The Bourne Ultimatum
On sale
23rd December 2009
Price: £10.99
Genre
Adventure / Crime & Mystery / Espionage & Spy Thriller / Legal Thriller / Suspense
A death at a funfair, and Bourne must face his nemesis…The third Jason Bourne novel from internationally bestselling author Robert Ludlum.
‘The real titan of the genre is Robert Ludlum’ GQ
‘Watch your back 007 – Bourne is out to get you’ – Sunday Times
It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne’s age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy.
In Europe and America there are men and women whose lust for power is disguised by their positions and respectability. Their aim: to gain control at the highest level, to avenge, to destroy.
Jason Bourne has been the assassin before: now he longs for peace with his family, but the threat of the Jackal puts in jeopardy all possibility of peace…
‘The real titan of the genre is Robert Ludlum’ GQ
‘Watch your back 007 – Bourne is out to get you’ – Sunday Times
It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne’s age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy.
In Europe and America there are men and women whose lust for power is disguised by their positions and respectability. Their aim: to gain control at the highest level, to avenge, to destroy.
Jason Bourne has been the assassin before: now he longs for peace with his family, but the threat of the Jackal puts in jeopardy all possibility of peace…
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Reviews
A writer who bests the bestsellers
Olympic style, all-out espionage
A fast-paced thriller from a reliable master
The real titan of the genre is Robert Ludlum
A page-turner of non-stop action
Bourne is more mysterious than Bond, more real than Batman and more complex than Bruce Willis
Superb... the pace and tension are stupendous, the solution devastating... compulsive entertainment
