Robert Ludlum's The Bourne ascendancy
Subtitle: a new Jason Bourne novel
By: by Eric Van Lustbader
Contributors: Ludlum, Robert, 1927-2001
Edition: First U.S. oversize mass market edition.
Series: Jason Bourne novels
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9781455577552
Subjects: Jason Bourne (Fictitious character); Intelligence officers; Undercover operations; Assassination; Terrorists; Arab-Israeli conflict; Fiction
Other titles: Bourne ascendancy
Description: Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne. Their target, however, isn't the minister Bourne impersonates ... it is Bourne himself. Kidnapped and transported to an underground bunker, Bourne finds himself face-to-face with an infamous terrorist named El Ghadan ("Tomorrow"). El Ghadan holds as his captive Soraya Moore, former co-director of Treadstone, and a close friend to Bourne, along with her two year old daughter. Meanwhile, the President of the United States is in the midst of brokering a historic peace treaty between the Israelis and the Palestinians -- an event that El Ghadan is desperate to prevent. He demands that Bourne carry out a special mission: kill the President. If Bourne refuses, Soraya and her daughter will die. Bourne must make a monstrous choice: save Soraya and her daughter, or save the President.