If your anything like me and have started reading Eric Van Lusterbader's NEW! book series after "The Jason Bourne" series of books that he co-wrote with Robert Ludlum or if you haven't gotten into this latest book series then I strongly suggest you start as where the hell have you been if you haven't read these books or why not? these are just as amazing, fast paced as the "Jason Bourne" books and just as action packed as these books.
I first started reading these books purely by accident but completely loved the first book as I was about to go on a family holiday and I'd forgotten to pack a book I was reading at the time so I went into the WHSmith's store that was in the departure lounge and found "The Bourne Enigma" and absolutely loved this book and just completely tore into this book and had to know if there was a second book to this...I think I may have annoyed everyone in my family with how much I would talk about this book and how I would read a bit of both "The Bourne Enigma" and " The Bourne Initiative" during the day and then read more at night and then talk about it the next day.
If you haven't read "The Bourne Enigma" I'll fill in the blanks for you, Jason Bourne is invited to Boris Karpov's wedding to a Ukrainian women who as Boris Karpov worked in Russian intelligence the Russian's don't trust her because of her being Ukrainian, but whilst Bourne is at the wedding Karpov tells Jason Bourne he needs to speak with him and that it is important, but before Karpov can tell Jason Bourne what he needs to tell him he ends up dead and his body is displayed in a way that makes the police think it was a religious ritualistic killing and immediately arrest Jason Bourne when they see him at the scene of the crime, but he talks the police into letting him go and finding out who actually did kill them and if he can't find them then the police could arrest him. Jason Bourne then finds out that this is the work of a known hitman Borz who is working with the Ukrainian, this leads to Jason Bourne having to track Borz down to Cairo and nearly dying from a poisoned dart in his hand but thankfully he has a friend Sara in the Egyptian intelligence who has also been tracking Borz down.
In "The Bourne Initiative" Jason Bourne's old friend Soraya Moore finds evidence of there being a international black weapons market online that sells everything from guns to chemical weapons and that there will be an online sale of an unknown weapon in a limited amount of days that will be unleashed on the world and to get into this market you need a encryption key which according to Moore's information involves Jason Bourne, but as she is a friend of Jason Bourne both her and Jason Bourne have no idea how this involves him. And more confusing for Jason Bourne an old "friend" of his contacts him out of the blue saying she can help and that this all somehow leads back to a known arms dealer/psychopath Kyrie who steals girls from villages and believes that if he tortures them and says spells that these girls will only be loyal to him no matter where they end up so,-he believes he is a witch doctor and imbued with the spirits of the gods,-anyway, Jason Bourne ends up having to kill his "friend" and Keyrie and destroying his whole camp as he it turns out is the one that's going to put on this black website's sale and that the website is run by the Russians and it ends with Jason Bourne and Sara watching his friend's sister dancing ballet as after he rescued both his friend and her sister from Keyrie's camp he set up a bank account for her as her little sister always wanted to be a ballet dancer in a big dance company and anonymously with Jason's help she achieved that.
And as you can imagine I Googled to see if there was going to be a third book in this series but annoyingly I found that the third book in this series was abandoned and that Eric Van Lusterbader had decided to stop writing the " The Jason Bourne" series of books and was going to start a new series of books so I naturally started reading this series of books which are just as amazing and you really need to read these if you haven't already.
The first two books in this NEW! series of books are called "The Nemesis Manifesto" and "The Kobalt Dossier" with a new heroine Evan Ryder.
If you haven't read "The Nemesis Manifesto" i'll fill in the blanks for you, Evan Ryder works for Ben Barnes who works for the Department Of Defence and has "his own shop" so to speak where he runs his own assignments for spies covertly and Evan Ryder is his best, and unfortunately this means lots of other countries want her dead, so she needs to find out who is coming after her and this leads her and another agent to find out about a underground well funded neo-Nazi group called Nemesis that captured and drugged her using experimental drugs and a Russian agent called Lukashenka before they escaped. It is then found out that this group is funded by people in high places included the secretary of the President of The United States and that he is really a spy working for the Russians and he has been recruiting other people and running a smear campaign against Ben Barnes saying he's been sending anti-semitic emails to people to stop him from investigating the group. But this ends with Evan Ryder and the other agent of Ben Barnes to blow up the compound of Nemesis.
"The Kobolt Dossier" is about how the Russians have their best spy who is trying to kill her, but her identity is so secretive only one man in the Russian intelligence network knows her real identity and this somehow involves Evan Ryder, her sister who died in a car accident and her family. So of course Evan Ryder goes to investigate when the FBI find that her nieces and nephews have gone missing along with their father who later turns up dead and with his head buried in the garden with a message in his mouth so of course the FBI think Evan Ryder has something to do with this and this leads back to a cult called Omega who is led by a women who has gone mad and really believes in the Bible story in Genesis where the sins of man will be cleaned from the Earth in one giant flood and only the chosen will survive and Evan Ryder learns that this woman not only believes this but she has kidnapped Evan Ryder's niece and nephew to do experiments on them to make "a perfect person" ie a human who is free from corruption, greed, hate and illness and she believes this all involves the brain.
So if this hasn't wet your appetite to get in to this book series I don't know what will but if your already wanting more then you are in luck...there is another book on the way that if your anything like me you'll already pre-ordered this but if you haven't I urge you to do this now, this NEW! book is called "Omega Rules" and is suppose to be out on the 24th May 2022...save this date for your diary.
And if you haven't pre-ordered this book yet you can find this on WHSmith's website now.
