Category Archives: Espionage Thriller

The Bourne Sanction by Robert Ludlum

Posted by admin on February 25, 2010 None comments

The Bourne Sanction is written by Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader.  This is another Action-Thriller book of  Bourne Trilogy. if you have read The Bourne Identity novel or movie and like it you would like this book too. It’s filled with action and shy agency things also little romance along the way.

Globe-trotting secret agent Jason Bourne returns in the third installment under the helm of Lustbader, who struggles to captivate as convincingly and effectively as Ludlum did in the original novels. Amid a cheesy prologue that features corny background music to set the mood, Jeremy Davidson speeds through the opening paragraphs at breakneck speed. Perhaps in an attempt to increase tension from the start, Davidson comes off sounding incredibly forced and somewhat uncomfortable. As the story progresses, he slows down but lacks any real authenticity. His characters are flat and uninspired, his performance monotonous and bland.

Ok The Bourne Sanction is not best as  The Bourne Identity or The Bourne Supremacy. But still it gives you what you except from A  action thriller novel. Like all other Robert Ludlum books quality is there. There are lot of law ratings form Amazon customers for this because they had expected the same level like The Bourne Identity. But one has to understand not every book can be best even from same author.

The Sands of Sakkara by Glenn Meade

Posted by admin on February 17, 2010 None comments

Sands of Sakkara by Glenn Meade is a good war time espionage thriller. It’s not the best of espionage thriller novels but also its not the worst. I liked the plot and story.

Glenn Meade’s latest historical thriller begins in 1939, at the archaeological site of Sakkara near Cairo. Best friends Jack Halder (a wealthy German American playboy), and Harry Weaver (who grew up in the servants quarters of Jack’s house), get together for high jinks, digging, and discovery. Both men fall in love with the same woman–Rachel Stern, a beautiful archaeologist. They shovel, talk, argue about who loves whom more, while Hitler invades Poland.

Four years later, World War II is at its height. Jack has become a German spy and Rachel is in a concentration camp. Both are pulled from their respective situations, and are sent by the Nazis to Cairo. Their mission is to help set the stage for a commando raid that will kill Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt. And guess who the Allies choose to destroy these dastardly plans? Army Intelligence’s own Lieutenant Colonel Harry Weaver, of course.

It’s ending is predictable about there is a surprise for reader. Though it would be not an ending reader would except but not all books have 100% happy endings. But I enjoyed the story  of  The Sands of Sakkara.