Robert Ludlum is, of course, the bestselling thriller writer of all time, having sold more than two hundred million copies of his twenty-two novels, and he has become known for the sweep and intricacy of his plots... Now he brings us The Prometheus Deception... his most ingenious novel yet...Ludlum transcends the genre.

It all starts with a deadly cat-and-mouse chase at a Baltimore funfair.The Jackal, jason Bourne's age-old antagonist,is back - and so too are the faceless watchers whose destiny it is to avenge' and destroy.

Forced out of an idyllic retirement,Jason Bourne must leave his wife and children to face his enemy - and confront the secret society of Medusa, a relic of war, now seeking ultimate power in peacetime.

Jason Bourne has been the assassin before. Older now, he longs for peace with his family, but the Jackal puts all peace in jeopardy - whilst Medusa reaches from the war-torn past into the vulnerability of today.