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De Bourne Vergelding (2000)

by Eric Van Lustbader(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Fiction

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Jason Bourne

review 1: Van Lustbader's Bourne books are never going to be the original Ludlum trilogy. Ludlum was much more cerebral and akin to classic spy novels. That being said, this book was Van Lustbader's best one since the first one he wrote. It was a sharp, taut, engaging thriller from start to finish, and I thought it was the best he has written the Jason Bourne character yet. A few books back I was ready to give up, but the last two - this one in particular - make me glad i didn't.
review 2: "The Bourne Retribution" by Eric Van Lustbader is, as the title implies, another adventure of the amnesiac spy, Jason Bourne. Except this one is different. The book deals with Jason Bourne after Rebeka's death, and how he hasn't gotten over it. Now, I remember in "The Bourne Legacy" wh... moreen Lustbader killed off Bourne's Psychiatrist Dr. Morris Panov, his old CIA Handler Alex Conklin, and Jason Bourne's wife. That was a sad moment, as the three people he had forged emotional connection to were killed for being involved with him, and he had to send his kids to their grandparents permanently for their protection. That weighed heavily on Bourne. The death of Rebeka, a Mossad agent who Bourne encountered twice, is given an entire melancholic novel, and treated with the same weight as the deaths of those three, because Bourne was apparently in love with her. I'm not saying he didn't love her, and I'm not saying her death is something to just skip over. But I find it just a bit surprising that a man who purposely stays away from people because they get killed being near him, is having this much trouble dealing with the death of one girl who he encountered twice. He didn't grieve this much for Arkadin, who was his enemy all of that time and Bourne realized he was just a sad man who was scarred by Conklin's training. The novel is still written in the Lustbader form that I've loved since "The Bourne Legacy." It's filled with action, he develops his characters and makes them more then just a name on a page, and breathes life into a series that I've heard been called "dead since The Bourne Ultimatum." Maybe this is just me, but I can't see Jason Bourne having this much difficulty getting over her death. The book is still good, it provides what you want in a Bourne novel, exciting action, a story devoid of almost all plot holes, and enemies who aren't just embittered Russians or stereotypically named terrorists you see in the majority of media today. Actually wait, scratch that, Boris Karpov, in "The Bourne Dominion" and his corrupt boss, were pretty embittered, and pretty stereotype Russian. less

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