The Bourne Identity
1980 • 576 pages

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Jason Bourne is back in the forthcoming major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander. Go back to where it all began for Bourne in his first adventure - The Bourne Identity 'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday Times He was dragged from the sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: a frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the skin of his hip; evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face; strange things he says in his delirium, which could be code words. And a number on the film negative that leads to a bank account in Zurich, four million dollars and a name for the amnesiac: Jason Bourne. Now he is running for his life. A man with an unknown past and an uncertain future, the target of assassins and at the heart of a deadly puzzle. He's fighting for survival and no one can help him - except the one woman who once wanted to escape him ...

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Jason Bourne is a 20-book series with 20 released primary works first released in 4 with contributions by Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader, and Brian Freeman.

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The Bourne Identity
#2
The Bourne Supremacy
#3
The Bourne Ultimatum
#4
The Bourne Legacy
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The Bourne Betrayal
#6
The Bourne Sanction
#7
The Bourne Deception
#8
The Bourne Objective
#9
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion
#10
The Bourne Imperative
#11
The Bourne Retribution
#12
The Bourne Ascendancy

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Awesome, throw-away fiction. Entertaining as anything I've ever read, and completely unlike the movie.

February 27, 2012

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