Robert Ludlum’s the Treadstone Rendition

Set in 2021, Hood’s hard-hitting fourth contribution to this spin-off series from the late Ludlum’s Jason Bourne franchise (after 2022’s The Treadstone Transgression) finds Adam Hayes, no longer an operative for the CIA unit Treadstone, working as a private security contractor in Mumbai, where he gets a call from Abdul Nassim, the Afghan army captain who saved his life 10 years earlier. Nassim has evidence—a photograph and a thumb drive—that an American CIA paramilitary officer, Dominic Porter, has been selling American weapons to the Taliban, but Porter is on to Nassim and will kill him and his wife and three children if Hayes can’t get them all out of Afghanistan fast. Hayes heads into the chaos of the Afghanistan war’s final days on an against-all-odds rescue mission. Because he’s no longer allied with Treadstone, he’s on his own, and it’s a long grueling battle from beginning to end as he’s pitted against the treasonous Porter as well as the deadly commander of the Taliban elite Blood Unit. Treadstone fans will get their money’s worth. Agent: John Talbot, Talbot Fortune. (Apr.)