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To prevent a war in Asia - one that could quickly spread to the rest of the world - Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid must learn the truth behind a young woman's murder...

Japan and China are thrown close to the brink of war when a Japanese warship is attacked. Meanwhile, top Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to recover mysterious material from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactor. Smith vanishes, and CIA agent Randi Russell goes on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by Chief of Staff Masao Takahashi, has been developing next-generation weapons systems in preparation for a conflict with China. The Covert-One team must prevent Takahashi from sparking a war, or the world will be dragged into a battle certain to kill tens of millions of people and leave much of the planet uninhabitable.

Japan and China are thrown close to the brink of war when a Japanese warship is attacked. Meanwhile top Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to recover mysterious material from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactor. Smith vanishes, and CIA agent Randi Russell goes on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by Chief of Staff Masao Takahashi, has been developing next-generation weapons systems in preparation for a conflict with China. The Covert-One team must prevent Takahashi from sparking a war, or the world will be dragged into a battle certain to kill tens of millions of people and leave much of the planet uninhabitable.

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To prevent a war in Asia - one that could quickly spread to the rest of the world - Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid must learn the truth behind a young woman's murder...Prominent U.S. Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son Gregory. Gregory's girlfriend Lynell has been found strangled in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the crime. But Senator Wyckoff insists that his son is innocent, suggesting that Lynell, who was a translator, may have been murdered because of something she overheard at a recent international conference. And when Janson and Kincaid realize they're being hunted by an assassin, they suspect that this crime - and the cover-up - were orchestrated by a shadowy unit of the U.S. State Department as part of a larger plot to provoke violence between North and South Korea.

Jason Bourne is now working as a ''blacksmith'' - someone who is hired by high-level government ministers fearful of assassination attempts. He is paid to impersonate these men at meetings in places of uncertain security around the globe. Bourne is at one such meeting when armed gunmen storm the room - but their target is not the minister he impersonates, it is Bourne himself.Kidnapped and transported to an underground bunker, Bourne finds himself face-to-face with a well-known terrorist, a man who calls himself El Ghadan (''Tomorrow''). El Ghadan demands that Bourne carry out a special mission for him - one, that if completed, will have dire consequences for the entire world.

On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there s one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients Ambler isn t crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out who put him there, and uncover the truth of who he was and why someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead.

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 of risking his life, Bourne finds himself chafing under the quiet life of a linguistics professor. Aware of his frustrations, his academic mentor, Professor Specter, asks for help investigating the murder of a former student by a previously unknown Muslim extremist sect. The young man died carrying information about the group's terrorist activities, including an immediate 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 incompetence, National Security Agency operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could-hunt down and kill Bourne. In Europe, Bourne's investigation into the Black Legion turns into one of the deadliest and 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 . . .

El banquero norteamericano Ben Hartman llega a Zurich para pasar unas relajantes vacaciones en la nieve, invitado por un cliente que además quiere presentarle a su muy atractiva nieta. Y la fiesta parece completa cuando, en la puerta del hotel, se encuentra con Jimmy Cavanaugh, un viejo amigo de la universidad. El problema es que Jimmy lleva una pistola en la mano, y su objetivo parece no ser otro que el propio BenMientras tanto, la agente del Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos Anna Navarro esta a punto de realizar un descubrimiento de lo mas inquietante: la muerte de once hombres de un extremo a otro del globo esta relacionada con una misteriosa palabra en clave, Sigma, cuyas raices se hunden en tiempos de la segunda guerra mundial. Momento en que sus jefes deciden retirarla del caso y sabotear su carreraRobert Ludlum, gran maestro de la intriga internacional y creador del personaje de Jason Bourne que con tanto exito ha sido llevado recientemente a la gran pantalla, nos ofrece con El protocolo Sigma un nuevo thriller de los que quitan el aliento. Tambien, una impactante investigacion sobre el reparto del oro nazi y las organizaciones que desde la sombra intentan controlar los destinos de la politica economica mundial.

Jason Bourne era el espía perfecto, una máquina entrenada para acabar sin el menor pestañeo con quien se interpusiera en su camino, pero tras esa fachada se escondía un hombre que había perdido la memoria y la identidad. Tras recuperarlas, David Webb intenta llevar una vida comun y corriente como profesor de Linguistica en la Universidad de Georgetown. Hasta que una mañana, mientras atraviesa el campus caminando, una bala pasa zumbando junto a su cabeza y Bourne se ve obligado a tomar de nuevo las riendas de su personalidad. Pero los problemas no han hecho mas que comenzar. Alex Conklin, su antiguo jefe en la CIA, y Mo Panov, el psicologo que le ayudo a recobrar la normalidad, han sido ejecutados, lo que convierte a Webb en el principal sospechoso del crimen. Objeto de una nueva caza del hombre, el ex agente debera enfrentarse ademas a Khan, un asesino a sueldo tan silencioso y mortal como el propio Bourne en sus mejores dias. La desvastada Chechenia, Nairobi, Creta y una cumbre antiterrorista en Reykiavik son algunos de los escenarios en los que se desarrolla esta trepidante novela, un thriller con el que Eric Van Lustbader ha sabido escarbar en la compleja psique de Jason Bourne sin traicionar el espiritu de su amigo Robert Ludlum.

Eric Van Lustbader Jason Bourne's nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down. Bourne's search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people that brought down the airliner, leading him into one of the most deadly and challenging situations he has ever encountered. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis...