Final instalment in the Bourne series. Now David Webb is living a peaceful life as a univesity professor in the backwood of America with his wife and children. But someone is reaching out to take him out of the game forever. A deadly assassin is on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered already.
In Asia, Nicholas Linnear, the Eurasian hero, battles Rock, a Vietnam War veteran spreading chaos and destruction from his hideaway in the Vietnamese jungle. Rock is threatening to fire a nuclear missile.
Brian Aldiss, with the kind of science-fiction fantasy of which he is one of the finest exponents alive today. - Sunday Telegraph Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may as easily have congress as Bodenland himself manages to make love to Mary Shelley. TheGuardian Brian Aldiss's monster is a beaut. The eerie, icy, last confrontation between it (and its mate) and Joe with his felder car and swivel-gun is intense and vivid - The Sunday Times