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| Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Betrayal | 
 enlarge | Author: Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher: Vision
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 3677
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 736
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0446618802
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446618809
ASIN: 0446618802
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn't realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically savvy group with ties from Africa, across the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne's every move, and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America.
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 Bourne Frees a Memory But Freezes When Action Is Needed: A Step Down from The Bourne Legacy July 9, 2007
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
The Bourne Betrayal is a bloated book with one significant plot development surprise in it. Be careful you don't find a spoiler with that surprise described in it or you will find this book to be very boring from beginning to end as the results you expect occur.
Under Deputy Director Martin Lindros, Central Intelligence has been reforming itself to become more effective in combating terrorists. But not everyone is happy about that progress, including the terrorists. Based on a lead that suggests a risk of nuclear terror, Lindros returns to the field. Meanwhile everyone else wants to play politics to advance their own self interests. Jason Bourne is naturally concerned because Lindros is his only friendly ally.
Meanwhile, Bourne is struggling with recurring images of a young woman dying in his arms that he associates with the death of his wife. What's worse than amnesia?: being tortured by the thought that he may bear enormous guilt for the deaths of others. How can he clear his mind? The methods he tries have unexpected consequences.
Soon, Bourne is brought into the search for the terrorist threat . . . but he's curiously ineffective at what he does. He stumbles as he travels a road into lots of hostile territory to stop the threat. Naturally, each stop on the road is filled with violent confrontations that often wound Bourne.
If you are a Lustbader fan, you'll find this book hews closer to the Lustbader type of action thriller than to the Ludlum style. I suspect that after The Bourne Betrayal there will be so little of the Ludlum story line left that it will be like starting up a new thriller series.
The book's biggest weaknesses come in two areas: The technology employed is science fiction rather than being plausible and the characters are merely names that have an emotion or two attached to them.
The book's biggest strength comes in its realistic portrayal of how underground facilities might be stormed and subdued by small hostile forces. Whenever the book moves underground, the story brightens a bit.
For my taste the book could have been 200 pages shorter and it would have been more appealing. The extra length didn't do much to add either suspense or excitement to the story.
Unless you feel compelled to know everything possible about Jason Bourne, you could skip this book. Its impact on the character can be captured in a few short sentences in the next book in the series.
If you haven't read The Bourne Legacy, you'll probably like this book even less than I did.
If you decide to read this book, consider how appearances can be deceiving and how you can look past such false appearances to get at the inner truth.
 Oh Dear, oh dear. August 16, 2007
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I'm a big Bourne fan and have read all the books. This one, I am sorry to report, is dreadful.
You expect to have to suspend reality a bit when reading books in this genre, but I felt my intelligence was really being insulted this time. Things occur all through the book that go beyond stretching reality to ignoring it altogether. Furthermore, I feel a book has really failed when it's long on description and short on atmosphere. This one dives into long detailed descriptions almost seeming like 'padding' but fails to involve the reader emotionally at all. It feels like it was a writing assignment rather than an inspired book. What a shame to end the Bourne series on a low note.
 Good Addition To the Bourne Story! June 21, 2007
20 out of 40 found this review helpful
Bourne is under treatment by Dr Sunderland because of his flashbacks.
Dr Sunderland is actually Costin Veintrop. Veintrop is altering Bourne's
mind to help make an evil plot possible. Veintrop is on the payroll of Fadi the terrorist and his brother Karim al-Jamil.The Deputy Director of
CI Martin Lindros is on a mission in Ethiopia in the Ras Dejen region.
He has found evidence that a nuclear weapon is being prepared for an attack on America. He is captured by the terrorist Fadi. Bourne launches
a rescue of Lindros. After they get back home Bourne begins to wonder if
it was really Lindros that he has rescued. Lindros is the head of an agency in CI called Typhon. Typhon is responsible for fighting the terrorist group called Dujja. Bourne gains a valuable ally from Typhon named Soraya. They begin a global effort to stop Dujja from detonating the
nuclear device. While wondering about Lindros they also discover treason
within the ranks of CI. This turned out to be a very good book. It is in the role of past Bourne books. Be sure to read it.
Worst book Van Lustbader has ever published June 21, 2007
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
I've got almost every book he's ever published in my library. He's been fun to read for years now. This, however, is easily the worst thing he's ever done. The action scenes are obviously written with a movie in mind. The activities inside his "CI" don't relate to any kind of real world organization. In a high profile intelligence operation like CI one simply cannot accept the overnight changes brought about by one of the characters. Our hero suffering from debilitating mental instabilities still miraculously operates at higher-than-Bond levels whilst simultaneously speaking Amharic, Arabic, etc., etc. I'm about to attempt to return the book to Amazon.
Disappointment for Bourne fans November 11, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Having read most of the Bourne stories, I was expecting a lot more than what this book delivered. I think that, to a certain extent, there will always be a comparison between Ludlum's Bourne and Lustbader's Bourne. Unfortunately the two are not the same. Partly, there is also some fatigue factor involved and, add to that, the fact that very little of the workings of the machinery inside Bourne's head is described. Overall, a disappointment for Bourne fans.
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