"Jason Bourne must confront a nightmare version of himself -- an amoral, heartless killer -- in this new novel in Robert Ludlum's bestselling series." -- Provided by publisher.

The Central Intelligence training program Treadstone produced two graduates of equal skill and determination -- Jason Bourne and a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin. As Bourne's destiny circles closer to Arkadin's, it becomes clear that the eventual collision of these men is not of their own making. Someone else has been watching and manipulating them. Someone who wants to know, "Who is the more deadly agent?"

"Evan Ryder is a lone wolf, a field agent for a black-ops arm of the DOD, who has survived unspeakable tragedy and dedicated her life to protecting her country. When her fellow agents begin to be systematically eliminated, Evan must unravel the thread that ties them all together...and before her name comes up on the kill list. The list belongs to a mysterious cabal known only as Nemesis, a hostile entity hell-bent on tearing the United States apart....

Jason Bourne is now someone who is hired by high-level government ministers to impersonate them at meetings with uncertain security. Bourne is at one such meeting when armed gunmen storm the room after Bourne himself. Kidnapped and transported to an underground bunker, Bourne finds himself face-to-face with a well-known terrorist, a man who calls himself El Ghadan. He demands that Bourne carry out a special mission for him that, if completed, will...