The third Evan Ryder novel, Omega Rules, is due in May 2022. The follow-up, The Kobalt Dossier, will be published in June 2021. The Nemesis Manifesto, the first novel in the series was published in 2020. Lustbader turned his hand to writing three sequels to his internationally bestselling novel The Testament.Īt the beginning of 2020 he stepped away from the Bourne franchise to concentrate on a new series, starring Evan Ryder, a female field agent with a complicated and surprising past. There are five books in the McClure series.Īfterward, Mr. Lustbader’s first continuing characters since Nicholas Linnear and Jake Maroc.

The novel features Jack McClure and Alli Carson, Mr. Lustbader wrote First Daughter to wide acclaim. Lustbader has gone on to write twelve more Bourne novels in the span of fourteen years. The Bourne Legacy, published in 2004 continues and updates the adventures of Robert Ludlum’s famous international assassin. In 2003, he was asked by Estate of the late Robert Ludlum to continue the series based on Jason Bourne. The result was “Batman - The Dark Angel,” which was the only graphic novel to be chosen as a Monthly Choice of the Quality Paperback Book Club. Lustbader chose to write about his favorite childhood comic character, Batman.

In 2000 he was asked by DC Comics to write a graphic novel. He also has two stories in anthologies from the International Thriller Writers, an organization of which he is a long-time member. A highly successful short novel, Art Kills, was published in 2000 by Carroll & Graf.

Three of the short stories appeared in 1999: “Hush,” in Off The Beaten Path: Stories of Place for Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, “Slow Burn,” in Murder And Obsession for Delacourt Press, and “An Exultation of Termagants” in the millennial supernatural mega-collection 1999 for Avon Books. He is the author of a number of short stories, screenplays and novellas. Lustbader is also the author of two successful and highly regarded major fantasy series, The Pearl, published by Tor Books in the US and HarperCollins/Voyager in the UK and The Sunset Warrior Cycle. It also introduced the Western world to the Japanese term itself. The Ninja introduced Nicholas Linnear, one of modern fiction’s most beloved and enduring heroes, continuing his exploits in five subsequent best-sellers. Since then, he has published more than thirty-five best-selling novels, beginning with The Ninja, a New York Times Bestseller for 24 consecutive weeks. Eric Van Lustbader’s first novel, The Sunset Warrior, was published in 1975.

The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader