Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Deception
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	Release Date	2009-06-09
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Action & Adventure  Ludlum, Robert  Suspense  Kindle Books  Contemporary Fiction
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Description
Afterwards Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to get on a new identity and mission- to locate out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Across the globe, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt-apparently by an Iranian missile-leaving the world wondering if it was an accident or an act of aggression. A massive global team lead by Soraya Moore is assembled to investigate the attack before the situation escalates. When Bourne's search for his would-be assassin intersects together with Soraya's search for the group behind the airplane bombing, Bourne is thrust into a race to prevent a new world war. But it may already be too late.
Customer Reviews
bourne deception   2010-08-31
By Antonio Sandoval (Alaska)
The writing is not Ludlum, it's a good story, but just not put together with the same authority of Ludlum.
comic book quality   2010-08-30
By Darrell Wilson (Utah)
I bought this book, excited to read another Bourne book. I was extremely disappointed. The plot is so fragmented and exaggerated as to be hard to enjoy. The characters are a strange collection, and fit together awkwardly. Bourne is hardly a minor character in the book, and is a mix of unbelievable and pitiful. I am a doctor, and tend to notice the medical and physical aspects of the injuries, fights, treatments, etc... I don't expect most books to be medically accurate, but most are close enough to not be detrimental to the plot. This book contains such absurd events that one would think that the author got his entire biological and scientific knowledge from comic books and a few episodes of ER and CSI. Overall this is a very poorly written book. I can't believe the editor let it through.
The Bourne Disgrace   2010-08-28
By Mercenary5291 (Brooklyn NY)
Yet another mind-bogglingly, badly written painful Bourne Sequel. Those who have not picked up on it yet or who haven't read the reviews and are still reading Lustbaders book know that Ludlums Bourne and LB Bourne are in actuality 2 different people. 1. Ludlums Bourne is actually well-trained, intelligent, and conflicted. He rarely gets injured unless it is with his arch-enemy the jackal and every single ambush that he lays down is executed flawlessly. It takes Ludlums Bourne only a fair amount of time to get to the bottom of things. Ludlums Bourne is truly a chameleon, who is rarely recognized as as impostor if ever and his impeccable rhetoric in any situation is more than enough for him to get what he wants or who he wants. 2. LB Bourne is ill-trained, unintelligent, and conflicted with all the wrong things. LB Bourne is injured around every corner and in every instant against even the most pathetic of enemies. None of his ambushes succeed and Bourne barely manages to escape with his life. it takes LB Bourne 3/4 if not the whole book to get to the bottom of things. LB Bourne's disguises never fool the target and only hasten his beatings. LB Bourne's lies are so bad, that one wonders if he should simply start with the truth. After seeing these observations ask yourself can they truly be the same Jason Bourne? In fact does LB "character" even deserve the name and title of Jason Bourne? Once you get past the fact that this is not Jason Bourne you can painfully finish this less-than-mediocre writing. The Bourne inconsistencies are only one side of the infinite number of problems in the LB Bourne series. I'll finish off this warning of a review with one last inescapable scenario: Ludlums chameleon is internationally feared and recognized by nearly every assassin, thug, crime boss and any government agency in the world. When villains and allies alike hear LB Bournes name they truly do not know who he is. This is more than enough proof that LB should recall all the books, make a press conference confessing his wrongdoings and then commit suicide.
The ultimate deception   2010-07-24
By Matthew Brooks (Hoover, AL United States)
I am not a snobby reader, I am really not. I have read most of Ludlum's books, but I've found something unfortunate: his books are good, however "Robert Ludlum's"--i.e. somebody else writing using his conceived environments--are not good (and this time is the last one. Fool me twice shame on me, I've learned this time). That said, this book is the greatest deception of them all, for it tries to sell itself as literature. I'll caution that I only read about 60%. I don't need to read 100% because I had this same impression about 10% of the way through. I am not reading further. Here is the problem with this book: it's absolutely crap. I mean that in all manners of the word. The writing is atrocious and the author owes us all a public apology. Among the problems: 1) Very little Jason Bourne. He is a small portion of the book, in fact. Most of it involves other characters who are not even in his time zone. 2) Very little research. The author clearly wrote this entire book in a weekend and the only research he did do was, to punish us as readers, of an incredibly boring nature, specifically Bali mysticism or some such tripe. I found the entire Bali soul-finding part of the book thoroughly uninteresting and pointless. And don't expect to learn more about Bourne, he's still stuck with the "Not sure what I remember and what is real and isn't." Pathetic, actually. 3) Although a problem, this one is also a marvelous success! Lustbader has created THE MOST unbelievable interactions ever, more unrealistic than a 7 year old writing a story about a princess who marries a dragon. The dialog between the president and his close staff is offensively ridiculous. For example it takes them about three pages to go from an attack from an unknown source with unknown motivatinos to being ready to declare war on a country. It really does, it was clear as day to me that Lustbader started that interaction at the beginning of his first beer and had set himself a personal goal to finish it before he grabbed another, so 8 minutes later it was done. 4) Stupendous coincidences. Some of the people Bourne ends up interacting with were placed as if the population of the earth must not exceed 30. Totally unbelievable. Any mediocre college grad with an English degree should be able to take the Bourne name and make something interesting out of it. Lustbader made something very uninteresting. If that was his goal he achieved remarkable success. Definitely going on my "Do not read books by this author" list. For shame.
Goes where Jason Bourne has never gone before...   2010-07-23
By Lawrence Bird (Virginia USA)
This is a solid tale, well written and filled with action from start to finish. Lustbader is a skilled keyboard jockey; however he takes the Bourne franchise into places neither frequented, nor anticipatable during the Ludlum years. Lustbader ends up with a little bit Clancy, little bit Stephen King, a dash of Ken Follett and (it seems) at little bit of simple self-adonration of the scrivener's art - in all this, Jason gets a little lost and confused, merely becoming a backdrop for a whole new flock of characters (most of whom do not survive the narrative) and a creature who dabbles in the pagan spirit realm, the melancholy of a long rehabilitation, but missing is the Jason Bourne intellect - where did it go... Distracting is the apparent political leanings of the author who captures much of the internet lore of modern security contracting and concocts a wide-ranging conspiracy-theory of breathtaking transparency, seemingly directly aimed at indicting a real-life security contractor. Nonetheless, although a little slow to get started, this is an enjoyable yarn if one can look past the politics inserted -- but don't expect to recognize many attributes of either the lead personality or the tone of the tale... all new, if entertaining, territory...