The Bourne Sanction
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The Bourne Sanction is the title for the novel
by Eric Van Lustbader
and the sixth novel in the Jason Bourne series
created by Robert Ludlum
. It was released on July 29, 2008. It is Lustbader's third Bourne novel, following The Bourne Betrayal that was published in 2007.
, Russia are waiting for Borya Maks. The prisoners attack Borya Maks and try to kill him. As they try to kill him Leonid Arkadin (member of Kazanskaya), defends him, killing the prisoners that are attacking him. Arkadin, leads Maks into a corridor to kill himself. Arkadin is an assassin that was sent to kill Borya Maks by Pyotr Zilber. As Arkadin returns to Campione d'Italia, Switzerland, Zilber pays him for a job well done (unaware that Arkadin is soon going to go after him). Zilber then talks about another person he would like to take out, Semion Icoupov. Zilber is unaware that is who Arkadin works for and is then trapped in a T-Bone by Arkadin into the side of his BMW. Pyotr Zilber wakes up laying on a bed in a room with Semion Icoupov and Leonid Arkadin. The two men torment information out of him, ending up in him committing suicide(via cyanide fingernail). Arkadin's next mission is to Sevastopol
, to get possession of an important document that is vitally important to the successful accomplishment of a terrorist act on United States soil.
. Meanwhile, Veronica Hart, a woman determined to get the DCI job, is on her way to the Oval Office to meet with the President of the United States, Luther LaValle (pentagon intelligence czar), and General Richard P. Kendall.
Bourne and Moira go to a restaurant. While there, Bourne notices something strange. He senses someone watching him. He has Moira call him on the phone, leaves the restaurant and waits for his enemy to appear. When no one appears, Bourne goes back into the restaurant to join Moira. Behind him is a man reading a paper, glancing at Moira every once in a while and Bourne realizes that she is the one that is being followed.
Luther LaValle, Rob Batt, and General Kendall are designing a plan to get Veronica Hart sacked. They want Hart out as soon as possible. When Bourne and Specter return to a high ceilinged library, Specter tells Bourne of Pyotr Zilber and his death. He was a former student at Georgetown University. He tells Bourne that he is a terrorist hunter and would like Jason to go after Semion Icoupov.
In Europe, Bourne's investigation into the Black Legion
turns into one of the deadliest and most tangled operations of his double life: the pursuit of the leader of a murderous terrorist group with roots in the darkest days of World War II. During all of this Arkadin, who is just as brilliant and damaged as Bourne, is getting closer by the minute in achieving his mission. While Bourne thinks he is getting closer to Arkadin, Arkadin thinks he's getting closer to Bourne.
Bourne goes to Moscow following information provided by Professor Specter. He is followed by many people sent in pursuit of him because of intercepted information. Bourne checks in to the Metrtopolya Hotel with a girl named Gala. His arrival is expected by many people. The taxi driver, Yakov, is paid by a man named Harris Low to drop him off at the hotel. Yakov is a poor man with an unpleasant past. He does what he does for money, driving around people for eighteen hours a day in a cab. Occasionally he doesn't get paid for what he does. Meanwhile in the hotel, Bourne wrestles and garotte's an impersonated waiter (agent Anthony Prowess) to the ground after dodging a knife. As he exits the room he finds a blood trail that leads to the closet where Prowess had executed a man also sent to trail Bourne.
Meanwhile, Soraya and Tyrone are meeting with Luther LaValle and General Kendall. Tyrone and Soraya are to meet with them because LaValle and Kendall believe they are getting intel on the Black Legion. When Tyrone asks for the bathroom he descends the staircase to finish what he, Soraya, and a woman named Kiki are there for. Tyrone gets caught and brought into a cell. LaValle and Kendall leave Tyrone's life up to Soraya. She must trade Hart for Tyrone. But what LaValle did not know was that Hart was gathering intel that Rob Patt has been gathering ever since he was fired for being a mole.
In Moscow, Bourne meets with Dimitri Maslow, who vaguely tells him about Arkadin's life. After the meeting Bourne calls Specter. Specter reveals that Pyotr Zilber was his son and a member of the Black Legion. Bourne knows what Arkadin is capable of doing and is going to go after Specter's last man, Kirsch. Later on when Bourne is in a museum in Munich he leaves Kirsch behind a statue. When he returns he finds his corpse with a bullet through his head. He meets Jens, one of the men Specter sent to give his apartment to Bourne. The pair leaves the building and Semion Icoupov shoots Jens point blank with a total of three shots outside the museum with a luger p08 in a drive by.
Escaping the mayhem in the State Museum in Sheremetyevo, Bourne and Petra, a security guard paid to shoot Kirsch, visit Herr Pelz, an older man that Petra knew when she was a child. He helped her in Dachau
, where she grew up. Herr "Old" Pelz tells Bourne more information about the Black Legion. Bourne shows Pelz a picture and asks him if he can identify the people in it. Pointing to the picture of Professor Specter he says "Damn, I'd swear this one is Asher Sever." He told Bourne that Sever's dad, Ibrahim, killed Semion Icoupov's father. For that Icupouv executed Ibrahim. The brothers hated each other and wanted the other one killed. After being dropped of at Kirsch's apartment by Petra, Bourne finds a tiny transmitter planted on his passport. The door bells rings and it is Semion Icoupov. A couple of minutes later Arkadin blasts through the window with Devra coming in the back way with an SIG. Icoupov shoots Devra in the chest and walks over to her, not realizing she still has her luger. She shoots him in the shoulder and he runs out of the house escaping to a rooftop. Arkadin then catches up with Server and Icoupov in their Mercedes and executes them in cold blood with a Sig Sauer Mosquito.
Bourne jumps out a helicopter onto the Moon of Hormuz (the tanker), following Arkadin. Boure and Arkadin team up (or at least Bourne thinks so) to find Sever's man on board with the Black Legion symbol. Once Moira kills the doctor---Sever's man---Bourne comes down in the lower room because the captain told him that she was down there. As he comes up Arkadin lunges at him with a knife aiming at Bourne's stomach. After a long fight, Arkadain goes overboard with a twelve story drop, plunging into water.
Back at the hospital where Asher Sever (who we find out is Dominic Specter) is on life support, Bourne meets Willard, the chef at the NSA Safe House. There Willard tells him that Arkadin was a member of Treadstone. Conklin knew Icoupov and they agreed it would be good to train Arkadin because he had the drive and nothing to lose.
Novel
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by Eric Van Lustbader
Eric Van Lustbader
Eric Van Lustbader is a writer of thriller and fantasy novels.He is a graduate of New York's Stuyvesant High School and Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology, and is a second-level Reiki master.-The Pearl Saga:...
and the sixth novel in the Jason Bourne series
Book series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher....
created by Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum
Robert Ludlum was an American author of 23 thriller novels. The number of his books in print is estimated between 290–500 million copies. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.-Life and...
. It was released on July 29, 2008. It is Lustbader's third Bourne novel, following The Bourne Betrayal that was published in 2007.
Plot introduction
In the prologue, four prisoners at High Security Prison Colony 13, in Nizhny TagilNizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, situated east of the virtual border between Europe and Asia. Population: -History:...
, Russia are waiting for Borya Maks. The prisoners attack Borya Maks and try to kill him. As they try to kill him Leonid Arkadin (member of Kazanskaya), defends him, killing the prisoners that are attacking him. Arkadin, leads Maks into a corridor to kill himself. Arkadin is an assassin that was sent to kill Borya Maks by Pyotr Zilber. As Arkadin returns to Campione d'Italia, Switzerland, Zilber pays him for a job well done (unaware that Arkadin is soon going to go after him). Zilber then talks about another person he would like to take out, Semion Icoupov. Zilber is unaware that is who Arkadin works for and is then trapped in a T-Bone by Arkadin into the side of his BMW. Pyotr Zilber wakes up laying on a bed in a room with Semion Icoupov and Leonid Arkadin. The two men torment information out of him, ending up in him committing suicide(via cyanide fingernail). Arkadin's next mission is to Sevastopol
Sevastopol
Sevastopol is a city on rights of administrative division of Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 . Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine, after the Port of Odessa....
, to get possession of an important document that is vitally important to the successful accomplishment of a terrorist act on United States soil.
Plot summary
At the beginning of the book, Bourne is at Georgetown University talking with Moira Trevor. Moira Trevor wants Bourne to be the head of security at their new liquid natural gas terminal in Long Beach, CaliforniaLong Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...
. Meanwhile, Veronica Hart, a woman determined to get the DCI job, is on her way to the Oval Office to meet with the President of the United States, Luther LaValle (pentagon intelligence czar), and General Richard P. Kendall.
Bourne and Moira go to a restaurant. While there, Bourne notices something strange. He senses someone watching him. He has Moira call him on the phone, leaves the restaurant and waits for his enemy to appear. When no one appears, Bourne goes back into the restaurant to join Moira. Behind him is a man reading a paper, glancing at Moira every once in a while and Bourne realizes that she is the one that is being followed.
Luther LaValle, Rob Batt, and General Kendall are designing a plan to get Veronica Hart sacked. They want Hart out as soon as possible. When Bourne and Specter return to a high ceilinged library, Specter tells Bourne of Pyotr Zilber and his death. He was a former student at Georgetown University. He tells Bourne that he is a terrorist hunter and would like Jason to go after Semion Icoupov.
