Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Escape
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4.3 • 307 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The death of a lover plunges Bourne into a maelstrom of violence and deceit in this latest installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Jason Bourne is on a boat in the Mediterranean moonlight with his lover, Johanna. He’s happy for the first time in years. Then in the next instant, he finds himself floating on wreckage as fire and smoke choke the sky. Johanna is gone. And Bourne finds the darkness of lost memory closing around his mind again.
As he did once before, Bourne must piece together the fragments of who he is, even as assassins hunt him across Europe. He teams up with his spy chief, Shadow, who reveals the shocking secret that Bourne’s surrogate father – David Abbott, the founder of Treadstone – is alive and missing. Together they must find Abbott before his enemies do.
But Shadow is a master of manipulation who won’t hesitate to betray Bourne to get what she wants. With his memory returning in bits and pieces, Jason discovers that the explosion that stole away his identity is part of a deadly game being played among powerful adversaries from Moscow to Washington. It’s a game with no winners – because even if he finds David Abbott, Bourne may still find himself with no way out and everything to lose.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Freeman's thrilling latest Bourne adventure (after The Bourne Vendetta), the amnesiac spy is dealt a devastating blow that returns the series to its roots. The novel opens in flashback, with a 20-something Bourne—using his birth name, David Webb—undergoing a deadly test from his brilliant and calculating mentor David "the Monk" Abbott. Bourne passes the test and is cleared to take assignments for Webb's secret new espionage organization, Treadstone. In the present, Bourne is sailing in the Mediterranean with his girlfriend, fellow agent Johanna. The two are on the run from Russian assassins sent by Vladimir Putin and the head of Treadstone. One morning, Bourne wakes up floating alone on a piece of sailboat wreckage, suddenly wiped of all the memories he'd meticulously recovered over the series' four-decade run. Again a blank slate, Bourne must relearn who he is while dodging those determined to kill him. Freeman keeps the plot's hard reset from feeling too familiar by seizing the opportunity to fill in key questions about Bourne's past. It's a nostalgic treat for longtime series fans, and it sets up future entries for success.
Customer Reviews
Complicated Characters, LOVED them.
Ups and downs. Hills and valleys. Narrow escapes. No escapes for some. Just a fun convocation read. Ludlum would be proud.
The Bourne Escape
Ludlum would have liked this one
Riveting Bourne
Always twists and turns mixing action, spies and sex. A great read I didn’t want to end.