![]() 650,000 first printing $150,000 ad/promo BOMC selection Franklin Library limited edition. Every chapter ends with a cliff-hanger the story brims with assassination, torture, hand-to-hand combat, sudden surprise and intrigue within intrigue. The action jolts from the back alleys of Hong Kong and Kowloon to a secret government complex in the Colorado mountains to the seats of power in Peking and even the interior of Mao's tomb. Only one man can destroy the conspiracy: Webb, who must be persuaded to re-assume his Bourne identity, track down the impostor and through him lay a trap for the vile Shengthe ``persuasion'' to be by way of his abducted wife. agent now, under his real name David Webb, struggling with the aid of a psychiatrist and his loving wife Marie to recover from amnesia. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identitya ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating. ![]() This time the stakes are higher than ever. ![]() ![]() His principal agent is an assassin-for-hire masquerading as the legendary "Jason Bourne,'' a one-time secret U.S. Reenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. A Peking leader of seemingly irreproachable reputation, secretly a Kuomintang fanatic, has masterminded a plot to take over Hong Kong via political assassination, the result of which would be civil war in China and possibly global disaster. Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this.
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