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by Eric Van Lustbader (Author), Robert Ludlum (Creator)
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  • Hardcover: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; First Edition / First Impression edition (7 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1409100480
  • ISBN-13: 978-1409100485
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 200,024 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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For Jason Bourne, forever caught between two identities - mild-mannered linguist David Webb and lethal super-spy - life can never be ordinary. But when his old mentor, Professor Spector, installs him as head of the comparative linguists department at Georgetown University, it seems he may have found a measure of normalcy at last. Until a hitherto unknown terrorist organisation comes up on Central Intelligence radar, with a plan to execute a major attack on the east coast of the United States within a week. Without sufficient hard intelligence to back them up and with competing intelligence organisations keen to undermine new director of Central Intelligence Veronica Hart, they have no choice but to employ a rogue agent capable of hunting down a shadowy terrorist mastermind on his own - Jason Bourne. Suddenly Bourne is plunged into the deadliest and most tangled operation of his double life: pursuing the head of the Black Legion - a murderous terror group with its roots in the darkest days of World War II - while his own side tries to take him down, and all the while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute


About the Author

Eric Van Lustbader is the author of numerous novels in a variety of styles, but is most widely known as the author of twenty international bestselling thrillers including THE NINJA and BLACK HEART. Born in New York City, he currently lives in New York State. After a successful career in the theatre, Robert Ludlum launched his career as a best-selling writer with THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE in 1971, the first of twenty-two consecutive international bestsellers. Robert sadly passed away in March 2001.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The Best of the Lustbader Books to Date About Jason Bourne, 21 Aug 2008
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This is the third book written by Eric Van Lustbader about Jason Bourne. As I've commented before, this isn't the same Jason Bourne as Robert Ludlum wrote about. If you want that Jason Bourne, skip this book. It's also different from the wonderful ninja stories that Eric Van Lustbader is known for. So don't look for that either.

If you are interested in meeting and following a new Jason Bourne, read on. If you do decide to read The Bourne Sanction, I strongly suggest that you read The Bourne Betrayal first. The characters and the situation won't make much sense to you otherwise. I suspect that you will see this book as a one or two star effort.

As the book opens, there's a deadly secret being passed along to help foil a dangerous terrorist plan. The U.S. intelligence community is in great turmoil, and there are lots of people who want to grab the reins of power. Jason Bourne has resumed his David Webb persona and is teaching again. Events quickly conspire to intertwine those plot threads into a huge conflict that imperils even Jason Bourne.

Like The Bourne Betrayal, this book is too long. But it's only 150 pages too long, rather than 200 pages too long. That's progress.

The book's strength can be found in some of the action scenes and in the plot twists that are deeply embedded into the early Bourne stories. The book's weaknesses are that it moves too slowly, Bourne is barely present as a personality, and there's a little too much assuming that readers have read the last two stories.

I get the sense that Mr. Lustbader is beginning to get his sea legs under him in writing about Jason Bourne. I suspect the series will continue to get better from here. But what do I know? I'm just an optimist who is rooting for this series to work. I would miss the idea of Jason Bourne too much otherwise.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Better than Bourne Betrayal (but then ANYTHING is!!!), 25 Oct 2008
By Mr. Clark Gillies (West Kilbride, Ayrshire Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Robert Ludlum's "The Bourne Sanction" (Paperback)
Here we go again... another Eric Van Lustbader poor knock-off Bourne Book!

When The Bourne Legacy came out I felt that new life had been brought into (the book) Jason Bourne (I thought it was a great book), and could not wait for more... but when the Bourne Betrayal (Betrayal is the word for sure) came out and was so angry and wish that Van Lustbader had stopped while he was ahead with Legacy.

Anyway, when The Bourne Sanction came out, a part of me wanted to avoid it after the let down of the last book!

TBH, the story is still VERY weak and poor (even Robert Ludlum himself never wrote anything as poor as this and the last book)... but is actually more enjoyable than Betrayal... Bourne again seems to be getting younger rather older (its pretty weired reading about a guy in his late 60's on the dancefloor of a Moscow nightclub, like he is in his late 20's, dancing with a young Russian girl), which makes me think that Van Lustbader has based "his" Bourne on the Matt Damon one rather than Robert Ludlums one!

