He turns sides and shoots the nurse with his Luger P08 and saves Brendan P. However, his plans are foiled when the "war hero" finds out that when he is done with the murder, he is to be assassinated as well. The Jackal thinks that Prefontaine was going to foil his murder plan, and bribes a nurse on the island to kill him. At the same time, a former judge, Brendan P. Jacques and her two children, and spray paint "Jason Bourne, brother of the Jackal" on the wall.
A "War Hero" arrives, who is actually an "Old Man of Paris," is supposed to assassinate Marie St. Jacques Family faces a number of complications. Jacques, in the Caribbean for protection while Webb himself works with old friend and CIA agent Alexander Conklin, and to a limited degree, the CIA, to hunt down and kill the Jackal first. Webb sends his wife and children to live with her brother, John St. Carlos the Jackal uses a diverse collective of aged men devoted to his handiwork known as "The Old Men of Paris." The old men, who are mostly criminals, work for the Jackal in return for their family's comfort. As the Jackal enters old age and his infamy fades, he decides that he will do two things before he dies: kill Webb/Bourne, and destroy the KGB facility of Novgorod, where the Jackal was trained and was turned away for being a maniac. (Mar.The novel follows David Webb, alias Jason Bourne, as he works to find his old enemy, Carlos the Jackal, who is trying to kill him. This is formula writing that delivers even less than its meager promise. The Ludlum trademarks are present: improbable bloodbaths, repetitive action, stilted and off-the-point conversations and-most annoying-the use of italicized words or entire paragraphs to simulate passion. to Montserrat to Paris before concluding in Moscow, Bourne and his allies prove incredibly inept, barely escaping the Jackal's traps and failing in their repeated attempts to ambush him. In their renewed struggle, the two master assassins uncover the revived existence of Medusa, the sinister alliance that originally led to the establishment of the Bourne identity. When the international terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal penetrates his civilian identity, Webb must again assume the Bourne persona to protect his wife and small children. The literary faults and stylistic excesses that characterized The Icarus Agenda, The Gemini Contenders and other of Ludlum's works are present in his latest mammoth thriller, but fans will nonetheless cheer the return of his most popular character, David Webb, aka Jason Bourne, the assassin who never was.
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