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'High energy action is the name of the game here, bursting with the kind of narrative propulsion that made Ludlum's thrillers such fun thorughout his long career.' (GOOD BOOK GUIDE )
'Bourne fans will enjoy it immensely. Exciting reading throughout.' (TELEGRAPH & ARGUS )
'Bourne fans will enjoy it immensely. Exciting reading throughout.' (TELEGRAPH & ARGUS )
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A brand new JASON BOURNE novel - latest in the bestselling series.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Like many readers of action thrillers, I was hooked on Jason Bourne with Robert Ludlum's first three books way back when. Thanks to Eric Van Lustbader, this `superhero' is kept alive and kicking in the original's great tradition. This book, is part of a trilogy, too - the last part so, unless you're in the groove, as it were, it's complicated. There is Arkadin, there's Soraya Moore showing Bourne and us, the face of moderate Islam, both from earlier episodes but, as always, some very heavy newcomers to the storyline.
Bourne's loss of memory contines to plague him at crucial moments, as he hunts down the killer of an art-dealer friend. She entrusted to him a piece of jewellery which, surprise, surprise, means a great deal more than first thought. Others intent on obtaining the curiously engraved ring believe it will help their cause for world dominance, so, inevitably, Severus Domna will take any action to locate it and use it. That the ring is, in fact, a sort of USB for a missing laptop brings us up to date with technology but there is still the matter of the good old-fashioned Russian killer, Leonid Arkadin, to deal with. Arkadin was similarly trained by Treadstone, Bourne's original outfit before he morphed into a rogue element and is responsible for the killing of Bourne's friend, Tracy Atherton, so the scene is set for a thrilling chase, the hunter hunted, helped along the way by just about everybody else wishing to see Bourne (and, indeed Arkadin) summarily disposed of.
This is number 8 in the long-running series and it won't spoil this book to suggest that number 9 will still fixate on Bourne's amnesia as he uses all his skills to stay alive and discover who he really is, whilst keeping one step ahead of so many enemies. The author writes a great action thriller, very much in the vein of Robert Ludlum but certainly in his own inimitable style. Helped along the way by some marvellous films, there is no let up in Bourne's popularity and this book will do it no harm, either. With such a long list of characters, it can, at times, become a little confusing, especially when there are several global scene changes within the same chapter but don't let this put you off. There's a breath-taking finale which makes all the earlier roller-coaster pages so worthwhile; I'm sure you'll be impatient for book 9, to say the least.
Bourne's loss of memory contines to plague him at crucial moments, as he hunts down the killer of an art-dealer friend. She entrusted to him a piece of jewellery which, surprise, surprise, means a great deal more than first thought. Others intent on obtaining the curiously engraved ring believe it will help their cause for world dominance, so, inevitably, Severus Domna will take any action to locate it and use it. That the ring is, in fact, a sort of USB for a missing laptop brings us up to date with technology but there is still the matter of the good old-fashioned Russian killer, Leonid Arkadin, to deal with. Arkadin was similarly trained by Treadstone, Bourne's original outfit before he morphed into a rogue element and is responsible for the killing of Bourne's friend, Tracy Atherton, so the scene is set for a thrilling chase, the hunter hunted, helped along the way by just about everybody else wishing to see Bourne (and, indeed Arkadin) summarily disposed of.
This is number 8 in the long-running series and it won't spoil this book to suggest that number 9 will still fixate on Bourne's amnesia as he uses all his skills to stay alive and discover who he really is, whilst keeping one step ahead of so many enemies. The author writes a great action thriller, very much in the vein of Robert Ludlum but certainly in his own inimitable style. Helped along the way by some marvellous films, there is no let up in Bourne's popularity and this book will do it no harm, either. With such a long list of characters, it can, at times, become a little confusing, especially when there are several global scene changes within the same chapter but don't let this put you off. There's a breath-taking finale which makes all the earlier roller-coaster pages so worthwhile; I'm sure you'll be impatient for book 9, to say the least.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The latest in the Bourne series is another fantastic edition in the books of our new favourite Spy.Refering back to previous books occasionally,it keeps the story rolling out of the Jason Bourne verses the baddies,in this instance his old adversary Arkadin !
With some fellow friends to aide him,he gets enrolled into his usual antics,with brilliant twists and turns in the usual Bourne manner to make yet another MUST HAVE book.Quite simply,SUPERB !!
With some fellow friends to aide him,he gets enrolled into his usual antics,with brilliant twists and turns in the usual Bourne manner to make yet another MUST HAVE book.Quite simply,SUPERB !!
Format:Hardcover
This is probably the worst novel I have ever read. It is erratic and incoherent, featuring too many characters, poorly defined, who have no real role in the story - what is the point of the twins, apart from satisfying the authors fantasy. Robert Ludlum must be spinning on his grave! By the time I got to the end of the book I'd long ceased to care what happened to Jason Bourne.
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i can not give a review on these books as i bought them for a friends birthday but i think he said they were great to read just what he wanted
Published 7 months ago by joe bloggs
baffled by the price
why is it that I can by a paperbacked copy of this book for around £5.00 but to download this book costs twice this price, a little bit of common sense is required here
Published 15 months ago by steve
Dilution
Bourne having been a prolific source for invention appears now to have been thinned to a mere shadow of his Ludlam days. This book follows a formula and has a predictable plot. Read more
Published 19 months ago by M. Kaye
Poor research leads to a poor book
This was amazingly disappointing for me as I'm a huge fan of the Bourne films and was hoping to engross myself immediately in the book and lose myself in the action. Read more
Published 20 months ago by A. Cresswell
Simply awful
I'll admit I had no idea this book was part of an on-going series, and maybe that is a part of it, but this book was really awful... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Ian Watson
The Bourne Disappointment
I too have read previous "Bourne" thrillers, luckily only the books actually written by Robert Ludlum. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Voisin
Disappointed
Having read all the previous Bourne books (both Ludlum's and Van Lustbader), as well as reading most of Eric Van Lustbader's previous books (Ninja, Zero, Miko etc), I had great... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Austin Coventry
Good Plot and Excellent Action Sequences--One of the Better New...
"And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD." -- 2 Chronicles 12:14 (NKJV)
Jason Bourne (aka David Webb) still can't remember very much as... Read more
Jason Bourne (aka David Webb) still can't remember very much as... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Donald Mitchell
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