BOURNE
Evening all. My book reviews will consist four
parts;
1. Vague summary of the book.
2. The Plot.
3. My Verdict.
4. My rating; on a scale of bloody-awesome to
ducking-awful.
Here goes:

SUMMARY:
The book of discourse today is BOURNE IDENTITY
-- the first book in the original installment of
a trilogy (its been continued by a number of
authors since Robert Ludlum's demise). The
Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy-fiction-thriller
resplendent in action packed, espionage-filled
themes that tells the tale of a certain Jason
Bourne; a chronic amnesiac with no recollection of
his person and no vestige of his past, save for a
microfilm (this was 1980, remember?!!) and a
Swiss bank account holding a cool $5m.
As Mr Robert Ludlum is wont to do, he takes the
reader into a very energetic, highly charged
amorphous world of a complex man whose
psychobiological configuration is so different to the
everyday man it almost belies credulity. Almost.

PLOT :
The preface contains two 1975 'real life' write-ups
about Sanchez Ilich Ramirez ominously dubbed
'Carlos the Jackal'.
In a world infinitely more chaotic than mine, a
man is fished out of the Mediterranean sea in
Marseilles where a degenerate doctor stitches him
up and he wakes without any solid recollection of
his previous life. Only clue he has is a microfilm
which leads him to Zurich where several attempts
are made on his life. He escapes, survives and
instinctively adapts to goings-on around and about
him. In a bid to piece together his fragmented life,
circumstances lead him from Marseilles to Zurich
to Paris where he meets and befriends a Canadian
economist in an obligatory love twist to the story.
Bourne has spasmodic recollections of a turbulent
past. He speaks several Mandarin dialects and is
so well versed in disguise, combat and weapons
of all sorts he would put Jack Bauer to shame. He
(and his increasingly prominent girlfriend) must
escape death traps from both the CIA and a
ruthless assassin (Carlos) who possesses a super
network of highly motivated comrades -- while he
tries to make sense of his life.

MY VERDICT:
By now, everyone must have seen a movie or read
a book about the many covert operations of the
CIA the world over. If you haven't, this is a good
place to start. In my honest opinion, The Bourne
Identity gives the reader a firsthand knowledge of
what goes on in the dark labyrinthine world of a
spy and the life and death decisions he has to
make on a daily basis.
Mr Ludlum does a brilliant job of describing the
combats, the weapons and the characters are a
complex bunch.
If you are not a fan of conspiracies, you'll find the
book a little tedious and curse Cue for not warning
you about a boring read.
If on the other hand you love spy stuff, you'll love
this one. Amidst all those spy-yey guff, there are
some hardcore lessons applicable in the
nonfictional world.
The book offers a course in bribery, concentration,
focus, resilience and animalistic desire to survive
through some quality epithets. Do yourself a
favour, and read a copy.

CUE's RATING:
BLOODY AWESOME.

Captaincue blogs at: http://captaincue..com.es/?m=1

Dude, seriously I don't see the point of doing this review now... I read the entire series like 3years ago...

Dioxidane:
Dude, seriously I don't see the point of doing this review now... I read the entire series like 3years ago...

some haven't.