Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Jason Bourne returns to Georgetown University and the mild world of his alter ego, David Webb, hoping for normalcy. But after so many adrenaline-soaked years of risking his life, Bourne finds himself chafing under the quiet life of a linguistics professor. Aware of his frustrations, his academic mentor, Professor Specter, asks for help investigating the murder of a former student by a previously unknown Muslim extremist sect. The young man died carrying information about the group's terrorist activities, including an immediate plan to attack the United States. The organization, the Black Legion, and its lethal plot have also popped up on the radar of Central Intelligence, where new director Veronica Hart is struggling to assert her authority. Sensing an opportunity to take control of CI by showing Hart's incompetence, National Security Agency operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could-hunt down and kill Bourne. In Europe, Bourne's investigation into the Black Legion turns into one of the deadliest and most tangled operations of his double life-the pursuit of the leader of a murderous terrorist group with roots in the darkest days of World War II-all while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute . . . After the death of his best friend in the last book, Jason Bourne returns to Georgetown University. He hopes to return to some sense of normalcy as his alter ego, David Webb, a professor of languages. However, it is not to be. After so many years of risking his life in the world of spy and counter spy, Bourne finds himself bored. Aware of his frustrations, his academic mentor, Professor Specter, asks for help investigating the murder of a former student by a previously unknown Muslim extremist sect known as the Black Legion with roots back to World War II. The young man died carrying information about the group's terrorist activities, including an immediate plan to attack the United States. The organization has also popped up on the radar of Central Intelligence, where new director Veronica Hart is struggling to assert her authority and to keep from being absorbed by the National Security Agency. Sensing an opportunity to take control of CI, National Security Agency operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could, hunt down and kill Jason Bourne. In Europe, Bourne's investigation into the Black Legion turns into one of the deadliest and most tangled operations of his double life. Additional, he faces a brillant assassin also trained by Treadstone and just as deadly as Jason himself.
What do You think about Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction (2010)?
I love the series and have already started The Bourne Deception.
—hallie
Another try at capturing Ludlum's style. Worth the read.
—tye
