Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Retribution

By: Eric Van Lustbader

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Jason Bourne has been pursued by powerful governments—and escaped, hunted by the most skilled assassins in the world—and outsmarted them, and targeted by terrorists—and defeated them. Now, Bourne wants only one thing: retribution.

Bourne's friend Eli Yadin, head of Mossad, learns that Ouyang Jidan, a senior member of China's Politburo, and a major Mexican drug lord may have been trafficking in something far more deadly than drugs. Yadin needs Bourne to investigate.

Bourne agrees, but only because he has a personal agenda: Ouyang Jidan is the man who ordered Rebeka—one of the only people Bourne has ever truly cared about—murdered. Bourne is determined to avenge her death, but in the process he becomes enmeshed in a monstrous world-wide scheme involving the Chinese, Mexicans, and Russians.

Bourne's increasingly desperate search for Ouyang takes him from Tel Aviv to Shanghai, Mexico City, and, ultimately, a village on China's coast where a clever trap has been laid for him.

Bourne finds himself pursued on all sides and unsure whom he can trust. As he moves closer to Ouyang, closer to avenging the woman he loved, he also moves ever closer to his own death . . .

Great book in the series

This had a great storyline and was very well read. Nicely done all the way around!

Just a fan from the first book

It’s just an overall great series. But you need to start from the beginning. That will help things make since in my opinion.

Finally Bourne with a good storyline.

Except for a bit of confusion with Chinese names this is a much better novel than the last two. I waited to read this one pursuant to the last two disappointments . I'm looking forward to the next Bourne installment. This plot was typically Lustbader. He simplifies the plot, twists turns chases and hand to hand combat we expect. Mixing Israel, China, Mexico and Russia was quite the refreshing quartet to balance. Without giving the plot away this is the best Bourne since "Legacy". I'm cautiously excited the next book coming out on June 10th.

The narrator hit all the accents but crashed and burned on Bourne. He made him sound plain and uninteresting. He has to work to make Bourne tougher!

I can only hope the story continues!

Would you consider the audio edition of Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Retribution to be better than the print version?

I typically only listen to audio books so I did not read the print version.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

The worst part of this book is that I can't listen to it straight through. I get 45 minutes to maybe an hour long on the ride to work, and periodically during some down time.

Any additional comments?

This book was so easy to picture as another blockbuster movie. So many spy novels try to live up to this series, and only Daniel Silva and maybe Vince Flynn can contend with.

Unlistenable for these old ears

I did persevere - while not my favorite Von Lustbader story, the story is OK. However, the narrator's attempts to portray gender and accent, in addition to being distractingly cartoonish, had me chasing volume up and down as I attempted to mitigate the diminishing volume and sound quality as the narrator attempted his unnecessary portrayal of gender and ethnicity.

Yes, I was using my best hearing aid and all of the sound conditioning my Galaxy could muster - unnecessarily unlistenable.