In the colourful world of fifteenth-century Italy, Luciana Vetra is young & beautiful, a part-time model & full-time whore. When she is asked to pose as the goddess Flora for Sandro Botticelli's painting La Primavera, she is willing to oblige
- until the artist abruptly sends her away without payment. Affronted, she steals an unfinished version of the painting
- only to find that somebody is ready to kill her to get it back. As friends, & associates are murdered around her, Luciana turns to the one man who has never tried to exploit her beauty, Brother Guido della Torre, a novice at the monastery of Santa Croce. Fleeing Florence together, Luciana & Guido race through the nine great cities of Renaissance Italy, desperately trying o decode the painting's secrets before their enemies stop them. Gloriously fresh & vivid, with a deliciously irreverent heroine, The Botticelli Secret is a masterful blend of historical intrigue & romantic adventure.

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Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking nuclear material. Bourne agrees to help track the money trail of the terrorists, but soon suffers from confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places & events. Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail? Worse still, is the man he saved really Martin Lindros? Now Bourne is on his own
- gathering evidence, while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who are determined to destroy the USA.
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The BOURNE DECEPTION picks up where THE BOURNE SANCTION left off. 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. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, & what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Read by Jeremy Davidson ...

Bourne's enemies are gathering force. Severus Domna, a secret & ancient cabal, has called forth its members from around the globe, with one objective: to vanquish the last person capable of destroying their bid to de-stabilize the world economy
- Jason Bourne. But how can they possibly succeed where so many others have failed? By turning Bourne's most trusted friend into his greatest
- & most deadly
- enemy. Now Bourne finds himself in a world where friend & foe go h&-in-h&. Bourne's journey will lead him down a path of brutal murder & destruction
- one from which there is no escape.



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Badly wounded & suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled out of the Mediterranean by fishermen, & is able to recall neither who he is nor what happened to him. His only clue to his identity is the number of a Swiss bank account whic ...

Badly wounded & suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled out of the Mediterranean by fishermen, & is able to recall neither who he is nor what happened to him. His only clue to his identity is the number of a Swiss bank account whic ...

Jason Bourne pulls a drowning man from a lake
- a man not only freezing, but bleeding profusely from a gun-shot wound. He wakes
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Readers were first introduced to Jason Bourne's nemesis Leonid Arkadin, a brilliant Russian assassin & fearless international mercenary, in THE BOURNE SANCTION. His girlfriend was killed during a fight for which an enraged Arkadin blames Bourne. In THE BOURNE DECEPTION, Arkadin hunted Bourne to take revenge & kill him. Bourne, in a fight for his life, learned that Arkadin's skills mirror Jason's because he received the same original CIA Treadstone training. Now, in THE BOURNE OBJECTIVE, Jason turns the tables & targets Arkadin. Hunter will become hunted. But revenge can cause great psychological devastation. Has this become too personal for Bourne? Will this hunt be Bourne's downfall? ...

Readers were first introduced to Jason Bourne's nemesis Leonid Arkadin, a brilliant Russian assassin & fearless international mercenary, in THE BOURNE SANCTION. His girlfriend was killed during a fight for which an enraged Arkadin blames Bourne. In The BOURNE DECEPTION, Arkadin hunted Bourne to take revenge & kill him. Bourne, in a fight for his life, learned that Arkadin's skills mirror Jason's because he received the same original CIA Treadstone training. Now, in THE BOURNE OBJECTIVE, Jason will turn the tables & target Arkadin. Hunter will become hunted. But revenge can cause great psychological devastation. Has this become too personal for Bourne? Will this hunt be Bourne's downfall? ...

University professor David Webb
- forever caught between two identities
- is still haunted by the splintered nightmares his

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