Bourne defiance by Brian Freeman

 "The Bourne defiance" by Brian Freeman - What’s defiance? 

This book was published by Head of Zeus- An Aries book in 2024 and has 400 pages. This is Book 18 of Jason Bourne series. 

American presidential elections are close. The race is heating up. One by one several Treadstone agents are being killed. Some one is cleaning up. All the agents are related to a secret operation called ‘Defiance’. Bourne doesn’t remember if he was ever associated with Defiance but he is attacked and survives. He decides to get to the bottom. He discovers that several unrelated persons are also being eliminated. Defiance was about an airliner that went missing mid air, never to be found.

What was Defiance? Why are persons related to it being killed? Is Iran involved? Who is behind this? Can Bourne get to the bottom?

The story starts with a lot of questions. On one side Bourne has to get to the bottom of the mystery. On the other, he has to try and keep his girlfriend Abby (an author) out of this and protect their relationship. But anyone related to Bourne automatically gets a target on their back. 

Author keeps the identity of mastermind under wraps for majority of the book. The readers are looking somewhere else and the mastermind is somewhere else. There lies his success.

One shouldn’t ask questions like, how everyone around Bourne dies but he survives?

Author has made Bourne younger. Now he is in his late thirties or early forties. So you have to forget the original trilogy and only take the concept of a spy who has lost his memory forward.

The end of the book is predictable and also appropriate. That gives the author something to continue the series.

Why did I read this book? Bourne novel after a long time. 

What I didn't like? Bourne remains anonymous in America.

What did I like? Hidden identity of the mastermind. 

Read if you like Bourne series.