Jason Bourne · Book 1
The Bourne Identity
- Published
- 1 February 1980
- Pages
- 535
- ISBN-13
- 9780553450538
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Bourne Identity (1980) opens Robert Ludlum's original trilogy, introducing an assassin found half-dead in the Mediterranean with no memory of who he is -- only a killer's instincts and a Swiss bank account tattooed into his subconscious. It's a paranoid, pre-internet Cold War chase built entirely around amnesia, and the only book that closely resembles the later Matt Damon film franchise.
Its place in Jason Bourne
The Bourne Identity is book 1 in the Jason Bourne series. It is followed by The Bourne Supremacy. See the full Jason Bourne reading order.
Jason Bourne is a black-ops assassin found half-dead in the Mediterranean with no memory of who he is, only the physical instincts of a killer and a Swiss bank account number tattooed into his subconscious. Robert Ludlum's original trilogy (1980-1990) is a paranoid, pre-internet Cold War chase built entirely around Bourne's amnesia and his hunt for his own identity against the CIA program (Treadstone) that made him. After Ludlum's death in 2001, Eric Van Lustbader continued the character for eleven novels, moving…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553260113
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553450538