Someone else has taken the Bourne identity and unless he is stopped, the world will pay a devastating price. The name was created as cover for David Webb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. officials know the shocking truth: There is no Jason Bourne. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is the next to die? But U.S. The Chinese vice premier has been brutally slain by a legendary assassin. In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne. Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six pack of thriller writers combines.’ The New York Times And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him. 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.
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.
Strange things that he says in his delirium maybe code words. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets.