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Jason Bourne needs to regain his life as David Webb so he accepts an invitation from his beloved mentor, Dominic Specter, to join the linguistics department at Georgetown. It's a relief to leave the Bourne identity behind, but Jason soon finds himself in a life-or-death confrontation where every move might be his last.

Specter tells him that a former student and son of his old friend was killed by Muslim extremists known as the Eastern Brotherhood. Their leader is a man named Semian Icoupov, and he must be stopped because his next terrorist target is believed to be right here in America.

While Jason is busy pursuing Icoupov in Russia, he's become a target himself. Inside CI, a battle is brewing for control over the agency. In order to show the incompetence of its current director, two Pentagon operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could--hunt Bourne down and destroy him.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Decent Book, anticlimatic ending
Comment: I've read all of the Bourne books now and unlike others, I actually prefer the current authors style and pace with one exception, his endings to a lot of the struggles are pretty anti-climatic and easy. I think this author is much easier to understand and I like that fact that he has forgotten Bourne's age in a way. Things just need to be a little harder for Bourne to resolve.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Slow read. Poorly written.
Comment: I love Ludlum but this is a slow read. I thought it was a waste of time.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Bourne to Be Wild
Comment: Fete of Death
On the whole, "The Bourne Sanction" is a well-paced action-packed thriller. Lustbader doesn't write like Robert Ludlum, who invented the character Jason Bourne, and doesn't intend to, as far as I can make out. Shot through with a hysterical paranoia that triggers the pile-driving action, Ludlum's Bourne novels run rings around Lustbader's. In fact, Lustbader seems to spend more time on describing the villain of the piece Arkadin than on describing Bourne.

In the plot department, again Lustbader can't keep stride with Ludlum, who was forever tossing inconceivable twist on inconceivable twist in his byzantine plots, ramping up the suspense as his books roared to their conclusions. The convoluted plot revolving around a plethora of Russian characters in "The Bourne Sanction" is all but impenetrable. Since I couldn't follow all of it, I wasn't surprised by many of its revelations. Still, there was enough action to keep me turning the pages.

I have reservations about any writer using another writer's character as his hero. It seems like a form of plagiarism, even if the original writer's estate permits it and is compensated for it.

If you skim the frequent flashback longueurs, this is a competent, enjoyable thriller for most of its massive length.

--Bryan Cassiday, author of "Fete of Death"

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Bourne
Comment: I have read all of Ludlum's writings and look forward to this particular book. It was received promptly. Thank you.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: I Can't Wait For The Movie
Comment: I never thought I would love this book as much as I did. The first book written for the Jason Bourne character by Van Lustbader,was a snore feast and it wasn't very believable. This one is a hugggghhhh step up, and being a big fan of Bourne I can't wait for the next one.

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