"Cain is for Charlie, and Delta is for Cain."
Who doesn't know Jason Bourne? Other than Jason Bourne, that is. The movies with Matt Damon portraying the titular character (that Hollywood won't let die) cemented him in our minds, but let me tell you, the books - at least the original trilogy written by Ludlum himself - are SPECTACULAR. And I mean spectacular. They've got so much more plot in comparison to the movies, so much more detail and intricacy, and Bourne becomes an even better character stepping off the page than he is on the silver screen. So have a look at how Treadstone shaped this special agent - then spat him back out, and the consequences of that decision just so happened to shake the world at its foundations.
Who is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has someone tried to murder him? Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne. What are his secrets? Who has he killed? To succeed, he must maneuver through the dangerous labyrinth of international espionage—an exotic world filled with CIA plots, turncoat agents, and ever-shifting alliances—all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and the answers to his own fragmented past. For there are two Bournes—and one must die. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap, a trap from which only one of them will escape.
(from Goodreads)
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