In Print: The Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader

This was the fifth book in the Jason Bourne series that was invented by Robert Ludlum. Since Ludlum's been dead a while, this is the second book by another author, namely Eric Van Lustbader.

Van Lustbader continues the journey from The Bourne Legacy to integrate the character of Jason Bourne from the movies and the books. Plus it seems that he was thnking the same thing I was as I read the first three installments. The book starts off with the wife dead. She was possibly one of the most annoying characters in the Ludlum books. Immediately the kids are shipped off the Canada. There ends any links to the old books. From that point on Jason is just a very efficient assassin employed by the government. In this tale he's on the trail of terrorist looking to detonate a nuclear bomb in the US.

The nearly 500 pages of the book are dedicated to Jason, the terrorists, the CIA, and various governments taking turns screwing with each other. There are many very impressive twists in the plot. Loads of action. A lot to make you think.

As you would expect from a Jason Bourne book, it's a lot of fun, and a real page turner.