The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about a retrograde amnesiac who must discover who he is and why several groups, including an assassin and the CIA, are trying to kill him. It is the first of the Bourne Conspiracy novels written by Ludlum, and later Eric Van Lustbader, featuring Jason Bourne.
The Bourne Identity was voted the second best spy novel of all-time, behind John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from...
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The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about a retrograde amnesiac who must discover who he is and why several groups, including an assassin and the CIA, are trying to kill him. It is the first of the Bourne Conspiracy novels written by Ludlum, and later Eric Van Lustbader, featuring Jason Bourne.
The Bourne Identity was voted the second best spy novel of all-time, behind John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by Publishers Weekly.
The novel was adapted into a 1988 television mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith, and a 2002 movie starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente and Chris Cooper.
The protagonist is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea with several bullet wounds, including a head wound which results in amnesia. The doctor treating him finds a message surgically embedded in his hip that contains details of a Swiss bank account, presumably held anonymously.
In Zürich, Switzerland, the protagonist learns that his...
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