The Bourne Identity (novel)
The Bourne Identity first edition cover
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| Author | Robert Ludlum |
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| Original title | The Bourne Identity |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series |
Jason Bourne Bourne Trilogy |
| Genre | Thriller, Spy novel |
| Publisher | Richard Marek |
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Publication date
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February 1980 |
| Pages | 523 pp (First edition) |
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| OCLC | 5675357 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.L9455 Bo PS3562.U26 |
| Followed by | The Bourne Supremacy |
The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller by Robert Ludlum that tells the story of Jason Bourne, a man with remarkable survival abilities who suffers from retrograde amnesia, and must seek to discover his true identity. In the process, he must also reason out why several shadowy groups, a professional assassin, and the CIA want him dead. The story takes readers on an action-packed journey into a world of deceptions and conspiracies, offering a psychological portrait of Bourne, and giving them the chance to experience from his point of view the life-or-death decisions he makes as he seeks to piece together the dangerous puzzle of his missing past. It is the first novel of the original Bourne Trilogy, which also includes The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.
Peter Cannon of Publishers Weekly named The Bourne Identity among the best spy novels of all time, after John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
The novel was the basis for the scripts of the 1988 television movie of the same name starring Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith, and the 2002 film of the same name, starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente and Chris Cooper.
The preface of the novel consists of two real-life newspaper articles from 1975 about terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal."
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