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after Bourne Is Ambushed And Nearly Killed While In Indonesia, He Fakes His Death To Take On A New Identity And Mission- To Find Out Who Is Trying To Assassinate Him. In The Process, Bourne Begins To Question Who He Really Is And What He Would Become If He No Longer Carried The Bourne Identity. Across The Globe, An American Passenger Airliner Is Shot Down Over Egypt-apparently By An Iranian Missile-leaving The World Wondering If It Was An Accident Or An Act Of Aggression. A Massive Global Team Lead By Soraya Moore Is Assembled To Investigate The Attack Before The Situation Escalates. when Bourne's Search For His Would-be Assassin Intersects With Soraya's Search For The Group Behind The Airplane Bombing, Bourne Is Thrust Into A Race To Prevent A New World War. But It May Already Be Too Late. publishers Weekly 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 Possesses Almost Superhuman Combat Skills. Bourne And Arkadin's Globe-trotting Pursuit Of Each Other Drives The Main Plot, Which Includes Yet Another Secret Cabal Bent On World Domination, Severus Domna. The Members Of Severus Domna Have Their Eye On A Ring Bourne Possesses That's A Clue To The Location Of King Solomon's Legendary Gold. Arkadin's Use Of Silly Aliases (e.g., Stanley Kowalski, Frank N. Stein) Dissipates Any Effort At Realism, While Implausible And Formulaic Side Stories Involving Soraya Moore, Ousted From Her Position With The Cia, Don't Help. Those Who Don't Mind Bourne's Devolution From The Tortured Amnesiac Soul Ludlum Created Into A Stock Action Hero Will Be Most Satisfied. (june)