Originally, back in the dim and distant past that we now call 2008, this was my first introduction to Jason Bourne. An airport purchase having seen the three movies I was immediately confused by this book which appeared to bear no relation to those movies at all beyond the name of the main character and the fact that he'd apparently suffered from total memory loss at some previous point. At the time I didn't realise that the movies had pretty much kept only those two things (and the book titles)...

I recently read the previous EVL Bourne book (The Bourne Betrayal) and it was a badly written and badly plotted piece of utter nonsense. Awful, awful, awful. I decided to never, ever buy an EVL book again. BUT, in my stupidity I had already bought the next book in the series, this one, The Bourne Sanction. So I decided to give it fifty pages and if it was as bad as the previous I wasn’t going to bother. In fact this is shorter (which helps) at about 470 pages and a little bit better. Instead of

Since this is the sixth novel starring Bourne (the Van Lustbader version), this Jason Bourne story focuses more on the growing list of supporting characters who've helped him in the past -- Deron (the forger), Tyrone (the street enforcer), Soraya Moore (CI / Typhon contact), Moira (the potential love interest) -- and the growing stable of politicos in the Beltway who want to put down Bourne for good.There's plenty of political intrigue, as the new DCI Veronica Hart tries to keep the NSA from tak...

If this had been the first book in the series, I would have quit halfway through and never picked up another.What a bummer! I can't believe I read the whole thing ... but I just kept hoping for improvement, and I kept thinking something important might happen that I'd need to know if I chose to read the next in the series.But I'm probably done with the series. There are so many great books in the world to read, I'm not sure I want to invest anymore time with Van Lustbader.The previous books in t...

I like Lustbader, I like Bourne, what can go wrong, worth a few hours of fun.

- Maybe I would have liked it better if I had read the previous books in the series first- The whole "everyone I love dies so it's hard for me to open my heart to anyone" is a bit cliche and definitely could have been handled in a subtler manner.- I liked the way Arkadin's storyline was handled with bits and pieces being revealed slowly throughout the book-The bad guys are Nazis turned Islam terrorists? Are you kidding me?- What exactly the terrorist plot was still confuses me - a boat with gas

Got this on audio book from the library. Think I read the first in the series years ago, and I've seen the movies, but haven't read the recent ones. And, apparently, I won't be bothering. I was going to give it a CD and a half before I quit, but I got barely 3/4 of the way through the first disc. It started out with all sorts of action and violence and even some torture (not my cup o' tea, but I can put up with some for a good story), but once we got to good ol' Jason and friends the bad writing...

We are now so far away from the original Bourne series, I can hardly recognise the main character, his underlings, or even the connection that Bourne/Webb has with the man who opened Ludlum’s series years ago. Even taking the Bourne part out of it, this story fell far short of what I expected or even wanted to read, and it pains me that I have to see this drivel associated with what Ludlum built up over time. Where is the mentally calculating man? Where is the passion for justice and the king of...

THE REVIEW CAN ALSO BE FOUND HERE!Reading series out of order is always an interesting experience particularly when it’s the Jason Bourne novels as I can dip in and out whenever I want and usually understand what’s going on, and that was once more the case with The Bourne Sanction, the second Jason Bourne novel that I’ve read that wasn’t written by series creator Robert Ludlum, instead by Eric Van Lustbader, who has taken over and written every Bourne title since 2003’s The Bourne Legacy, the l

I use these books from audible.com to work out with, to ride motorcycles late at night with and to walk with. I do not expect huge revelations or top literature. But this thing got so convoluted and complicated and ridiculous---one day they were in mortal hand to hand combat in Russia, garroted and injured and bleeding--crashing cars and shoot em up--the next day they are in Langley, one guy in Russia is related to some guy in Washington and another guy is a Russian cop but is in with the drug g...

I have been reading Eric Van Lustbaser's Ninja books featuring Nicholas Linnear for years and have enjoyed them. Although they have a bit of oriental 'woo - woo,' they are fun reads.I have also been reading Ludlum's books for 20 years and enjoying them immensly. The plots are convoluted, but why else would you read a 'spy novel'Lustbader's continuation of the Bourne series [after Ludlum died:] and its subsequent movie fame has made Ludlums works more accessible to everybody. The Bourne Santion i...

It was a good no brainer read that wasn't as good as Robert Ludlum's writing but still good. I learned that you still don't mess with Jason Bourne and when you need something impossible done seek out "the man".

What a disorganized mess of a story. So many threads, so little organization, so much violence. Not my type of books.

Reviewed by Nikki Pringle for Reader Views (8/08) When we catch up with Jason Bourne this time around, we find our hero doing his best to put the past behind him and move forward by living his life as his astute linguistic scholar alter-ego, David Webb. Memories of his beloved Marie and of his time spent in Project Treadstone under the direction of Alex Conklin still lurk beneath the surface. Bourne is not sure how much longer her can keep up the façade of a college professor when within him is

I was a little disappointed. I'm a big Bourne fan, but maybe it was really Ludlum and not Van Lustbader. The plot was sort of hard to follow in spots, the characters were pretty shallow with one or two exceptions, and the action sequences weren't as compelling as I remember from earlier books. I'll read the next one though...* Couldn't finish** I had nothing else to do*** Passed the time, would be **** for genre / author fans**** Everyone could enjoy this book***** Everyone should read this book...

Why have some people given 5 stars to this book? Finding a rational answer to that would be more thrilling than the plot in the book! However,it must be said that the plot would not be too bad IF it was well written AND edited. A shotgun becomes a rifle the next time it appears a couple of pages later! I have never read Van Lusterbader but, expected him to be a better writer from his reputation. This book is readable (and, in patches, even a bit exciting) but most of the time you are looking for...

Possibly the worst book I have ever read. At one point Soraya Moore is drinking Ceylon tea but when the cup is knocked from her hand espresso coffee is spilled across the carpet. Sloppy writing/editing.

It was a decent story, but it was fairly predictable in parts. It almost felt like a novelized version of a movie, rather than a novel in and of itself.

I'll start by saying that while this novel is the best (so far) of the three Bourne books by Eric Van Lustbader, none of the new novels compare to Robert Ludlum's original trilogy.The nice thing about this piece was the "candle burning at both ends" feeling I got as I followed both Jason Bourne and his "new" arch nemesis, Leonid Arkadin, to their inevitable showdown. The two men leave a bloody trail of bodies and bullets in their wake, and then, through an ingenius little twist, are forced to he...