• Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Imperative

  • By: Eric Van Lustbader
  • Narrated by: Holter Graham
  • Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (412 ratings)

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Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Imperative

By: Eric Van Lustbader
Narrated by: Holter Graham
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The internationally known Jason Bourne can't help by feel connected to this case as he finds a man also with amnesia and the truth behind his identity could just save Bourne's life. The man Jason Bourne fishes out of the freezing sea is near death, half-drowned, and bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound. He awakens with no memory of who he is or why he was shot-and Bourne is eerily reminded of his own amnesia. Then Bourne discovers that the Mossad agent named Rebeka is so determined to find this injured man that she has gone off the grid, cut her ties to her agency, and is now being stalked by Mossad's most feared killer. Do the answers to these mysteries lie back in southeast Lebanon, in a secret encampment to which Bourne and Rebeka escaped following a firefight weeks ago?

The complex trail links to the mission given to Treadstone directors Peter Marks and Soraya Moore: Find the semi-mythic terrorist assassin known as Nicodemo. In the course of Bourne's desperate, deadly search for a secret that will alter the future of the entire world, he will experience both triumph and loss, and his life will never be the same. Now everything turns on the amnesiac. Bourne must learn his identity and purpose before both he and Rebeka are killed. From Stockholm to Washington, DC, from Mexico City to Beijing, the web of lies and betrayals extends into a worldwide conspiracy of monumental proportions.

©2012 Eric Van Lustbader (P)2012 Hachette

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Worst Bourne ever

What disappointed you about Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Imperative?

I'm not sure where to begin - the reader, the story line, the writing - they have slowly been getting worse but this book is an absolute disaster. Bourne is a minor character at best - and his skills are not longer a factor - he's just a vanilla character

What was most disappointing about Eric Van Lustbader’s story?

The story isn't remotely believable - the bad guy is a comple joke

What didn’t you like about Holter Graham’s performance?

He's not an engaging reader - I've listened to him before and he was OK - I think part of my opinion of Holter is tied to the terrible story he was forced to read

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Not really - I love Bourne and even like Lustbader - but this book is just terrible

Any additional comments?

Dont waste your time - but if you're like me, you'll read it anyway because you love Bourne

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Leave this "fish" in the water...

What disappointed you about Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Imperative?

It's ridiculously and uncharacteristically (for inclusion in the Bourne series) melodramatic (absolutely intolerable at some points), implausible, and silly.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Until there is some compelling reason to believe that Van Lustbader has improved, not any of his books.

How could the performance have been better?

The narrator carries the voice of the women in the story in a single tone of voice: They sound like victims, even if they are ostensibly strong characters.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Frustration. I enjoy Ludlum, and have even enjoyed some of Lustbader. My sense is that publishers thought they could make a quick buck off the Ludlum franchise, intelligence and plausibility be damned. They succeeded.

Bourne is typically not about affairs of the heart nor the body, though they do occur in the novels. It is about the mystery and the thrill: hence the term thriller. This bok has almost none of that and most certainly, the Soraya and Peter relationships are like watching Desperate Housewives.

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Dreadful - save your credits.

What was most disappointing about Eric Van Lustbader’s story?

This book is so terrible, Robert Ludlum should be turning over in his grave. The story doesn't hang together at all and reads like a story that was hastily put together. It's not even close to the early Bourne books.

The narration is on par with the quality of the writing. Narrators Dick Hill or Scott Sowers would have been a better choice.

I couldn't force myself to finish it. I gave up after the first half of the book and switched over to a Lucas Davenport novel. If you can't resist the temptation, at least get it from library so you don't waste your money on it.

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TEDIOUS

This yarn was a slow start. I listened long enough to get into the plot although it was not easy. If I hadn't been driving I would have shut it down. The narrator was good enough, the plot was good enough, but Jason Bourne did not seem to be the main character with far too much attention to details unrelated to his character.

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So dumb

This book was truly dumb no plot and names so were confusing I had no idea what was even going on .., and I just don’t know why I wasted my time

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Bad ending lost with plot

worst one so far I'm the Bourne bourne novels, disaspointing, refund if audible gave them

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good story

Story, characters great
F bombs not necessary. Jason Bourne stories are so hard to put down but I don't see the necessity for the foul language. They weren't like that in the beginning of the series.

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Thriller

I enjoyed the suspense and drama as Born survived the numerous plots to kill him.

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Loved It

As with all Bourne books this one was one I could not ignore. True to form the suspense was ever present.
Holter Graham's narrative was second to none.
He can apply any and all accents and the right falsetto required to bring the characters to life!

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boring listen

there are to many characters, and very hard to follow the storyline. to many of main characters died

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