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The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about an amnesiac who must discover who he is and why several different groups, including an assassin and the CIA, are trying to kill him. It is the first in a series of novels written by Ludlum, and later Eric Van Lustbader, featuring Jason Bourne. The Bourne Identity has been adapted into a 1988 television mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith, and a 2002 movie starring Matt Damon and Franka Potente. Plot summary
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
In Zürich, the protagonist learns that his name is Jason Bourne and, while attempting to retrace his steps on his previous visit to the city, attracts the attention of several people who either fear him, warn him of danger, or try to kill him (but all unhelpfully assume that he already knows why). He begins to suspect, on the basis of circumstantial evidence, that he may have been a professional assassin prior to losing his memory. He also meets a woman named Marie St. Jacques in Zürich and on the spur of the moment, uses her as a sort of hostage to escape an attempt on his life in a crowded convention hotel. Realizing that he has put her life in danger as well, he risks his own life to prevent her from being executed. This is the first clue that there may be more to the protagonist than a cold-blooded killer. As the evidence and the double-crosses mount up, it appears at first that Jason Bourne is an associate of, then a competitor to, the infamous terrorist Carlos. In the end, however, it is revealed that the protagonist is actually a CIA agent in deep cover as a fictional assassin, Jason Bourne, in order to get close to Carlos, and that he received his injuries after blowing his cover trying to prevent an assassination. Jason Bourne goes by many names, such as Cain and Delta. His real name, however, is David Webb. In a dramatic finale, he faces Carlos—alone and unaided as the CIA believes that he's gone rogue. The 1988 miniseries is reasonably true to the plot of the novel, but the film was changed to exclude the subplot about assassin "Carlos" and, equally or more significantly, the fact of Bourne's innocence — it is maintained that he actually was an assassin (though of CIA employ). Sequels
See also
fr:La Mémoire dans la peau (roman) it:The Bourne Identity nl:The Bourne Identity no:Bourne-Identiteten pl:Tożsamość Bourne'a sv:The Bourne Identity
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