With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles & paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President is forced to establish his own clandestine group Covert-One
- selected from the very best operators America has to offer. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale & time is running out. In Northern Uganda an American Special Forces team is wiped out by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women & children possessing almost supernatural speed & strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, & all but the most devastating injuries. Covert-One's top operative, Army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack & finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity & then going dormant. This time, though, it's different. The infection is purposely being kept alive & the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to make a deal for a biological weapon to unleash on the West. As Smith & his team are cut off from all outside support, they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play forces that can be traced to Washington itself.
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Of all Robert Ludlum's bestsellers, the Jason Bourne novels remain among his most-read & most-loved books. With THE BOURNE LEGACY, Eric Van Lustbader brought Bourne to a whole new audience. Now he's back, & the stakes are higher than ever, as he undetakes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium. Once safely back in America, Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terrorists buying the nuclear material. Bourne agrees
- but soon suffers from confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places & events. Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail? This audiobook has 5 CDs & has a runtime of 300 mins
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Jason Bourne's nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail & the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter & hunted. When Bourne is ambushed & badly wounded, he fakes his death & goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, & begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down. Bourne's search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people that brought down the airliner, leading him into one of the most deadly & challenging situations he has ever encountered. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth & find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis ...

Jason Bourne is on the run.

The NSA believes Bourne controls the cyber weapon devised by his old friend, General

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Of all Robert Ludlum's bestsellers, the Bourne novels are the ones that have intrigued his thousands of readers the most. A man without a past is washed into the nets of a fishing boat. He is barely alive & has no knowledge of who he is or how he got there. All he has is a passport in the name of Jason Bourne
- a man, it seems, who has many deadly skills & even more deadly enemies. Over the course of three books, THE BOURNE IDENTITY, THE BOURNE SUPREMACY & THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, he gradually comes to realize who & what he really is
- a strange amalgam of his original self, a man named David Webb, & the deadly killer identity that goes by the name Jason Bourne. An identity that many would like to see gone forever. David Webb is now living a peaceful life as a university professor in the backwoods of America with his wife & children. But from the other side of the world someone is striving to take him out; a deadly assassin in on his trail & his former handler has been brutally murdered already. It seems that David Webb must once again turn to Bourne to save his life & family. This audiobook has 6 CDs & has a runtime of 395 mins

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A national symbol of romance since the 1970s, Redford's stardom has often eclipsed the life & trials of the man himself. In this biography -- written with Redford's personal papers, journals, script notes, correspondence, & hundreds of hours of taped interviews -- Michael Feeney Callan strips away the Hollywood facade, exposing the complicated, surprising man beneath. The life of Robert Redford is a series of contradictions: descended from impoverished East Coast barbers on his father's side & once-wealthy Texans on his mother's side, the young Redford suffered from aimlessness & semi-poverty, dropping out of college & briefly spending time in jail before launching a career in theatre. Redford has contributed more -- & more widely -- to entertainment than most stars of his calibre. As an actor, he's appeared on Broadway & film, with an Oscar-nominated performance in 1973's The Sting. As a director, he's earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture & Best Director & has received three Golden Globe nominations for Best Director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1980 for Ordinary People. & as a producer of independent films -- including the patronage of his Sundance Institute -- he's worked on films including All the President's Men & 2004's The Motorcycle Diaries. This is a fascinating exploration of one of our most celebrated & least understood public figures, & an essential read for anyone interested in the rocky road to Hollywood. ...

A biography that offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by depression into a life of helpless, poignant sadness. It frees Schumann from one hundred & fifty years of myth-making & unjustified psychological speculation. ...

A Conservative with a record as a winner, Robert L. Stanfield (1914-2003) brought Diefenbaker's fragmented Tories to high ratings in the polls & came within two seats of defeating Trudeau in the 1972 federal election. This work focuses on the kind of Progressive Conservative Stanfield was during his years of active national political leadership. ...

At the height of his television fame on The Man From UNCLE, Robert Vaughn was one of Hollywoods most eligible bachelors, with countless adoring female fans. His affairs with famous celebrities, including Natalie Wood, made front-page news. But Vaughn is not just a handsome face, ? he is a talented stage, television & film actor with strong political convictions & literary interests. In this fascinating biography Vaughn recounts his memories of a golden era in Hollywood & the highs & lows of life as a successful actor, from hot dates with starlets, to having an FBI file because of his anti-Vietnam stance, to being caught up in the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968 while filming. Vaughn befriended such luminaries as Bobby Kennedy, met Presidents at parties, & had many adventures with stars such as Jack Nicholson, Elvis Presley, Judy Garl&, Bette Davis, Charlton Heston, Oliver Reed, Steve Mc Queen & Elizabeth Taylor. Most recently, Vaughn has been working on his TV series, Hustle, airing in January 2009. This is his revealing & captivating story Robert Vaughn is an Emmy-winning actor who has portrayed five US Presidents & currently stars in Hustle on BBC 1. He has appeared in many films, including The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt & The Towering Inferno, & several classic TV series, including The Protectors & The Man From UNCLE. ...

A witness to the murder of his acrobat parents at the hands of gangsters, circus orphan Dick Grayson was taken in by Bruce Wayne, becoming the teen hero Robin! His parents' killer has been stopped... but that's only the beginning. Can Batman stop his friend before he makes the ultimate mistake? ...