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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Sanction

By: Eric Van Lustbader
Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
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About this listen

From an idea by Robert Ludlum.

For Jason Bourne, forever caught between two identities - mild-mannered linguist David Webb and lethal super-spy - life can never be ordinary. But when his old mentor, Professor Spector, installs him as head of the comparative linguistics department at Georgetown University, it seems he may have found a measure of normalcy at last.

That is, until a hitherto unknown terrorist organisation comes up on Central Intelligence radar, with a plan to execute a major attack on the East Coast of the United States within a week. Without sufficient hard intelligence to back them up, and with competing intelligence organisations keen to undermine new director of Central Intelligence Veronica Hart, they have no choice but to employ a rogue agent capable of hunting down a shadowy terrorist mastermind on his own: Jason Bourne.

Suddenly, Bourne is plunged into the deadliest and most tangled operation of his double life: pursuing the head of the Black Legion - a murderous terror group with its roots in the darkest days of World War II - while his own side tries to take him down. And all the while, an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute.

©2008 Eric Van Lustbader (P)2010 Orion Publishing Group Suspense Thriller & Suspense Linguistics

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The music added to dramatic scenes like the fights is nauseous and just tacky, totally put me off.

The usual good plot and characters

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loved it great narrator more please listened every spare minute really pleased with the purchase

jason bourne

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Captivating with abrilliant twist. Jason Bourne is sensational as usual

Jason Bourne does it again

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Great story to listen to and Briliantly narrated. Lustbader doing a brill job taking over from Ludlum Akardin Bourne's nemasis is a great villan you rearly get to know him in this book and understand why he is like he is he is certainly a match for Bourne better in some ways. These stories certainly take you to many diferent places around the world Well worth the 5 stars I have given it.

Bourne Sanction

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This was so monotonous, I struggled to follow the story all the characters sounded the same. I didn't even bother to finish it...

dull

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otherwise not a bad book! Nice to have the Bourne books continuing!
onto next one!

worst English accent since Dick Van Dyke

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The narrator was cool, calm and extremely clinical. Bourne is hot, sublime and extremely, out of this world. Superb and amazing!

Outstanding!

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I have been enjoying the Bourne series as they have been full of action with a clearly defined plot line. The Bourne Sanction however, seems to have lost the plot. The centre section was so slow and embroiled with Russian names and accents, I lost track of who was who and who were the bad guys. Several times I almost gave up as I was bored (never before happened in a Bourne book) but I persisted and the "end game" when it came was somewhat rushed as if the author wanted to just finish it off.

Such a shame. I have the rest of the series to listen to so I hope this was just a blip. Lustbader is normally better than this and after listening to this I would say David Baldacci is winning in this genre.

Disappointing

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I listened to the Bourne Sanction whilst driving home from work or just before going to bed and have to say that I struggled to establish the characters firmly in my head. I found that I had to go back and listen again to make sure I remembered which character was which but I think this was because I didn't absorb the character names easily. I also missed a book in the series and so spent sometime trying to work out what had happened to Marie, Bournes wife.



The above aside, on the whole I thought the book was well written fast paced, exciting and absorbing once I got into it. I really enjoyed the book and will be purchasing others in the series.



The Bourne Sanction

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I was really disappointed in The Bourne Sanction. It is long winded, complicated and convoluted and quite difficult to follow. I was tempted not to finish it, but I kept hoping that it would improve. The narration was overdone.

Does not live up to the previous Bourne books.

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