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

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Jon Smith is attending a W.H.O. conference in The Hague on infectious diseases & wakes in his hotel room to find a man aiming a gun at him. Smith neutralizes the shooter & finds three pictures in the assassins pocket: one of an unknown woman one of Peter Howell his friend & a former agent with Britains MI6 & one of him. When Smith tries to leave the hotel he encounters a second group of terrorists in the process of attacking it. The hotel is not the only target in The Hague. Within minutes of Smiths narrow escape bombs go off at the train station airport & at the headquarters of the International Court of Justice where a Pakistani warlord Oman Dattar is being held while he is tried for crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos Dattar escapes. Dattar has learned of a new strain of bioelectric bacteria that can grow electrical wires as a form of cilia. These cilia connect with another metallic source & can transmit & transport themselves via electric current. These bacteria are carried to the W.H.O. conference in preparation for an international consortium of biologists convened to study them along with other strains of deadly bacteria. Dattar arranges for his men to steal the bacteria & use them to bring down the West once & for all. Can Jon Smith stop him? ...

In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics the once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by the underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed & the intelligence agents involved have all disappeared without a trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt. Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For unbeknownst to the world at large the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions & forever change the nature of the world. ...

A fiery explosion shatters a laboratory building in Paris. Among the dead is Emile Chambord one of the leaders in the global race to create a molecular
- or DNA
- computer. Unfortunately Professor Chambord kept the details of his work secret & his notes were apparently destroyed in the fire. Then suddenly US fighter jets disappear from radar screens for a full five minutes & theres no explanation; utilities cease to function; & all telecommunications abruptly stop with devastating consequences. This is not the work of a clever hacker
- only the enormous power & speed of a DNA computer could have caused such havoc. Covert-One agent Jon Smith flies to Paris to investigate. Following a trail that leads him across two continents he uncovers a web of deception that threatens to re-shape the world for ever...


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On a desolate island deep within the Arctic a scientific expedition photographs the wreckage of a bomber. It seems to be a relic from the Cold War
- but a handful of insiders know that it is a Soviet Air Force biological warfare platform still armed with weaponised anthrax. Covert-One's Lt. Col. Jon Smith leads a team to secure the site. But on the island they find themselves confronted with a traitor from within their ranks. Gradually they become aware that the ancient bomber conceals something else: a secret so deadly that it could trigger a Third World War...
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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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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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Jason Bourne has gradually come to realise who & what he really is
- a strange amalgam of a man named David Webb & a deadly killer.
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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? ...

With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles & paralyzed by bureaucracy the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group
- Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort when the threat is on a global scale & time is running out. When Christian Dresner of Dresner Industries unveils a device that will revolutionize the world
- the Merge a personal computer that communicates directly with your brain
- army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith is assigned to assess its military potential. In addition to giving you the ability to control all your applications using only your mind the Merge also gives you perfect eyesight infrared vision & incredibly accurate aim with a gun. Meanwhile in the wilds of Afghanistan Randi Russell encounters an entire village of murdered Afghans
- who all have Merge studs in their skulls. As Smith & Russell begin to delve into the circumstances surrounding the Afghans' deaths
- & the bizarre fact that they all have Merges weeks before the official on-sale date
- they're quickly blocked by someone at the highest level of the military. Is the Merge really as innocuous as Dresner claims? & what secrets is the military hiding about its development? Smith & Russell are determined to learn the truth. But they may pay for it with their lives...





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