The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum, 611 pages.
It is hard for me to put into words how good this book was
except maybe to give an example. In the last two days I have read over four
hundred pages of it and have only grudgingly put it down.
The Bourne Ultimatum is probably my favorite of the trilogy
as it continues the main story line of Jason’s hunt for Carlos the Jackal. This
third book also introduces a “new” threat in the form of a modern day Medusa. With
both of these shadowy organizations come webs of spies and informers, along
with traps for Bourne and those helping him.
There are a lot of little things that Ludlum mentions that
make the story easier to accept as believable. Where some novel series never
show the character aging or showing signs of age, Ludlum does. This not only
makes the characters believable but changes the super-agent story enough to
make it something different. He also doesn’t make anyone near invincible or
extremely lucky. Each person does what you expect they can do.
While this is the final book of the Bourne trilogy written by
Ludlum it’s not the end of the Bourne series which still continues thanks to
Eric Van Lustbader. Hopefully his writings will be of the same quality and
detail that Ludlum put into all of his works.
A fellow blogger on here (Tiger Reed) has suggested reading all
of Ludlum’s books. At first I was thinking my reading list was long enough as
it is, but after seeing how Ludlum can spin a novel together I might just have
to make room.
P.S. The conch shell getting stabbed by a railroad spike was
back on the cover. I noticed its disappearance with the second novel, maybe it
only has something to do with the hunt for the Jackal?
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