The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Supremacy first edition cover
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| Author | Robert Ludlum |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series |
Jason Bourne, Bourne Trilogy |
| Genre | Thriller novel |
| Publisher | Random House |
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Publication date
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February 11, 1986 |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 597 pp (first edition) |
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| OCLC | 12371273 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3562.U26 B68 1986 |
| Preceded by | The Bourne Identity |
| Followed by | The Bourne Ultimatum |
The Bourne Supremacy is the second Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum, first published in 1986. It is the sequel to Ludlum's bestseller The Bourne Identity (1980) and precedes Ludlum's final Bourne novel, The Bourne Ultimatum (1990).
The Bourne Supremacy gave its name to the second Bourne film starring Matt Damon The Bourne Supremacy in 2004, which, however, has a completely different plot from the novel.
In the first book, The Bourne Identity, the title character suffers amnesia. Over the course of the book, he regains his memory with the help of a Canadian economist, Marie, and eventually finds out that his real name was Webb. He had previously been an operative of the Central Intelligence Agency in an elite project in Southeast Asia and Vietnam codenamed Medusa. Following the American forces' withdrawal from Vietnam, he joined Project Treadstone 71, where he was used as bait for the infamous European assassin Carlos the Jackal, and assumed the identity of a mock assassin, Jason Bourne. “Bourne" took credit for various kills in China and the rest of Asia, acting as a rival to the Jackal, in order to draw him out of hiding.
The story of The Bourne Supremacy is set during the British negotiated handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China on the expiration of its ninety-nine-year lease on the New Territories.
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