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The Bourne Identity

by Robert Ludlum

ISBN: 0553260111
ISBN-13: 9780553260113
Format: Paperback

Summary

This contemporary classic spy thriller was the basis of both a 2002 theatrical film starring Matt Damon as well as a 1988 TV movie with Robert Chamberlain. A man is pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea by a fishing boat. He has been shot several times, bears the telltale scars of the plastic surgery that has altered his features, has a piece of microfilm displaying a Swiss bank account number implanted in his hip…and he has no memory. Aided by the money in the account, a few scraps of information (including his name: Jason Bourne), a ferocious will to survive, and the woman he kidnapped, he must figure out who he is, while eluding his deadly pursuers-chief of which is the world's most notorious assassin.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Bantam Books
Published date: 1988
Size: 4.25 x 7 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds

Publisher's Notes

Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium -- maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspirators -- led by Carlos, the world's most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him.

Other Editions

Hardcover - Putnam Pub Group (1980) - from $10.20
Paperback Reissue - Bantam Books (1988) - from $1.00

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