The Bourne Identity (novel)

The Bourne Identity (novel)

The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about Jason Bourne, a retrograde amnesiac who must discover who he is and why several groups, including an assassin and the CIA, are trying to kill him. It is the first of the original Bourne Trilogy.

Peter Cannon in Publishers Weekly named The Bourne Identity the second best spy novel of all-time, behind John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.