Jason Bourne · Book 3

The Bourne Ultimatum

by Robert Ludlum

Published
25 February 1990
Pages
720
ISBN-13
9780586064566
Type
novel

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About this book

Credited to Robert Ludlum and released in 1990, The Bourne Ultimatum closes out his original trilogy at 720 pages -- the last entry before the series passed to Eric Van Lustbader, who would write eleven further novels moving Bourne toward globe-spanning conspiracy.

Its place in Jason Bourne

The Bourne Ultimatum is book 3 in the Jason Bourne series. It follows The Bourne Supremacy. It is followed by The Bourne Legacy. 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…

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