BOURNE SANCTION, THE - Hachette

Jason Bourne is one of the most compelling and best loved characters created by internationally bestselling novelist Robert Ludlum. The hero of five novels, Bourne has also been featured in three blockbuster movies starring Matt Damon. Now New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader presents a new story about the rogue secret agent who has lost his memory.Jason Bourne returns to Georgetown University and the mild world of his alter ego, David Webb, hoping for normalcy. But after so many adrenaline-soaked years risking his life, Bourne chafes under the quiet role of a linguistic professor. Then his academic mentor asks for help investigating the murder of a former student by an unknown sect of Muslim extremists - terrosrists who have an inmediate plan to attack the United States. The organization, the Black Legion, and its lethal plot have also popped up on the radar of Central Intelligence, where new director Veronica Hart is struggling to assert her authority. Sensing an opportunity to take control of CI by showing Hart's inompetence, National Security Agency operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could - hunt down and kill Bourne.In Europe, Bourne's investigation turns into one of the deadliest, 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 - all while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute...