Eric Van Lustbader, read by Jeremy Davidson. Hachette Audio, abridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-60941-208-1
The latest installment in the Jason Bourne series finds the amnesiac superspy on a mission to prevent terrorists from bringing America to its knees via destruction of the country’s vital natural resources—all while he tries to reconcile his...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Grand Central, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-56444-1
Lustbader's complicated, action-packed sixth contribution (after The Bourne Objective) to Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne franchise pits the legendary, amnesiac superagent against longtime pal Boris Karpov, now head of Russia's secret police unit, FSB-2
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-449-21849-5
This hefty novel packs two grisly murders, a large cast of exotic characters, and settings that range from Connecticut to Indochina. Although the first two-thirds are entertaining, according to PW , afterwards Lustbader ``succumbs to windy...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-449-21851-8
As elaborate as its predecessors The Ninja and The Miko , this epic melodrama set in present-day Japan features Japanese tanjian sorcery, troubled family histories, crime and political intrigue. ``A distinctly good time for the unabashed thriller-rea
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-449-21852-5
Intelligence agent Tori Nunn's travails involve divergent scenarios around the globe, from cocaine smuggling to an anti-Communist plot, in this somewhat tedious novel. (Feb.)
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-671-70349-3
The sixth novel in Lustbader's Nicholas Linnear series, in which technology and big business become battlegrounds for Japanese and American mafias. (Mar.)
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author Pocket Books $23 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-00329-6
Nicolas Linnear's sidekick, Lew Croaker (an ex-New York cop with a biomechanical hand), takes center stage in Lustbader's latest thriller (after Second Skin), which forsakes ninja action for a murky mix of murder, magic and organ thievery. Recently...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2974-5
In Lustbader's long-winded third McClure-Carson novel (after Last Snow), dyslexic Homeland Security agent Jack McClure sets out to save 23-year-old Alli Carson, whom he rescued in the first book, First Daughter, after she's accused of murdering her...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . Carroll & Graf/Penzler $12 (87p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0889-5
Tess Chase is into the arts—fine and martial—as the heroine of this slender, mildly diverting thriller, in which the allegedly genteel milieu of art dealing intersects with the sleazy world of a notorious New York crime family. When a...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8551-2
Bestseller Lustbader (The Testament) skillfully blends supernatural horror with a gripping military thriller. When an operation in Pakistan goes wrong for Red Rover, a black-op private security team handling the dirtiest of wet work for the NSA,...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3339-1
More is less in bestseller Lustbader’s fourth globe-trotting thriller to feature former national security adviser Jack McClure (after 2011’s Blood Trust). In Moscow, an assassin interrupts Jack’s lovemaking session with his Russian sweetheart,...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Grand Central, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4555-5095-1
Lustbader's eighth thriller continuing the Ludlum franchise (after 2012's The Bourne Imperative) is burdened with groan-inspiring prose ("she arched her back, her heavy breasts crowned with dark nipples rising out of the water like questing sea...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Grand Central, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4789-7953-1
Lustbader's workmanlike ninth contribution to the Bourne franchise (after 2013's The Bourne Retribution) finds Jason Bourne on a routine assignment, posing as a high-level functionary at an international summit in the Middle East. The action picks...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author Grand Central $27.99 (423p) ISBN 978-0-446-53982-1
Shadowy master assassin Jason Bourne spends too much time offstage in bestseller Lustbader’s cliché-ridden fourth thriller in the Ludlum franchise (after The Bourne Sanction
). Having pushed his latest archenemy, Russian Leonid Arkadin,
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . Tor $27.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-312-87235-9
An imaginative, otherworldly culture clash between technology and spirituality fires this ambitious first novel in a projected multivolume epic fantasy from bestseller Lustbader (Angel Eyes; French Kiss; etc.). Under the oppressive rule of the...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . Tor $27.95 (672p) ISBN 978-0-312-87236-6
Bestseller Lustbader offers the second installment in an ambitious fantasy saga both sketchy and overly detailed. Having saved the besieged planet Kundala from destruction in The Ring of Five Dragons
(2001), Riane, the magically transformed and...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . Tor $27.95 (592p) ISBN 978-0-312-87237-3
Fans of bestseller Lustbader will welcome the third hefty installment in his Pearl fantasy series (after 2002's The Veil of a Thousand Tears
), with its wildly complex plot, breathless action and jaw-breaking nomenclature (Khagggun, Mesagggun,...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-33175-7
Veteran thriller maestro Lustbader (Black Heart
, etc.) seizes the reins of Robert Ludlum's bestselling Jason Bourne series, proving that even Ludlum's death can't stop the ex-CIA operative. David Webb, a mild-mannered Georgetown...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . Forge $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1463-5
Bestseller Lustbader (The Bourne Legacy
) jumps on the Da Vinci Code
bandwagon with this high-octane but familiar tale of yet another lost gospel that would rock the Catholic world. This time, the secret for which the faithful are not prepared is...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . Warner $25.99 (486p) ISBN 978-0-446-58037-3
In Lustbader's workmanlike second novel to continue the saga of Robert Ludlum's amnesiac assassin and spy (after 2004's The Bourne Legacy
), Jason Bourne joins the war on terror. Troubled by visions of a woman dying in his arms, Bourne...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . Forge $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2170-1
In this uneven thriller from bestseller Lustbader (The Bourne Legacy
), Alli Carson, the 19-year-old daughter of the U.S. president-elect, moderate Republican Edward Carson, is abducted a month before her father's inauguration to be programmed...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author Fawcett Books $19.95 (518p) ISBN 978-0-449-90494-7
Nicholas Linnear, hero of The Ninja and The Miko , is back in another epic melodrama set in present-day Japan, this time concerning primal Japanese tanjian sorcery, troubled family histories, sex crimes, magic jewels, marital problems, the opium...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . Forge $25.99 (414p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2515-0
Bestseller Lustbader's wordy sequel to First Daughter
takes dyslexic Jack McClure, former ATF agent and now adviser to recently elected U.S. president Edward Carson, to Moscow, where Carson is negotiating an important treaty with Russian...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author . Grand Central $27.99 (437p) ISBN 978-0-446-53981-4
Lustbader's cookie-cutter fifth Jason Bourne novel in the Ludlum franchise (after The Bourne Deception
) downgrades the title character to a mere co-star with villain Leonid Arkadin, a graduate of the same covert training program, who also...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author Fawcett Books $19.95 (520p) ISBN 978-0-449-90495-4
This latest Lustbader ( White Ninja ) creation reads as if it is three novels in one. The narrative skips among various locations in America, Tokyo, Moscow, as well as a brief sojourn in Colombia, with each setting entailing a whole new cast of...
