Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Vendetta
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Publisher Description
The hunt for a trove of secret information forces Bourne to decide who lives – and who dies – in this latest installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
A hacked database known as the Files has upended the intelligence community. Careers are being destroyed. Dirty deals are showing up on the front page. Assassinations are spreading from Europe to the U.S.
The new head of Treadstone sends Jason Bourne on a mission to find out who has the Files and get them back – or destroy them. But Bourne isn’t alone in this race. The Chinese want the Files. So do the Russians. And the only woman who may be able to help him is a treacherous spy known as Johanna – Bourne’s former lover – who sees the Files as the key to her own vendetta against Treadstone.
Bourne has a rule for friends and enemies alike: Trust no one. That rule may be the only thing keeping him alive, because the hunt for the Files soon takes Bourne inside a twisted labyrinth of murder and betrayal, where everyone has a hidden agenda.
Including Bourne himself.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Freeman's limp sixth Jason Bourne adventure (after The Bourne Shadow) is more soap opera than spy thriller. Everyone in the global intelligence community is after "the Files," a database of hacked information teeming with secrets ripe for blackmail. Rogue former Treadstone agent Johanna, aka Storm, seeks the files to bring down her former employer. Shadow, the head of Treadstone, has her own plans for the material, and assigns amnesiac spy Jason Bourne to get to them before Storm can. Instead, former lovers Storm and Jason join forces against sadistic Russian pornographers and relentless Chinese assassins seeking the files for their own nefarious ends. First, Bourne must rescue Tatiana Reznikova—a character improbably reappearing after the events of The Bourne Treachery—from sexual slavery. Meanwhile, Abbey Laurent, Bourne's former fiancée, becomes the apparent target of a contract killer while investigating a suspicious wildfire. Freeman brings the heat in both the action and the bedroom scenes, but the way his otherwise strong female characters pine for Jason's attention grows tedious, and some plot inconsistencies distract (Bourne's amnesia is mostly, well, forgotten). With his romantic life finally settled by the story's conclusion, here's hoping Bourne will be better equipped for his next mission.
