The Bourne Series (novel): Difference between revisions

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''Cain is for Carlos, and Delta is for Cain...''

Series of eight novels (so far), three written by [[Robert Ludlum]], the rest [[Franchise Zombie|by Eric Van Lustbader]]. They involve Jason Bourne, an ex-[[CIA]] assassin, who was involved in the Vietnam War as part of a secret organisation called Medusa. His goal was to create the image of a great assassin to lure out and kill (real-life assassin) [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal~~ Carlos the Jackal].

Series of eight novels (so far), three written by [[Robert Ludlum]], the rest [[Franchise Zombie|by Eric Van Lustbader]]. They involve Jason Bourne, an ex-[[CIA]] assassin, who was involved in the Vietnam War as part of a secret organisation called Medusa. His goal was to create the image of a great assassin to lure out and kill (real-life assassin) [[wikipedia:Carlos the Jackal|Carlos the Jackal]].

The first novel, ''The Bourne Identity'', involves Jason Bourne losing his memory and being hunted through the streets of Paris by the CIA (who think he's dodgy) and Carlos the Jackal (who just wants to kill him). On his way, he meets (well, more or less kidnaps) a Canadian economist called Marie St Jacques.

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* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Bourne and Carlos are good at planning several steps ahead, which is why they're so good at their jobs.

* [[Creator's Pet]]: Lustbader's Arkadin. Lustbader keeps filling the narration with Arkadin's past and making Bourne exhausted so Bourne cannot kill Arkadin. When someone writes Bourne novels and guarantees upfront that the villain is going to have his own '''trilogy''', you know that villain is a pet.

* [[Deep Cover Agent]]:

* [[Deep-Cover Agent]]:

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Lustbader just doesn't care.

** Apparently a "[[Play Station 3|Sony PS3]]" is a device [[Critical Research Failure|with a built-in screen that can be operated on board a commercial airliner.]]

** In Bourne Sanction, Lustbader repeatedly uses NSA field agents to assassinate Bourne. [[Critical Research Failure|NSA is signal intelligence; it does not send field spies.]]

* [[Discontinuity]]: See [[False Flag Operation]] below. In Ludlum's novel, Bourne is no assassin; he's just a tough man who takes credit of assassination. In Lustbader's, Bourne is a full-blown killer.

* [[Discontinuity]]: See [[False-Flag Operation]] below. In Ludlum's novel, Bourne is no assassin; he's just a tough man who takes credit of assassination. In Lustbader's, Bourne is a full-blown killer.

* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: In Legacy, where Lustbader kills Conklin and Panov right at the start of the story. In Betrayal, Marie is dead because of pneumonia.

* [[False Flag Operation]], with flavor of [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The whole point of Jason Bourne, at least in the original Ludlum books. Jason Bourne the assassin is a myth. He does not assassinate anyone; he just takes credit of prolific assassinations, which real murderers happily let him. The point behind this myth is to insult Carlos the Jackal and force him into the open to confront Bourne.

* [[False-Flag Operation]], with flavor of [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The whole point of Jason Bourne, at least in the original Ludlum books. Jason Bourne the assassin is a myth. He does not assassinate anyone; he just takes credit of prolific assassinations, which real murderers happily let him. The point behind this myth is to insult Carlos the Jackal and force him into the open to confront Bourne.

* [[Flanderization]]: Eric van Lustbader, [http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Ludlums-TM-Bourne-Deception/dp/0446539821 YOU] [http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-bourne-deception-eric-van-lustbader/ FUCKING] [http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Ludlums-Bourne-Objective-Jason/dp/0446539813 BASTARD.]

* [[Gay Paree]]: Averted

* [[A God Am I]]: Carlos has a pretty massive ego

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Bourne to Marie. And a few others seem to be attracted to her somewhat as well.

* [[High Speed Missile Dodge]]: In a ''Chinook'', no less.

* [[High-Speed Missile Dodge]]: In a ''Chinook'', no less.

* [[Hong Kong]]: The setting of the second novel.

* [[Informed Attribute]]: The Old Man, the DCI in the new series. Everyone says he's great, [[The Chessmaster]], The [[Magnificent Bastard]], [[A Father to His Men]]. And yet he [[Jerkass|orders his DDCI to sever Bourne after Bourne just rescued the DDCI]], [[Idiot Ball|fails to notice all terrorist schemes in both books of his appearance]], and [[Complete Monster|orders assassination on Bourne just because he hates Bourne]].

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** {{spoiler|the truth of Sarah ibn Ashef's murder}} in Betrayal. At that climax of the book, CIA is under complete control of {{spoiler|Karim, an Islamist supremacist who poses as CIA's Deputy Director. He breaks his cool and calm when Bourne reveals that truth}}.

* [[Swiss Bank Account]]: In ''The Bourne Identity'', the only clue he has to his identity in the beginning is the details of a Swiss numbered bank account.

* [[The Great Politics Mess Up]]: Not only has the real Carlos the Jackal been captured, but he's no longer regarded as the [[Big Bad]] terrorist mastermind of popular myth.

* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: Not only has the real Carlos the Jackal been captured, but he's no longer regarded as the [[Big Bad]] terrorist mastermind of popular myth.

* [[The Vietnam War]]: [[Backstory]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: At the climax of Betrayal. {{spoiler|Confronting Karim,}} Bourne {{spoiler|reveals the truth of the murder of his sister, which causes the terrorist lunge up to him recklessly.}}