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Eric Van Lustbader, read by Holter Graham. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $34.98 ISBN 978-1-61113-452-0
In this audio edition of the latest installment in the Jason Bourne series, narrator Holter Graham provides distinctive, appropriately accented voices—not only for the book's self-reliant and indestructible hero—but also for a mysterious amnesiac he
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Eric Van Lustbader, read by Holter Graham. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 13.75 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-1-4789-7952-4
Narrator Graham turns in a fine performance in this audio edition of Lustbader’s latest installment in the Jason Bourne series. Bourne is still mourning the death of Mossad agent Rebeka, one of the only people he ever cared about, when he takes on...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Star Books $6.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-671-86807-9
Ninja Nicholas Linnear infiltrates the Japanese underworld in Lustbader's fast-paced thriller. (July)
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-86806-2
Lustbader ( White Ninja , etc.) brings back Nicholas Linnear in this fast-moving thriller that combines the trademark Lustbader ingredients of Eastern mysticism and international intrigue. Because of a promise made to his father, Linnear finds...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author, Scott Sowers, Read by, Scott Brick, Read by , read by Scott Brick. Audio Renaissance $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-514-2
Brick seems completely comfortable sitting in the narrator's seat of Lustbader's (Black Heart
, etc.) substantial espionage thriller, which brings Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne back for a fourth outing. Bourne's peaceful life as a...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author, Jeremy Davidson, Read by , read by Jeremy Davidson. Hachette $49.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-599-2
Lustbader resurrects Ludlum's hero in this thriller that fails to recapture the intensity of the original but still packs plenty of punches. This time around, Jason Bourne must track down his would-be assassin, but finds himself in the middle...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author, Jeremy Davidson, Read by , read by Jeremy Davidson. Hachette Audio $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-294-6
Globe-trotting secret agent Jason Bourne returns in the third installment under the helm of Lustbader, who struggles to captivate as convincingly and effectively as Ludlum did in the original novels. Amid a cheesy prologue that features corny...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author, Lustbader, Author Atria Books $22 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-86808-6
Lustbader fans will herald the coming of this latest adventure in the astonishingly turbulent life of half-Asian, half-Caucasian, all-hero fighting machine Nicholas Linnear. Newcomers to the author's idiosyncratic work, however, may have trouble...
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Eric Van Lustbader, Author, Lustbader, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Atria Books $22 (464p) ISBN 978-0-671-86810-9
Sex, violence and violent sex, plus lots of hokey Eastern mysticism--in other words, typical Lustbader fare--dominate the action in this sixth Nicholas Linnear novel, which brings to a close events begun in The Kaisho and continued in Floating City.
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Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1
Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs a top-rank female thriller writer with a male counterpart. Sandra Brown’s Lee Coburn and C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett send...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8857-5
In bestseller Lustbader’s busy sequel to 2007’s religious conspiracy thriller The Testament, Aldus Reichmann, nauarchus of the Knights of Saint Clement of the Holy Land, sends freelance antiquities hunter Valentin Kite to Lebanon to find the cave...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8860-5
A small accident propels bestseller Lustbader’s turgid third Testament novel (after 2017’s The Fallen). Aboard a private plane above the Mediterranean en route home to New York City, artifacts expert Emma Shaw studies a centuries-old manuscript that’
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Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8863-6
In bestseller Lustbader’s dense, complex fourth Testament novel (after 2018’s Four Dominions), artifacts expert Emma Shaw and her scholar brother, Bravo, must stop Lucifer (aka the Sum of All Shadows) from destroying the very fabric of heaven. With...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-75117-1
Fans of bestseller Lustbader’s contributions to the Jason Bourne franchise (Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Initiative, etc.) will welcome this outstanding series launch. Evan Ryder, a field agent in a black ops shop, works deep within the Department of...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-75121-8
At the start of bestseller Lustbader’s exciting sequel to 2020’s The Nemesis Manifesto, Evan Ryder, a former field agent for a now dismantled intelligence unit funded by the Department of Defense, learns that her sister, Bobbi Fisher, who Evan...
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Eric Van Lustbader. Forge, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-83910-7
Bestseller Lustbader’s intricate third espionage novel featuring Evan Ryder (after 2021’s The Kobalt Dossier) finds Evan and Ben Butler, her boss and partner, still fighting Omega, the secret organization bent on starting a second U.S. civil war and
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