Eric Van Lustbader

Eric Van Lustbader is an American novelist born in Greenwich Village, New York City, on December 24, 1946. A graduate of Stuyvesant High School and Columbia College, he published his first fantasy novel, The Sunset Warrior, in the 1970s and went on to write the Sunset Warrior cycle.

He broke through with The Ninja (1980), the first of the Nicholas Linnear novels, which continued with The Miko, White Ninja, The Kaisho, Floating City and Second Skin.

With the permission of the Robert Ludlum estate he took over the Jason Bourne series after The Bourne Ultimatum, beginning with The Bourne Legacy (2004), and wrote the continuation novels until leaving the series in 2018. He has also written standalone thrillers and further fantasy.