Robert Ludlum

A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully – each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists in a US government laboratory has been frantically trying to unlock the virus's secrets. Lt. Col.

A Chinese politician assassinated in Hong Kong. Jason Bourne’s name found at the scene…the killer has returned! Who’s paying him and who will he kill next? But American officials know there never was an assassin called Bourne. So who is the impostor? How can he be stopped?

Larkin (The Tribune) picks up the reins for the fifth entry in the Ludlum-spawned Covert-One biotech series (The Altman Code; etc.), bringing to the task a solid intelligence, some really scary nanotechnology and a writing style that sometimes lapses into cliché but always gets the job done.

Jeho paměť je nepopsaný list. Pokud chce zjistit, co je zač, musí udělat nemožné. Vstal z mrtvých v létě 1975 u středomořského ostrůvku, kde ho postřeleného a se ztracenou pamětí vylovila rybářská bárka.

„What they're going to do, I would never have believed it. It's insanity!“ They were the last words spoken by Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia's security service, before his body was ripped apart by a spray of assassin's bullets.

In a secret room in Washington DC John Tanner is asked to stake his life – and those of his wife and children – on a gamble whose goals and risks no one will fully reveal to him.