The Bourne Legacy (novel)
The Bourne Legacy first edition cover
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| Author |
Robert Ludlum (Series creator) Eric Van Lustbader |
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| Cover artist | Craig White |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jason Bourne |
| Genre | Spy novel |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
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Publication date
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June 22, 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 464 pp (First edition) |
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| OCLC | 55488053 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3562.U752 R63 2004 |
| Preceded by | The Bourne Ultimatum |
| Followed by | The Bourne Betrayal |
The Bourne Legacy is a 2004 spy fiction thriller written by Eric Van Lustbader. It is the fourth novel in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum and the first to be written by Lustbader. He has also written eight more novels in the series, The Bourne Betrayal, The Bourne Sanction, The Bourne Deception, The Bourne Objective, The Bourne Dominion, The Bourne Imperative, The Bourne Retribution and The Bourne Ascendancy.
With the climactic events of The Bourne Ultimatum behind him, Jason Bourne is able to once again become David Webb, now professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. However, this serenity does not last for long and, when a silenced gunshot narrowly misses Webb's head, the Bourne Persona awakens in him yet again.
Bourne's first objective is to get to his longtime friend and handler at the CIA, Alex Conklin.
However, unbeknownst (as yet) to Bourne, a Hungarian by the name of Stepan Spalko has now drawn Jason into a web—one which he cannot escape as easily as his professorial façade.
Finding Alex dead along with Doctor Morris Panov, Bourne realizes the trap as soon as he hears the police arriving. With his car outside and his fingerprints in the house, he immediately understands that he has been framed.
So, with only Conklin's cell phone and a torn page from a notebook to go on, Jason Bourne sets off to find out who's trying to kill him and who killed his friends.
After warning Marie and his two children, Jamie and Alyssa, to proceed immediately towards their safe house, he slips through the CIA cordon and makes his way to an independent agent who was talking to Alex Conklin when he was killed. Having received travel plans to Hungary and a mission to meet Janos Vadas, Conklin's contact in Hungary, he proceeds to unravel the truth behind why Alex and Morris Panov were killed.
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