

Series fans will look forward to more contributions to the Bourne franchise from this talented author.As mentioned, he was a prolific writer who wrote for decades. Freeman supplies plenty of exciting fight scenes and plot twists, but his convincing use of Bourne's fraught backstory is what distinguishes this entry. Three years later, Nova has died in a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nev., and Bourne is in London, where he's trying to prevent a mysterious world-class assassin known as Lennon, who has a lethal girlfriend code-named Yoko, from killing a Russian ecoterrorist out to strike a blow against Russian oligarchs. In fact, he was referring to Lennon, as in John Lennon.

During a subsequent clash with FSB agents, Bourne hears one of the Russians say the name Lenin. As they escort Kotov through the streets of Tallinn, Bourne hears a Beatles song from a distant radio. Thriller Award winner Freeman's worthy sequel to 2020's The Bourne Evolution finds Bourne, "the man with no memory and no past," and love interest Nova, his partner in the Treadstone spy organization, in Tallinn, Estonia, on a doomed mission to rescue a U.S. And with the body count rising, he comes to an inevitable conclusion: Some secrets should stay buried. As Bourne engages in a cat-and-mouse game with Lennon across the British countryside, he discovers that everything he thought he knew about the past was a lie. Bourne is a lone operative, working in the shadows for Treadstone, when he’s called in for a new mission in London-to prevent another assassination masterminded by Lennon.īut nothing about this mission is what it seems. Nova is gone, killed in a mass shooting in Las Vegas. The Russian died at the hands of a shadowy assassin known only by the nickname Lennon. Petersburg in the midst of an FSB manhunt. Their job was to rescue a Russian double agent who’d been smuggled out of St.
Three years ago, Jason Bourne embarked on a mission in Estonia with his partner and lover, a fiery Treadstone agent code-named Nova.

The world’s most ruthlessly efficient assassin, Jason Bourne, is facing the one force he can’t defeat-his own past-in the latest thrilling entry in Robert Ludlum’s New York Times bestselling series.
