Matt Damon starred in those three movies, plus a fourth that came later and was not a part of the three books written by Robert Ludlum.

(The DVD covers for the 2002, 2004, and 2007 movies starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne).Īs suggested by the movie trilogy suggested above, Ludlum wrote three books about the character Jason Bourne. There are Mafia ties, Russian spies, and members of the CIA in the mix of choosing between the duty of their agency and/or country and their conscience in discerning between the integrity of Carlos and Jason/David. Ludlum‘s book version of The Bourne Ultimatum delves much more fully into the character David Webb into using his skills as Jason Bourne (the assassin) in Manassas, Virginia and then the U.S.S.R. to bring about the death of Carlos the Jackal, who has been seeking to bring about the death of Jason Bourne. The man must choose between his two personalities into his early 50s as Carlos the Jackal had also aged. The third book picks up a few years after The Bourne Supremacy book with Jason Bourne more clearly split into the two consciousnesses of himself, namely David Webb and Jason Bourne. The movie leaves us largely where the first book, The Bourne Identity, left us. The story present in the book is completely unrelated to the 2007 movie. Many will remember the movie version of The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), which starred Matt Damon in the starring role of lead protagonist Jason Bourne, aka David Webb.

working alongside these two as the brother of the assassin’s wife is trusted to protect the assassin’s wife and kids because he, the brother, shares that he has killed before? This is the setting that Robert Ludlum brought us the 1990 book The Bourne Ultimatum. An assassin who recovered some pieces of his memory from amnesia when the terrorist Carlos the Jackal threatens him, his wife, and their two kids? The therapist and the CIA operative who tried to kill the assassin in the first book of the series are drawn into the fray, announcing that Carlos intends to kill the assassin whose only wish is to recover the safety his country owes him after becoming that assassin for that country? Spies of the U.S.S.R.

The bourne ultimatum by robert ludlum