Hi everyone:
Please enjoy my review of The Bourne Imperative by Eric Van Lustbader.
Thanks,
Ethan
The Bourne Imperative starts right, as any spy thriller should, with a lot of action and suspense. A man is being chased by a woman in the snowy forests of Sadelöga, Sweden. At one point, she shoots him and he falls in the freezing waters of the Baltic Sea. Soon thereafter, Jason Bourne fishes out the wounded man, but he’s lost all his memory. Who is this man? Who is after him? Why? Then Bourne learns that a Mossad agent, Rebeka—whose life he saved—is now being hunted by her former colleagues. Why is she on the run?
Mr. Lustbader’s writing is fast-paced, intriguing and enjoyable. The first few chapters introduce a lot of characters and many storyline threads. It is easier to connect the dots and understand everything the first time if the reader is familiar with the previous novels in the Bourne series. Still, the plot unfolds well, and the characters have depth and great personalities.
The story moves to the Treadstone directors Peter Marks and Soraya Moore. They are searching for Nicodemo, a notorious assassin. The President of the US, however, has planted his own man within the Treadstone, and his mission is to find Jason Bourne.
Who is the mystical man they call Nicodemo? Will Rebeka be able to evade the Mossad’s foremost assassin, known as the Babylonian? How does it all link back to the Treadstone and to Jason Bourne?
Please enjoy my review of The Bourne Imperative by Eric Van Lustbader.
Thanks,
Ethan
The Bourne Imperative starts right, as any spy thriller should, with a lot of action and suspense. A man is being chased by a woman in the snowy forests of Sadelöga, Sweden. At one point, she shoots him and he falls in the freezing waters of the Baltic Sea. Soon thereafter, Jason Bourne fishes out the wounded man, but he’s lost all his memory. Who is this man? Who is after him? Why? Then Bourne learns that a Mossad agent, Rebeka—whose life he saved—is now being hunted by her former colleagues. Why is she on the run?
Mr. Lustbader’s writing is fast-paced, intriguing and enjoyable. The first few chapters introduce a lot of characters and many storyline threads. It is easier to connect the dots and understand everything the first time if the reader is familiar with the previous novels in the Bourne series. Still, the plot unfolds well, and the characters have depth and great personalities.
The story moves to the Treadstone directors Peter Marks and Soraya Moore. They are searching for Nicodemo, a notorious assassin. The President of the US, however, has planted his own man within the Treadstone, and his mission is to find Jason Bourne.
Who is the mystical man they call Nicodemo? Will Rebeka be able to evade the Mossad’s foremost assassin, known as the Babylonian? How does it all link back to the Treadstone and to Jason Bourne?