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Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne’s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring-an manufactured article of such powerful significance that people have killed to take it. Now he’s determined to find the ring’s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he’ll learn he committed when he digs into the past. The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin, who was also a graduate of the Central Intelligence training program Treadstone. A covert course designed to make ruthless assassins for C.I., it was shuttered by Congress for corruption. Yet before it was dismantled, it produced Bourne and Arkadin, giving them equal skills, equal force, and equal cunning. As Bourne’s destiny circles closer to Arkadin’s, it becomes clear that the eventual crash of these men is not of their own building. A name else has been watching and manipulating them. A name who wants to know, Who is the more deadly agent?
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The book was in nearly perfect condition when received. No prblems what so ever, although it does seem to take a long time for shipping via USPS.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Jason bourne readers know very well by now that comaring ludlum with LB is a lost cause. It will never take place. Now keeping that in mind, this latest book was not that terrible. I feel compeled to point out how far the bourne novels have fallen. from government conspiracies to treasure hunts??????????IS the book worth a read? If you have nothing better to do, maybe. but i reflect im going to go back and read the ludlums again.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I have only a few supplies for a spy novel.
The plot must be entertaining, the protagonists and their situation must be plausible, and the mundane details of their surroundings must be consistent. Supposedly set in our present day universe, this novel falls fleeting on all counts.
Pellet-sized ultrasonic screamers that paralyze large rooms of people, files locked using “logarithms”, burner cellphones a “local call” then one using a 10-digit number, laptop computers with ejectable drives and netbooks that can be massively upgraded by an agent in the meadow litter this inconclusive chapter of David Webb’s life, conflict with reality, adding nothing except part to the book.
I tried to mentally gloss over these items when I establish them, but they were copious enough that they couldn’t overcome the additional problem – the quest for the ring’s secret wasn’t plausible. The tale just wasn’t that appealing.
Each time I encountered one of these errors or inconsistencies I had to double back to be sure that I hadn’t misunderstood what I’d read, and then try to figure out what the leader might have proposed to say, and why it was in the tale.
I never did. I reflect this is the work of an aging leader and/or editor so out of touch with the basics of physics, communication and computer equipment that they should change to effective on past novels or science fantasy.
The “Bourne” title got me to pick this book from the shelf, but I’ll have to reflect twice before I invest my time reading another Van Lusterbader/Hachette novel.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The original Bourne of Robert Ludlum is long gone, replaced with an amnesic wanna be. No longer is the appealing trade craft showed to marvel at, as a replacement for poorly written gun fights are used to go the plot along. Lustbader attempts to write a novel based partially around equipment, but he rumor has it that isn’t familiar enough with it to do it correctly. For the computer literate there are errors, misspellings, excreta throughout the novel.
The overall plot is beyond ridiculous, and something I would expect from a Saturday morning cartoon. The side plots with the additional supporting characters are much more appealing. The side characters aren’t well developed, and even they are developed more then Bourne. Overall I highly recommend the reader stay away from this one, unless they have to get their hands on the latest Bourne novel.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Please repeat after me “the late fantastic Robert Ludlum is NO LONGER WITH US”!!! The problem I reflect most people are suffering from is that they compare Eric Van Lustbader’s Jason Bourne books to Robert Ludlum’s. First, there is no comparing. Mr. Ludlum was one of the greatest espionage writters of all time. Secondly, the Bourne series was his greatest achievement as an leader. No one will ever be able to replace him.
Having said all that, Mr. Van Lustbader’s books are not as terrible as many reviews aver. They are a decent read and worth buying if you like these type books. His last 3 Bourne books seem to have settled into a consistency after being all over the place in the first 2 he wrote. They all tie together, have a consistent nemisis and have developed Bourne into a Van Lustbader character versus trying to be the Ludlum Bourne.
My largest issue is that they should not even be Jason Bourne novels. The books feature Bourne as the main character but he is only in about 25 to 30% of the book. the rest of the book(s) are spent on characters that Van Lustbader has introduced. There is also no consistency from the original Jason Bourne and no apparent explanation as to why things are different with this Jason Bourne. Several examples are:
-When we last left Ludlum’s Bourne, it was the 1990’s and he was approx 50 years ancient. He is now in 2010 and seems to be in his mid to late 30’s.
-Jason’s world used to gyrate around Marie. Suddenly, in Van Lustbader’s second Bourne novel, Marie caught a cold, died and Jason chose to dump their kids with her parents in Canada in the first 25 pages of his 2nd novel and has not seen, mentioned or thought about them since.
-Ludlum built some fantastic supporting characters over his 3 Bourne novels and they fleshed out who Jason was. Van Lustbader killed off the remainder of persons characters in his 2nd and early pages of his 3rd books. Now, he has introduced a much different supporting cast that dominate, rather than compliment Jason, in his books.
-In Van Lustbader’s first Bourne novel he told a pretty decent tale about Jason, seemingly in his early 40’s, finding his long lost son, Khan. Thinking Khan would be a featured character going forwards, he has not been heard from since.
-Jason, in Ludlum’s books, despised Jason Bourne and wanted to be David Webb. Within the first few chapters of Van Lustbader’s second novel, Jason gives up being David Webb and small more is mentioned of his life as David Webb.
The problem may have been that after having ongoing his series pretty right to Jason Bourne ,due to poor reviews, publisher feedback or trying to fit better to the fans of Matt Damon’s younger/edgier Jason Bourne, Van Lustbader then threw away Jason’s life and identity, as well as, started killing off Ludlum’s supporting characters and introducing his own by the his second book. Not to mention de-aging Jason. Then, he seemly ongoing over from scratch for the next 3 books. Basically reinventing the character with an fix of his life and personality. In my opinion, this is where he went incorrect. He should have simply did his best to stay with Ludlum’s character for Bourne books and write this character as his own character (different name and background) for these last three adventures.
To sum up my review, I personally continue to struggle to some extent with these books due to this not really being the original Jason Bourne. I like the books but try to not focus on the changes in a fantastic character and reflect of the tale as a whole and this Jason Bourne not having anything to do with the previous one written by Ludlum. Until Van Lustbader, or another leader, brings back a 40+ Jason that likes his family tree and yearns for a life he can never really have as David Webb, I won’t get too excited about this series. At least give us a “Year One” Jason Bourne prequel or some additional vehicle to clarify why all the above changes have occurred in these recent books!
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5