After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Across the globe, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt-apparently by an Iranian missile-leaving the world wondering if it was an accident or an act of aggression. A massive global team lead by Soraya Moore is assembled to investigate the attack before the situation escalates.
When Bourne's search for his would-be assassin intersects with Soraya's search for the group behind the airplane bombing, Bourne is thrust into a race to prevent a new world war. But it may already be too late.
ROBERT LUDLUM was the author of twenty-one novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of
The Scarlatti Inheritance,
The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series--
The Bourne Identity,
The Bourne Supremacy, and
The Bourne Ultimatum--among others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March, 2001.
http://www.ludlumbooks.com/ERIC VAN LUSTBADER is most widely known as the
New York Times bestselling author of twenty international bestselling thrillers including
Ninja and
Black Heart. He is also the author of two successful and highly regarded series of fantasy novels,
The Sunset Warrior Cycle and
The Pearl Saga. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages.
www.ericvanlustbader.comNearly assassinated, Bourne fakes his death and then tries to determine who's after him this time. Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
Shadowy master assassin Jason Bourne spends too much time offstage in bestseller Lustbader's clich-ridden fourth thriller in the Ludlum franchise (after The Bourne Sanction). Having pushed his latest archenemy, Russian Leonid Arkadin, off a tanker into the ocean, Bourne assumes his foe must be dead. Not long after, Arkadin ambushes Bourne, hitting him with a rifle shot that would've killed a normal man. Seriously but not mortally wounded, Bourne decides to keep his survival a secret. The duel between the pair gets submerged in a plot line about a corrupt U.S. defense secretary's efforts to use the downing of a civilian airliner in Egypt by an Iranian missile as a casus belli. The action sequences and inevitable betrayals are old hat. Clumsy prose doesn't help ("She was dead, but he could not forget her, or what she caused in him: the tiniest fissure in the speckled granite of his soul, through which her mysterious light had begun to trickle, like the first snowmelt of spring"). (June)
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