THE BOURNE IMPERATIVE
ERIC VAN LUSTBADER
Table of Contents
Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Book 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Book 2
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Book 3
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Epilogue
About the Authors
Other Works
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lustbader, Eric.
Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne imperative / Eric Van Lustbader. — 1st ed. p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-446-56447-2 (regular edition) — ISBN 978-1-4555-1350-5 (large print edition)
1. Bourne, Jason (Fictitious character)—Fiction. I.
Ludlum, Robert, 1927–2011. II. Title. III. Title: Bourne imperative.PS3562. U752B66 2012
813'. 54—dc23
2012001145
Acknowledgments
Thanks are due to my cousin, David Schiffer, for keeping me up to date on the latest methods of finding terrorists, international arms dealers, and drug dealers; to my friend, Ken Dorph, for his unique perspective on the Middle East and for his insightful stories of foreign lands; and to my wife, Victoria, for her editorial suggestions and proofing skills.
Special mention must be made of Carlos Fuentes. His marvelous novel,
Prologue
Sadelöga, Sweden
SHE CAME OUT of the mist, and he was running, just as he had been for hours, days.