In my opinion, this is where he went wrong. Basically reinventing the character with an overhaul of his life and personality. Then, he seemly started over from scratch for the next 3 books.
USED ROBERT LUDLUM BOOKS SERIES
The problem may have been that after having started his series pretty true to Jason Bourne ,due to poor reviews, publisher feedback or trying to fit better to the fans of Matt Damon's younger/edgier Jason Bourne, Van Lustbader then threw away Jason's life and identity, as well as, began killing off Ludlum's supporting characters and introducing his own by the his second book. Within the first few chapters of Van Lustbader's second novel, Jason gives up being David Webb and little more is mentioned of his life as David Webb. Jason, in Ludlum's books, hated Jason Bourne and wanted to be David Webb. Thinking Khan would be a featured character going forward, he has not been heard from since. In Van Lustbader's first Bourne novel he told a pretty decent story about Jason, seemingly in his early 40's, finding his long lost son, Khan. Now, he has introduced a much different supporting cast that dominate, rather than compliment Jason, in his books. Van Lustbader killed off the remainder of those characters in his 2nd and early pages of his 3rd books. Ludlum built some great supporting characters over his 3 Bourne novels and they fleshed out who Jason was. Suddenly, in Van Lustbader's second Bourne novel, Marie caught a cold, died and Jason decided to dump their kids with her parents in Canada in the first 25 pages of his 2nd novel and has not seen, mentioned or thought about them since. Jason's world used to revolve around Marie. Pellet-sized ultrasonic screamers that paralyze large rooms of people, files locked using "logarithms", burner cellphones a "local call" then one using a 10-digit number, laptop computers with ejectable drives and netbooks that can be massively upgraded by an agent in the field litter this inconclusive chapter of David Webb's life, conflict with reality, adding nothing except length to the book. In the first few pages of The Bourne Objective, van Lustbader uses logarithm when he means algorithm, twice (at least), and he uses precipitously when he means either vertically or perpendicularly.
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