Guys! Read the Book

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2007)

Folks, I am amazed that none of you seems to have actually READ THE BOOK. The movies are, as everyone has said, fantastic. Ludlum, however is a master story teller and the books are far more exciting and detailed. Jason Bourn was actually an assassin and because of a head wound has no Idea who he is and why he can kill several armed men in an elevator. So far you are probably with me because this part of the first movie is faithful to the book.
However, The second book (supremacy) begins, not in the jungle with Marie being murdered. It begins in Boston where David Web is forced to become Jason Bourn again to save Marie from her kidnappers (the US and British intell services) by capturing the impostor who has taken Jason Bourn's name and is killing people all over the world.
Finally, as great as Matt is, he cannot BE David Web/Jason Bourn. The reason is that, while in the first book, his wife and son in SE Asia are killed. In the last book (this may be the spoiler, I have only read the third book, and have not seen the movie) He learns that the son he thought was killed, was not! and is the assassin who has chosen to be the impostor - - using the name "Jason Bourn" the man he hates because he thinks he is the father who ABANDONED him when he was a small boy, and not he broken angry man who, furious, killed and killed, and killed to avenge the son he thought had been murdered.
See the movies, enjoy them! They are great. I am on my way to see the third (maybe the last, maybe not) movie. But then I am going to read the fourth book written by Eric Lustbarger, A novelist of Ludlum's stature and an expert in the myths and lifestyle of the Far East