On a boring Saturday afternoon I picked up a copy of The Bourne Identity from a pile of novels in a public library. I began lazily with no intention of completing immediately but soon got hooked on to it and could not put it down. The Bourne Identity is one of Robert Ludlum?s seventeen novels and undoubtedly the best among the Bourne series, others being The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.
The book is a humdinger packed with surprises and twists. It begins when a man is found half dead in the rough seas off the coast of Marseille. The man is treated by an English doctor stuck on an island who finds out that the man has lost his memory.
The only clue is a photographic film implanted in his leg which gives a bank account number in Zurich. The book is about how this man roams places in search of his true identity relying on his instincts and certain familiar images coming to his mind.
In his hunt he gets mixed up with dangerous people who want to take his life and see him dead. He finds an accomplice in a Canadian economist named Marie St Jacques whom he had abducted to get out of a row.
Together they begin to piece things together and they learn about an international assassin named Carlos whom he vows to capture for reasons even unknown to him. The book goes on with this chase. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading chase thrillers.
The book is packed with twists and suspicions change rapidly. The rest you can read and judge for yourself.