Georg Born is the greatest master of storytelling, who has perfectly mastered the set of techniques and author's tricks that allow him to constantly keep the reader in suspense. His novels always contain the most complex intrigue, or rather, such an intricacy of political and love intrigues that the reader’s attention is always strained to the limit in anticipation of new unexpected twists in the plot. With bated breath, Bourne's reader follows the struggle of human pride, which reaches a special intensity several times throughout each novel.