The Bourne Deception

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

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)

Author Information

Bio of Eric Van Lustbader

Eric Lustbader was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia College in 1968. While Lustbader was still in college, he began work in the entertainment industry by creating his own music production company that included work with such bands as Cheap Trick, Mountain, and Blue Oyster Cult. Lustbader turned his focus to writing when he published the following bestsellers: "Ninja," "Jian," and "Floating City."

Bio of Robert Ludlum

Suspense thriller writer Robert Ludlum was born on May 25, 1927 in New York City. His most famous novels include The Scalatti Inheritance, The Bourne Identity, Apocalypse Watch and The Matarese Countdown. Ludlum has also written under the name Jonathan Ryder.

Customer Reviews

• Each book gets better

  Posted July 16, 2009 by Angela, Ely, Cambridgeshire.UK

  Very impressed, complicated plot but understandable, better than the first ones which I found very complicated to follow but still could not put them down. Far better in my opinion than Ian Fleming. Hopefully there will be more to come.

Additional Info

Imprint

Grand Central Publishing

Filesize

2.33 MB

Number of Pages

432

eBook ISBN

9780446551489