Martin Lindros stared intently out of the military copter carrying him upward into the highest elevations of the Semien mountain range. While it was true that he hadn't been in the field since the Old Man had appointed him to the position of deputy director of Central Intelligence four years ago, he'd made sure that he'd never lost his animal edge. He trained three mornings a week at the CI field agent obstacle course outside Quantico, and every Thursday night at ten he washed away the tedium of vetting electronic intel reports and signing action orders by spending ninety minutes at the firing range, reacquainting himself with every manner of firearm, old, current, and new. Manufacturing action of his own served to assuage his frustration at not being more relevant. All that changed, however, when the Old Man approved his operations proposal for Typhon.

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Robert Ludlum has been a household name for nearly four decades. An internationally bestselling novelist, he set the standard by which today's espionage thrillers are measured. One of Ludlum's most compelling and successful character creations is Jason Bourne, a rogue secret agent who has lost his memory. Bourne is the hero of four novels as well as three movies starring Matt Damon: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum. Now from Eric Van Lustbad'er comes a new novel in the Bourne series...

Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A Central Intelligence Agency deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry.

Bourne will not let go of Lindros, his last lifeline to humanity.Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network---one determined to build nuclear armaments--by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn't realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibly dangerous, technologically sawT group with ties to Africa, throughout the Middle East, and into Eastern Europe and Russia. They have predicted Bourne's every move and are counting on his unwitting help in their plans to destroy America.