that this was an incomplete 'translation' to British English from US English, in an earlier edition, which has since been changed. There have been somewhere between 290 and 500 million copies of his original books sold, in thirty-three languages and forty countries. The book was first published in the UK in 1986 by Grafton Books and also in paperback in 2004 by Orion. Publishing books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd as well as his given name, Robert Ludlum was an American who wrote twenty-seven bestselling thrillers. Having searched the 20 .uk paperback editions Internet Archive copy of the edition, OP has stated they have an .uk edition in comments, I am not able to find any occurrences of either 'favorite' or 'color'.
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