VJ Books presents Eric Van Lustbader!

Eric Van Lustbader was born and raised in Greenwich Village. He dropped his middle name, Van, for several years due to a confusion about his last name. Lustbader is a graduate of Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology. Before turning to writing full time, he enjoyed highly successful careers in the New York City public school system, where he holds licenses in both elementary and early childhood education, and in the music business, where he worked for Elektra Records and CBS Records, among other companies.

His novels have been translated into over twenty languages; his books are best-sellers worldwide. In 2004, Mr. Lustbader was chosen by the estate of the late Robert Ludlum to continue the Jason Bourne novels. The first, The Bourne Legacy, was published in 2005. It garnered rave reviews and was an instant international bestseller. He is currently at work on the second Bourne novel, to be published in 2007. He is also the author of two successful and highly regarded series of fantasy novels, The Sunset Warrior Cycle and The Pearl Saga. He is the author of more than twenty-five best-selling novels, including The Ninja, in which he introduced Nicholas Linnear. The Ninja was sold to 20th CenturyFox, to be made into a major motion picture.

Besides "The Other Side of the Mirror" in THRILLER, he has written a number of short stories, screenplays and novellas. 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 999 for Avon Books. A short novel, Art Kills, was published by Carroll & Graf in December, 2001. 2006's The Testament has received advance rave reviews from Nelson DeMille, Steve Berry and Joseph Finder, among others.

In his spare time, Mr. Lustbader serves on the Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee, and is Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the City & Country School in Greenwich Village. He also tends his prized collection of Japanese maples and beech trees (which have been written up in The New York Times and Martha Stewart's Living). He is a Second-Level Reiki master. He and his wife Victoria have been residents of the South Fork of Long Island for more than fifteen years.

 

 

1. The Sunset Warrior (1977)
2. Shallows of Night (1978)
3. Dai-San (1978)
4. Beneath an Opal Moon (1980)
5. Dragons on the Sea of Night (1997)

1. The Ninja (1980)
2. The Miko (1984)
3. White Ninja (1990)
4. The Kaisho (1993)
5. Floating City (1994)
6. Second Skin (1995)

1. Jian (1985)
2. Shan (1986)

1. The Ring of Five Dragons (2001)
2. The Veil of a Thousand Tears (2002)
3. Mistress of the Pearl (2003)
     aka The Cage of Nine Banestones

4. The Bourne Legacy (2004)
5. The Bourne Betrayal (2007)
6. The Bourne Sanction (2008)
7. The Bourne Deception (2009)
8. The Bourne Objective (2010)
9. The Bourne Dominion (2011)
10. The Bourne Upset (2012)
The Second Bourne Trilogy (omnibus) (2009)

1. First Daughter (2008)
2. Last Snow (2010)

Sirens (1981)
Black Heart (1983)
Zero (1987)
French Kiss (1989)
Angel Eyes (1990)
Black Blade (1992)
Dark Homecoming (1997)
Pale Saint (1998)
The Bravo Testament (2006)
     aka The Testament
Blood Trust (2011)

Art Kills (2002)

Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1991)
David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible (1995)
Excalibur (1995)
Peter S Beagle's Immortal Unicorn (1995)
David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination (1996)
999 (1999)