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Winter/Spring 2009

Hello Loyal Fans

Thanks for continuing to tune in, and to read.  You made First Daughter into a massive success, so much so that I 've started work on the next Jack McClure novel, tentatively titled, Last Snow.  It brings Jack, Alli and, of course, Emma (is she a ghost? an angel?  who knows?) to Moscow at the behest of the newly-elected President Carson, for whom our hero now works.  Just what Jack is about to step into I can't yet say without spoiling some of the surprises, but suffice it to say that the plot revolves around the real-life discord between Russia and Ukraine that in our present, as well in the novel, has the potential to re-write the political, economic and, most important of all, the energy landscape for decades to come.  Sounds good to me.  You?

I finished The Bourne Deception just before Thanksgiving.  It will be published on June 9 and the cover will be featured exclusively on this site  as soon as GCP provides me with a j-peg.  Deception is the second novel to feature Bourne's mortal nemesis and doppleganger, Leonid Arkadin, in which we learn more about Arkadin's past and his unique rela tionship to Bourne.  Folks, I'm not kidding, this book is the best yet, so don't miss it.

It was a good thing I finished Deception when I did because it allowed me to write the first third of Last Snow before I left on vacation.  No one could have been more surprised than I was because I'd been planning to relax for the Holiday season.  No, sir!  Jack just would not let me be.  And it's a good thing for you, too, beca use that means there's an excellent chance that Last Snow will be out this time next year.  Great news for every Jack McClure fan out there -- of which there are many, he's fast becoming my most popular character since Nicholas Linnear.

What vacation, you ask?  I went to East Africa for three weeks, exploring Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, including exotic Zanzibar for locations for the next Bourne book, The Bourne Objective, which is due to be published in June, 2010, in tandem with the fourth Jason Bourne film from Universal, starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass.  I saw the most incredible array of wildlife imaginable, cluding (lucky me!) a pair of leopards and a cheetah kill from the stalking beginning to the chowing-down end.

For those of you still asking about The Ninja film project, I've hired the person who put the deal together for the Bourne films to handle ongoing negotiations with 20th Century Fox in order to get the film out of limbo.  More here when I get further news.

That's it for now.

Hang in there and, above all, keep reading, so save your pennies for when my new books come out.  Dolllar for dollar books are the best entertainment you can buy.

As always, my sincere thanks and best wishes to all of you,

EVL