Yet because his hunters have so many other motives than the basics in the movie, the reader feels like he’s involved in a much larger saga than could fit into three 90-minute films. Treadstone exists, as do some other familiar names from the films. In the book, Jason Bourne was created and used to draw out Carlos, the world’s most dangerous assassin. Nevertheless, the requisite action and suspense shined like stars. Originally, The Bourne Identity grew out of the Vietnam era with heavy Soviet ties, a lot more like John Le’Carre’s plotlines than those that would be written today. They couldn’t have anything in common! Boy was I right.īeyond the amnesia plot, the fact that Jason’s name really is David Webb, and the chance involvement of a female character, this books shared almost nothing in common. After all, the movies enjoyed 30 important years of technological advances that the books did not. It was during those years that I tentatively picked up the original novel, fully in spy-mode yet doubtful that the book could be as enthralling as the movie franchise. ![]() The Jason Bourne fever has died down a lot over the past few years, but it wasn’t too long ago when Matt Damon’s character-the revised version Robert Ludlum’s original-was all the rage.
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