Although Robert Ludlum has been dead for years now his well known character Jason Bourne lives on. The author of "The Bourne Sanction", Eric Van Lustbader, was co-writing books with Ludlum before Ludlum's death so he was apparently given the rights to continue writing Bourne novels by the family estate. The books are okay but if they tracked with the original Jason Bourne novels then "old Jason" would be in his 60's and no longer capable of doing what this character does in the new novels. Jason Bourne was in Vietnam during the war so I can figure out the math. Van Lustbader writes a good novel and it keeps you interested but he definitely isn't Robert Ludlum. I guess he's hoping to inspire Hollywood to continue the Jason Bourne movies using his novels. In this novel, every covert operation is trying to take over control of each other. While all this is happening Jason is sent off by his mentor (a professor at Georgetown where Jason has worked in the past as David Webb, his alter ego) to Russia to uncover the Black Legion group. Lots of killing and fights to the finish take place. Of course the whole world is out to kill Jason!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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