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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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 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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THE BOURNE LEGACY: After the events of THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 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 planning to take him out of the game forever. A deadly assassin is on his trail & his former handler has been brutally murdered. It seems that David Webb must once again turn to Jason Bourne to save his life & his family...THE BOURNE BETRAYAL: Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA Martin Lindros who disappeared in Africa while tracking nuclear shipments. Once safely back in America Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terrorists buying the nuclear material. But is the man he saved really Martin Lindros? Suddenly Bourne is on his own
- gathering evidence while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who are determined to destroy the USA...THE BOURNE SANCTION: When an unknown terrorist organisation comes up on Central Intelligence radar they have no choice but to employ a rogue agent capable of hunting down a shadowy terrorist mastermind on his own
- Jason Bourne. Suddenly Bourne is plunged into the deadliest & most tangled operation of his double life: pursuing the head of a murderous terror group while an assassin as brilliant & damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute...

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