This book is wordy and boring. Bourne does far too much soul searching. He is wimpy, but then he'll have a jolt of power similar to neo's from The Matrix. Unfortunately the action in this book is scarce and sometimes poorly described. Lustbader uses words like "the man" or "the woman" too much leaving room for confusion. its called the BOURNE deception though he plays a much lesser role than his mercenary girl friend due to an injury that happened early in the book. It is the most boring Bourne book made and I wont be recommending it any time soon. The story takes too long to come together and is accented by sloppy dialog which is hard to follow. and because the foreign names sound far to familiar the story is hard to follow as well. I find this book to be a disgrace of the coolest spy science bond.