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The showdown between Bourne and Miss Shirley is one for the ages.įreeman’s first Jason Bourne thriller is a treat for fans of the late Robert Ludlum. She warns people, “at all times when we are together to call me Miss Shirley.” That’s in every sentence, with violations punishable by a bullet in the throat, even if she’s just treated a guy to the best sex ever. That is plausible, scary stuff, but for a real scare meet the superb villain Miss Shirley. They don’t realize that it’s controlling what they’re going to do. People think it’s cool because it predicts what they’re going to do before they know it themselves.
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The main threat to society is a software application called Prescix. What follows is plenty of well-plotted action of the bloodletting variety. Later, Bourne agrees to find a connection between that killing and a mysterious organization called Medusa. Impossible to kill.” So Bourne agrees to meet secretly with a journalist in Quebec City who has written about the Vegas killings and is investigating the congresswoman’s murder. Good luck with that, because “Bourne was a ghost. Treadstone, his former organization, believes he’s out of control and wants him dead.
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Fans know that as Cain, he was a professional assassin before a gunshot wound stole all memory of his past. The suspect is an “ex-government operative gone rogue” code-named Cain. The congresswoman had been about to expose a large-scale data hacking scandal in big tech. More than a year later, a New York congresswoman is murdered, shot in the neck. Without apparent motive, a man with no known criminal history or mental illness opens fire on a Las Vegas crowd and slaughters 66 people. The story is filled with people who, on an international scale, follow and are being followed, and those who are not what they seem.Novelist Freeman nails the Ludlum style in the latest Jason Bourne adventure. Deverowe has done an excellent job keeping up the pace throughout the book with twists and turns every step of the way. There are levels within levels on both sides. Chapter lengths range from a few paragraphs to a few pages, each one filled with the suspense of never being completely sure which side the characters are on. Instead, short episodes are told through the eyes of the person involved. The story is not told through just one character's point of view. Even when the two agree to marry, one wonders if it is more of a business arrangement than anything else. The granddaughter, Leah Lockwood, combines business with pleasure and leaves the reader to question if she really loves her latest boyfriend or is she involved with him just because she needs his help in running the company. In addition to themes of politics and power, sexual intrigue also plays a major role. When the grandfather, who is head of the company, dies under mysterious circumstances, his adult granddaughter searches for clues to find the killer. The political and power-driven intrigue for control of Lockwood Petroleum involves an international cast of characters as well as three generations of the Lockwood family.
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Put together the fast-paced Jason Bourne series by Robert Ludlum with the legal thrillers of John Grisham and you have The Odessa Concessions. "I sometimes wonder if people like me didn't have a good deal to do with making the world the way it is now."
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