The title underscores the franchise and the hope that readers will buy a Ludlumesque book that he did nothing more than inspire. Lustbader’s newest novel bears the title Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Betrayal, in which the agency believes he has gone rogue by killing two of its own, and orders him terminated. Two best-sellers by the veteran thriller writer Lustbader have lengthened the troubled double life of Jason Bourne, Ludlum’s CIA-handled assassin who had amnesia when readers first met him, and whose memories have returned in glimmers. A seventh, The Arctic Event by James Cobb, the fifth writer in the series, is due in September. He oversaw the first three-two by Gayle Lynds and one by Philip Shelby-before he died, but three more have been published since. Weiner and Morris have executed an aggressive plan that has perpetuated the ‘Covert-One’ series that Ludlum created with the central character of Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith. “I don’t think anyone objects as long as you maintain the quality of the book," Morrison said. Whether it is fair to readers to publish Ludlum books posthumously-in the form of spruced-up old manuscripts or new novels written by others-is not a serious concern for the estate or Grand Central Publishing, the former Warner Books, where the rights to all new novels moved from St.
“People expect something from a Robert Ludlum book, and if we can publish Ludlum books for the next 50 years and satisfy readers, we will," said Jeffrey Weiner, the executor of Ludlum’s estate. Andrews, dead since 1986, but selling well thanks to novels written in her name by an uncredited author and Ernest Hemingway, whose estates issued several books after his suicide. His estate has borrowed from, among others, the examples of V.C. He said, ‘I don’t want my name to disappear’." “One day, we were talking about what would happen when he was gone. “This goes back to 1990 or 1991 when Bob (Robert Ludlum) had a quadruple bypass," said Henry Morrison, Ludlum’s agent.
He had little reason to worry: He is now a brand extended far into his afterlife. Ludlum did not want to be forgotten or leave behind only an enormous backlist that started with The Scarlatti Inheritance in 1971.
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