New York Times bestselling author, Eric Van Lustbader, returns with
another Jason Bourne thriller as he spars off against another deadly
agent--and he might be the perfect match for Bourne.
Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of
an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of
Bourne's impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on
Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring-an artifact of
such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now
he's determined to find the ring's owner and purpose. But Bourne never
knows what terrible acts he'll discover he committed when he digs into
the past.
The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a vicious
Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin, who was also a graduate of the
Central Intelligence training program Treadstone. A covert course
designed to create ruthless assassins for C.I., it was shuttered by
Congress for corruption. Yet before it was dismantled, it produced
Bourne and Arkadin, giving them equal skills, equal force, and equal
cunning.
As Bourne's destiny circles closer to Arkadin's, it becomes clear that
the eventual collision of these men is not of their own making. Someone
else has been watching and manipulating them. Someone who wants to know,
Who is the more deadly agent?