This book was an obvious attempt by the publishers to cash in on the popularity of the movies. Van Lustbader, while keeping to the timelines and events of the previous Ludlum novels, decided to ignore much of what was written in The Bourne Ultimatum. It was pretty clear that Ludlam was trying to wrap up the Bourne story with the major focus of his last book being that Bourne was getting much to old to deal with the physical toll being a secret agent puts on one's body. I thought, since the word legacy was in the title, that Van Lustbader would try to push the Bourne story forward by passing the thrown on to another agent (much like we see in the trailers to the up coming films) but no, he moved forward throwing Jason Bourne back into the action never mentioning the fact that Bourne has to be over 50 according to the time line that he decided to keep.
Although I was getting tired of some aspects of Ludlum's novels by the third installment, I was a big fan of the Bourne books. They were never your typical spy thrillers. There was a feeling of reality and psychology that Ludlum threw into his stories giving them a much deeper meaning then most mass produced main stream novels. Van Lustbader has in no way carried these themes on. I'm sure Ludlum was turning in his grave when the movies butchered and ignored his creation, so I can't imagine what he was doing when this novel came out. The Bourne Legacy is silly, vapid and insulting. By all means, stay away from this book. There is nothing between the two covers except a ridiculous waste of time.
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