Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Escape

Jason Bourne, Book 7

De: Brian Freeman

Narrado por: Scott Brick

The death of a lover plunges Bourne into a maelstrom of violence and deceit in this latest installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Jason Bourne is on a boat in the Mediterranean moonlight with his lover, Johanna. He’s happy for the first time in years. Then in the next instant, he finds himself floating on wreckage as fire and smoke choke the sky. Johanna is gone. And Bourne finds the darkness of lost memory closing around his mind again.

As he did once before, Bourne must piece together the fragments of who he is, even as assassins hunt him across Europe. He teams up with his spy chief, Shadow, who reveals the shocking secret that Bourne’s surrogate father–David Abbott, the founder of Treadstone–is alive and missing. Together they must find Abbott before his enemies do.

But Shadow is a master of manipulation who won’t hesitate to betray Bourne to get what she wants. With his memory returning in bits and pieces, Jason discovers that the explosion that stole away his identity is part of a deadly game being played among powerful adversaries from Moscow to Washington. It’s a game with no winners–because even if he finds David Abbott, Bourne may still find himself with no way out and everything to lose.

©2025 Brian Freeman (P)2025 Penguin Audio

great book

Enjoyed this book. One of my favorite of the series. Looking forward to the next book.

Rehash of Previous Books

Although there was plenty of action, this was basically a book rehashing the action from previous books. Many of the same scenes were repeated throughout the story multiple times. Plus Jason losing his memory again was exasperating. I was wavering between 3.5 and 4 stars at the start, but I dropped to 3 stars because of the meeting with Putin. Putin's reasoning and plan for Jason didn't make sense especially when he had spent so much time and effort trying to find him. Also it's getting tiresome continually having everyone killed that gets close to Jason.

Great story

one of the best audio stories a must read. I know you will enjoy as I did.

Happy Ending?

I was hesitant when I realized where Brian was taking this one but it really worked! The best Bourne novels since The Bourne Identity.

Love Scott Brick narrating, as per usual, but the story....

There are no new ideas. This is just a remake of the first book, just read that one instead.

Not Your Fathers Bourne

Scott Brick is great but the story is a complete re-write of the Bourne canon. If you’re looking for a continuation of the saga with Leonid or have a soft spot for Jason’s past don’t bother with this one; you’re better off skipping it. About the only thing in common with past Bourne novels is David Webb’s loss of memory which has happened again!! Tiresome. No reference to Alex, Maria, his Viennese family, etc. replaced with a new backstory using Ludlum’s hard work in name recognition to propel a new series that doesn’t have the crafty storytelling and grittyness of the original and instead throwing in a few graphic sex scenes to replace quality content to try to hold the readers interest.

Bourne is dead to me.

What a slog getting through this book.
Scott Brick is awesome.
Bourne is dead to me.

Too much cussing

All the blasphemy takes the fun out of listening to this otherwise interesting new book.

Naivety

Please just stop the Bourne series. This is ridiculous and just painful to keep skipping chapters