ROBERT LUDLUM'S THE BOURNE INITIATIVE

Lustbader makes an impressive effort to copy the style of the late Robert Ludlum who died in 2001, and despite killing off two characters who reappear has made a jolly good effort at reprieving Jason Bourne. He is on the run. The NSA believes Bourne controls the cyber weapon devised by his old friend General Boris Karpov, capable of penetrating the heart of America's final defence - nuclear launch codes. Flushed from cover, hunted by assassins, and nearly killed, Bourne has to join forces with his bitterest enemy Keyre, the Somali terrorist whose organisation Bourne once decimated. From the Greek island of Skyros to Somalia and the underbelly of Moscow, Bourne must unravel the mystery of Karpov's last legacy, a weaponized code that may very well bring about the unthinkable - a violent end to America. 440pp in paperback.