In Europe, Bourne's investigation into the Black Legion
Black Legion
Black Legion may refer to:*Black Army of Hungary, an army of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 15th century*Légion Noire, an army of French criminals raised for the last invasion of Britain in 1797...
turns into one of the deadliest and most tangled operations of his double life: the pursuit of the leader of a murderous terrorist group with roots in the darkest days of World War II. During all of this Arkadin, who is just as brilliant and damaged as Bourne, is getting closer by the minute in achieving his mission. While Bourne thinks he is getting closer to Arkadin, Arkadin thinks he's getting closer to Bourne.
Bourne goes to Moscow following information provided by Professor Specter. He is followed by many people sent in pursuit of him because of intercepted information. Bourne checks in to the Metrtopolya Hotel with a girl named Gala. His arrival is expected by many people. The taxi driver, Yakov, is paid by a man named Harris Low to drop him off at the hotel. Yakov is a poor man with an unpleasant past. He does what he does for money, driving around people for eighteen hours a day in a cab. Occasionally he doesn't get paid for what he does. Meanwhile in the hotel, Bourne wrestles and garotte's an impersonated waiter (agent Anthony Prowess) to the ground after dodging a knife. As he exits the room he finds a blood trail that leads to the closet where Prowess had executed a man also sent to trail Bourne.
Meanwhile, Soraya and Tyrone are meeting with Luther LaValle and General Kendall. Tyrone and Soraya are to meet with them because LaValle and Kendall believe they are getting intel on the Black Legion. When Tyrone asks for the bathroom he descends the staircase to finish what he, Soraya, and a woman named Kiki are there for. Tyrone gets caught and brought into a cell. LaValle and Kendall leave Tyrone's life up to Soraya. She must trade Hart for Tyrone. But what LaValle did not know was that Hart was gathering intel that Rob Patt has been gathering ever since he was fired for being a mole.
In Moscow, Bourne meets with Dimitri Maslow, who vaguely tells him about Arkadin's life. After the meeting Bourne calls Specter. Specter reveals that Pyotr Zilber was his son and a member of the Black Legion. Bourne knows what Arkadin is capable of doing and is going to go after Specter's last man, Kirsch. Later on when Bourne is in a museum in Munich he leaves Kirsch behind a statue. When he returns he finds his corpse with a bullet through his head. He meets Jens, one of the men Specter sent to give his apartment to Bourne. The pair leaves the building and Semion Icoupov shoots Jens point blank with a total of three shots outside the museum with a luger p08 in a drive by.
Escaping the mayhem in the State Museum in Sheremetyevo, Bourne and Petra, a security guard paid to shoot Kirsch, visit Herr Pelz, an older man that Petra knew when she was a child. He helped her in Dachau
Dachau
Dachau is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 km north-west of Munich. It is now a popular residential area for people working in Munich with roughly 40,000 inhabitants...
, where she grew up. Herr "Old" Pelz tells Bourne more information about the Black Legion. Bourne shows Pelz a picture and asks him if he can identify the people in it. Pointing to the picture of Professor Specter he says "Damn, I'd swear this one is Asher Sever." He told Bourne that Sever's dad, Ibrahim, killed Semion Icoupov's father. For that Icupouv executed Ibrahim. The brothers hated each other and wanted the other one killed. After being dropped of at Kirsch's apartment by Petra, Bourne finds a tiny transmitter planted on his passport. The door bells rings and it is Semion Icoupov. A couple of minutes later Arkadin blasts through the window with Devra coming in the back way with an SIG. Icoupov shoots Devra in the chest and walks over to her, not realizing she still has her luger. She shoots him in the shoulder and he runs out of the house escaping to a rooftop. Arkadin then catches up with Server and Icoupov in their Mercedes and executes them in cold blood with a Sig Sauer Mosquito.
Bourne jumps out a helicopter onto the Moon of Hormuz (the tanker), following Arkadin. Boure and Arkadin team up (or at least Bourne thinks so) to find Sever's man on board with the Black Legion symbol. Once Moira kills the doctor---Sever's man---Bourne comes down in the lower room because the captain told him that she was down there. As he comes up Arkadin lunges at him with a knife aiming at Bourne's stomach. After a long fight, Arkadain goes overboard with a twelve story drop, plunging into water.
Back at the hospital where Asher Sever (who we find out is Dominic Specter) is on life support, Bourne meets Willard, the chef at the NSA Safe House. There Willard tells him that Arkadin was a member of Treadstone. Conklin knew Icoupov and they agreed it would be good to train Arkadin because he had the drive and nothing to lose.