Title: Missed it...
Product review: I am sorry, but Mr. Van Lustbader missed the mark trying to pick up the gauntlet of telling a tale involving Jason Bourne. The book is disjointed, coming back to characters in later chapters that you have almost completely forgotten about, mainly because they were not richly layered and revealed in any depth in the first place. And Jason Bourne himself, as a world-class spy and assassin we all know and love, comes off as a bumbling inept who seems to dodge certain death only by the even greater ineptitude of the adversaries he encounters. Lustbader's Bourne relies heavily upon people he has only just met, and knows much too little about, and spends almost the entire book being used as a pawn by others. The story has none of the heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat excitement we expect, and so many holes in it as to be almost unreadable. Nice try, but it missed.
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