From what I hear another book is due out next year... hopefully Van Lustbader will move on from the Middle-East Terrorist story that he has followed in the last 3 books, as it is getting old now!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The Best of the Lustbader Books to Date About Jason Bourne, 21 Aug 2008
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
(TOP 10 REVIEWER)      
This review is from: Robert Ludlum's "The Bourne Sanction" (Paperback)

This is the third book written by Eric Van Lustbader about Jason Bourne. As I've commented before, this isn't the same Jason Bourne as Robert Ludlum wrote about. If you want that Jason Bourne, skip this book. It's also different from the wonderful ninja stories that Eric Van Lustbader is known for. So don't look for that either.

If you are interested in meeting and following a new Jason Bourne, read on. If you do decide to read The Bourne Sanction, I strongly suggest that you read The Bourne Betrayal first. The characters and the situation won't make much sense to you otherwise. I suspect that you will see this book as a one or two star effort.

As the book opens, there's a deadly secret being passed along to help foil a dangerous terrorist plan. The U.S. intelligence community is in great turmoil, and there are lots of people who want to grab the reins of power. Jason Bourne has resumed his David Webb persona and is teaching again. Events quickly conspire to intertwine those plot threads into a huge conflict that imperils even Jason Bourne.

Like The Bourne Betrayal, this book is too long. But it's only 150 pages too long, rather than 200 pages too long. That's progress.

The book's strength can be found in some of the action scenes and in the plot twists that are deeply embedded into the early Bourne stories. The book's weaknesses are that it moves too slowly, Bourne is barely present as a personality, and there's a little too much assuming that readers have read the last two stories.

I get the sense that Mr. Lustbader is beginning to get his sea legs under him in writing about Jason Bourne. I suspect the series will continue to get better from here. But what do I know? I'm just an optimist who is rooting for this series to work. I would miss the idea of Jason Bourne too much otherwise.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
A very good read. The book was also ssent promptly and arrived as stated. A good experience.
Published 1 month ago by Ms. Lynn Beaufort

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful
Having enjoyed the Bourne trilogy films I took a risk on this at the airport looking for an action novel and trusting the 'Bourne' brand. Read more
Published 1 month ago by M. Hepburn

2.0 out of 5 stars Please stop soon.
Eric van Lustbader is no Robert Ludlum. His Jason Bourne, as noted by other reviewers, is not the same character that was present in the original trilogy, or even to an extent in... Read more
Published 2 months ago by amazonian117

3.0 out of 5 stars Starts off slowly, then picks up but a bit too long
I have read a couple of the Mr Ludlum's Bourne novels, but am more attached to the film adaptations to date, so thought that I would give Mr van Lustbader's book a try for a... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mme

2.0 out of 5 stars I haven't laughed so much in ages!
I have to say I found this book to be a fairly ordinary copy of a Ludlum style book, and I found the writing style to be about 25 years out-of-date. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Stephen Jamieson

5.0 out of 5 stars An avid reader's review
A brilliant writer, especially his 'Nicholas Linnear' novels. I would say his writing of 'Jason Bourne' stories are as good as Robert Ludlum. Read more
Published 7 months ago by K. J. Johnson

2.0 out of 5 stars A lot to live up to - and it didn't for me...
The great thing about Jason Bourne as created by Robert Ludlum, and at the same time the greatest problem is that three novels is not enough - you want more and more... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. Jamie D. Strachan

3.0 out of 5 stars Another Bourne Novel
Van Lustbader takes the Bourne adventurer on another venture but does not take the Bourne story forward, although there is a hint of a yet another volume to follow in the last... Read more
Published 12 months ago by M. Wilkinson

3.0 out of 5 stars Not well researched
Bought this book at the airport.............
My first impression of this book was that it was poorly researched. Read more
Published 13 months ago by tuohy

3.0 out of 5 stars The Best of the Lustbader Books to Date About Jason Bourne

This is the third book written by Eric Van Lustbader about Jason Bourne. As I've commented before, this isn't the same Jason Bourne as Robert Ludlum wrote about. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Professor Donald Mitchell

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