New Releases by Robert Ludlum

A once-great nation is determined to rebuild its shattered empire, and lightning military strikes against its neighbours are planned. But first they must sow confusion and fear in the ranks of their enemies. They turn to one of the world''s wealthiest and most powerful men. He has control over an undetectable and incurable bio-weapon, the perfect assassin''s tool. Created using a strand of each victim''s own DNA, it is the ultimate precision-guided silent killer. Lt Col. Jon Smith and his Covert-One operatives take orders from the US President: their mission is to stop this murderous conspiracy - and thwart the leaders who are seeking to restore their country to her former power...

Smith is ordered to find the truth behind an anti-technology movement that may be responsible for killing thousands during a protest at a nano-technology research facility.

In this thriller, Covert-One operative Lt. Col. Jon Smith must find a mysterious figure who stands at the center of a nefarious assassination plot.

In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, a once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by an underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed, and the intelligence agents involved have disappeared without trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For, unbeknown to the world at large, the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions and for ever change the nature of the world.

Jason Bourne, now a professor at Georgetown University, feels life is finally his own--until he becomes the target of an assassin.

Of all Robert Ludlum''s bestsellers, the Bourne novels are the ones that have intrigued his thousands of readers the most. A man without a past is washed into the nets of a fishing boat. He is barely alive and has no knowledge of who he is or how he got there. All he has is a passport in the name of Jason Bourne - a man, it seems, who has many deadly skills and even more deadly enemies. Over the course of three books, THE BOURNE IDENTITY, THE BOURNE SUPREMACY and THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, he gradually comes to realize who and what he really is - a strange amalgam of his original self, a man named David Webb, and the deadly killer identity that goes by the name Jason Bourne. An identity that many would like to see gone forever... Now, fourteen years later, we have an amazing, brand new Bourne novel, written by the legendary Eric Van Lustbader. David Webb is now living a peaceful life as a university professor in the backwoods of America with his wife and children. But from the other side of the world someone is reaching out to take him out of the game forever. A deadly assassin in on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered already. It seems that David Webb must once again turn to Bourne to save his life and family...

A Covert-One Novel. Novel 3 in the series.

The third novel in the Covert One series When an explosion destroys the esteemed Pasteur Institute in Paris, cyber-wizard Marty Zellerbach is left in a coma and one of the world''s top computer scientists, Emile Chambord, goes missing. Although a terrorist group claims responsibility for the bombing, American and British officials wonder whether there may be something more sinister behind it. Meanwhile in a clandestine army lab in Colorado, Lt. Col. Jon Smith is part of a team working to create a DNA computer, the most powerful computer the world has ever seen. When he learns that his friend Marty is seriously injured, he plans to leave for Paris. But then Nathan Klein, the shadowy chief of Covert-One, shows up with an assignment: find Dr. Chambord. From Paris to London, Brussels to Algiers, Smith uncovers a web of deception that will reshape Europe and threatens to destroy the United States.

The murder of a Russian colleague sends Lt. Colonel Jon Smith on a quest to find the terrorists threatening to steal Russia''s remaining store of smallpox virus before they can unleash an epidemic on the world.

Nicholas Bryson, an agent for a covert American group called the Directorate, comes out of retirement after learning the Directorate is actually a traitorous group and joins forces with the CIA to put a stop to their actions.

Determined to wreak vengeance on the person who drummed him out of the military, General MacKenzie Hawkins, along with his legal wizard, Sam Devereaux, hatches a brilliant plot to reclaim the state of Nebraska. Reprint.

A novel about rival spies who cooperate in order to stop an international group of murderers.

Set in the closing months of WW II, this story concerns the defection of a high-level Nazi who may be able to bring peace with him.