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(i consider that first sentence, "where did you learn." worse than the second sentence of dialog).here's what got me on page 32: "my anodyne is going back to work full-bore. yours is obviously here, in a new life.""anodyne." "going" rather than "getting." "full-bore." "obviously."don't waste your money on this hack, you will do better wasting your time on tv, which is free. at that point it's over; you can't go more than a page before throwing the book into the trash.open the bourne sanction anywhere and read a sentence of dialog. one begins to read each sentence for the really bad dialog. i should have know better; no real writer would do a cover of another writer except for money and lustbader has never had an ear for dialog.i simply could not read past page 33. lustbader owes me $[.]., which is what i paid for this time waster. the problem with lustbader's books (as well as ludlum and most other bestsellers) is unnatural and self-conscious dialog. here's a random exchange: "where did you learn to answer questions without revealing a thing." the answer: "if i'm bad, i learned it at my mother's breast." the whole book is like this.
this book has none of the gripping moments and fast paced action like the last book or robert ludlums books. i book the book in hard cover for 25.99
After being faithful to the Ludlum tradition in his first book Van Lustbader strayed off course in teh second of his book and seemed totally lost in this third one. Time to call it quits. In the Bourne Sanction he never used the word "Sanction". In the Bourne Legacy the author intro'd Bourne's son but didn't re-sue the character or even mention him the the succeeding two books. The story is overly complicated with too many twists and turns , has little intensity for the ultimate plot line and was very poorly edited. By far this is the worst of the three books written by Eric Van Lustbader. I read the Large Print edition and that had more printing errors in it than any book I've ever read. I almost think the Bourne Betrayal should have been called the Bourne Sanction since there was an actual agency wide sanction on Bourne and in this book there were more betrayal;s then you cna shake a stick at.
So I excitedly picked this up not even realizing that it wasn't written by Ludlum.I guess I'll give the Bourne Identity a shot next time. This went well for about 100 pages. I skipped the drawn out descriptions and side stories just to stay interested in the main story. The slow moving story and seemingly endless setups finally got the best of me and I gave up.I'm a fan of the movies, but have never read a Bourne novel. Picked this up at the airport for something to read on a long overseas flight. Got through the first 200 pages OK, but the story became so drawn out I started getting bored.After several attempts to resume reading, I finally began skimming. Finally, I got about 2/3rds of the way through the book, I just couldn't stand it anymore.
Although I love the Bourne novels, I would not rate this as one of the best. Van Lusbader's storyline is just frenetic. Ludlum's plots were fairly direct with twists at just the right moments; Mr. Althogh Ludlum did not shy away from violence, he did not make it the focus of the story, which Van Lustbader seemed to do. In the past, Eric Van Lustbader has given us some great novels which were full of action and were very well written. However, particularly in this book, I feel that he has overdone what Robert Ludlum started. There are too many subplots, and I found that some of the more violent sections seemed to be there more to sell books than because they were integral to the story.
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