The Bourne Legacy- Out With The Old, In with The Awesome

The Bourne Legacy- Out With The Old, In with The Awesome

Rating: This book was a hell of a lot of fun

Do you remember all those Ludlum novels that were fantastic. The ones that kept you on the edge of your seat and were written intelligently that you weren’t exactly having a brain drain while reading He wrote the Bourne trilogy (that were adapted into movies) and sadly died in 2001. Then some one, this Eric Van Lustador had the gull to buy the rights to Ludlum’s masterpieces and started writing sequels I was sure I was going to disgrace his but not quite.

The Bourne Legacy is written completely different than the other novels. Unlike Ludlum, this guy had no true experience with the CIA to create anything intelligent in government workings. It’s told completely focusing on Jason who is now a college teacher.
A assassin tries to kill him. He runs and tried to get help from Conklin (his friend from the trilogy) He soon fins him dead. The police arrived. He’s framed for the murder and he’s on the run and the action doesn’t stop.

This is not the Jason Bourne from the previous novels. He supposedly the same character. But Jason was getting old and stuff in the third novel as in this one Bourne is portrayed as though he’s in his early thirties. With no problems what so ever. He also doesn’t have any inner split emotional battles between what Bourne would or what Webb would do. He isn’t as crazy. His friends pretty much die in the second chapter cutting that rope where the author can do as he wants. Also the first Bourne novels were written back in the late sixties, early seventies. In this one it takes place after 2000.. They have the internet, cell phones, and myspace. Very much like how the new bond Daniel Craig reinvented the Bond series. This author did the same with Jason.

The reinvention is a bit unrealistic, but so much happens that you really don’t care. It’s just a fun book. Jason is escaping hotels that are being raided, escaping the police in high speed chases, fighting and shoots outs and he has a long fight with a guy on the top of historic French church. How cool is that.

So is it like the other books? No. It doesn’t insult the original. It barrows elements from the source material. It reinvents it This is the more modern comic book like Jason Bourne, and it’s hell of a lot of fun. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a action book.

Four smoothies out of four

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