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デイビッド・ウェブとしての平穏はつかのまだった。彼は“暗殺者”ボーンとして、再び殺戮の巷に帰ってきた。見えざる力を駆使する男たちの仕組んだ罠におちて―。アジア。そこはかつて家族を殺され、自ら殺人鬼となることを志願した土地だった。香港の雑踏に立ったときから、彼の意識と身体はボーンのものに還っていた。拉致された妻、マリーはこの香港のどこかにいる。自分の名前を騙る謎の暗殺者、その正体を突きとめることがマリーの発見につながる。そう信じるボーンの前に、やがてもう一つの恐るべき陰謀の貌が浮かびあがってくる。
From Publishers Weekly
Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this. A Peking leader of seemingly irreproachable reputation, secretly a Kuomintang fanatic, has masterminded a plot to take over Hong Kong via political assassination, the result of which would be civil war in China and possibly global disaster. His principal agent is an assassin-for-hire masquerading as the legendary "Jason Bourne," a one-time secret U.S. agent now, under his real name David Webb, struggling with the aid of a psychiatrist and his loving wife Marie to recover from amnesia. Only one man can destroy the conspiracy: Webb, who must be persuaded to re-assume his Bourne identity, track down the impostor and through him lay a trap for the vile Shengthe "persuasion" to be by way of his abducted wife. The action jolts from the back alleys of Hong Kong and Kowloon to a secret government complex in the Colorado mountains to the seats of power in Peking and even the interior of Mao's tomb. Every chapter ends with a cliff-hanger; the story brims with assassination, torture, hand-to-hand combat, sudden surprise and intrigue within intrigue. It's a sure-fire bestseller. 650,000 first printing; $150,000 ad/promo; BOMC selection; Franklin Library limited edition.
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