Robert Ludlum's The Bourne retribution

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne retribution

Eric Lustbader

Book - 2014

"Bourne's friend Eli Yadin, head of Mossad, learns that Ouyang Jidan, a senior member of China's Politburo, and a major Mexican drug lord may have been trafficking in something far more deadly than drugs. Yadin needs Bourne to investigate. Bourne agrees, but only because he has a personal agenda: Ouyang Jidan is the man who ordered Rebeka--one of the only people Bourne has ever truly cared about--murdered. Bourne is determined to avenge her death, but in the process he becomes enmeshed in a monstrous world-wide scheme involving the Chinese, Mexicans, and Russians."--Amazon.com.

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Bourne, Jason > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Intelligence officers > Fiction.
Terrorists > Fiction.
Spy fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Genres
Spy fiction
Action and adventure fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Published
New York : Grand Central Publishing 2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Eric Lustbader (author)
Other Authors
Robert Ludlum, 1927-2001 (-)
Edition
First oversize mass market edition
Physical Description
544 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN
9781455550944
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Lustbader's eighth thriller continuing the Ludlum franchise (after 2012's The Bourne Imperative) is burdened with groan-inspiring prose ("she arched her back, her heavy breasts crowned with dark nipples rising out of the water like questing sea creatures") and implausible action sequences, even by the series' low standards. Jason Bourne is heartbroken over the death of his latest amour, and is now working with Israeli intelligence. But his assignment to safeguard a senior Mossad official on a visit to Mexico is botched, and he's propelled into mind-numbing intrigue involving not only narcotics traffickers but rival Chinese factions. Sloppy errors, such as misusing the Hebrew word aliya as a synonym for penance, further defeat efforts to make all of this seem real. Whatever was original in Ludlum's initial conception of an amnesiac superagent in his trilogy has long been lost in a welter of cliches, with the worst saved for last. (Dec.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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