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Robert Ludlum  THE BOURNE IDENTITY

ROBERT

LUDLUM

THE UNSURPASSED MASTER

OF THE SUPERTHRILLER

AND ON SALE

IN BANTAM HARDCOVER

IN MAY 1993

THE SCORPIO

ILLUSION

Robert Ludlum  THE BOURNE IDENTITY

THE AMNESIAC REMEMBERS

“You appear to be a mass of contradictions,” Dr. Washburn said. “There’s a subsurface violence

almost always in control, but very much alive. There’s also a pensiveness that seems painful for you,

yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.”

“You’re provoking it now,” said the man.

“And we’ll continue to do so, as long as there’s progress.”

“I wasn’t aware any progress had been made.”

“Not in terms of an identity or an occupation. But we are finding out what’s most comfortable

for you, what you deal with best. It’s a little frightening.”

“In what way?”

“Let me give you an example.” The doctor put the clipboard down and got out of the chair. He

walked to a primitive cupboard against the wall, opened a drawer, and took out a large automatic

handgun. The man with no memory tensed in his chair; Washburn was aware of the reaction. “I’ve

never used this, not sure I’d know how to, but I do live on the waterfront.” He smiled, then

suddenly, without warning, threw it to the man. The weapon was caught in midair, the catch clean,

swift, and confident. Break it down; I believe that’s the phrase.”

“What?”

“Break it down. Now.”

The man looked at the gun. And then, in silence, his hands and fingers moved expertly over the

weapon. In less than thirty seconds it was completely dismantled.

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Bantam Books by Robert Ludlum

Ask your bookseller for the books you have missed

THE AQUITAINE PROGRESSION

THE BOURNE IDENTITY

THE BOURNE SUPREMACY

THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM

THE CHANCELLOR MANUSCRIPT

THE GEMINI CONTENDERS

THE HOLCROFT COVENANT

THE ICARUS AGENDA

THE MATARESE CIRCLE

THE MATLOCK PAPER

THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND

THE PARSIFAL MOSAIC

THE RHINEMANN EXCHANGE

THE ROAD TO GANDOLFO

THE ROAD TO OMAHA

THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE

TREVAYNE

Robert Ludlum  THE BOURNE IDENTITY

THE

BOURNE

IDENTITY

ROBERT LUDLUM

BANTAM BOOKS

NEW YORK y TORONTO y SYDNEY y AUKLAND

Robert Ludlum  THE BOURNE IDENTITY

This edition contains the complete text

of the original hardcover edition.

NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.

THE BOURNE IDENTITY

A Bantam Book / published by

arrangement with the author

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Marek Edition published March 1980

A Selection of Literary Guild, April 1980, and

a Doubleday Book Club Selection, June 1980

Serialized in Book Digest, Spring 1980

Bantam edition / March 1981

Acknowledgment and thanks are made for permission to reprint articles

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publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”

ISBN 0-553-26011-1

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Robert Ludlum  THE BOURNE IDENTITY

For Glynis

A very special light we all adore.

With our love and deep respect.

Robert Ludlum  THE BOURNE IDENTITY

PREFACE

The New York Times

Friday, July 11, 1975

FRONT PAGE

DIPLOMATS SAID TO BE LINKED

WITH FUGITIVE TERRORIST

KNOWN AS CARLOS

PARIS, July 10—France expelled three high-ranking Cuban diplomats today in connection

with the worldwide search for a man called Carlos, who is believed to be an important link in

an international terrorist network.

The suspect, whose real name is thought to be Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is being sought in

the killing of two French counterintelligence agents and a Lebanese informer at a Latin

Quarter apartment on June 27.

The three killings have led the police here and in Britain to what they feel is the trail of a

major network of international terrorist agents. In the search for Carlos after the killings,

French and British policemen discovered large arms caches that linked Carlos to major

terrorism in West Germany and led them to suspect a connection between many terrorist

acts throughout Europe.

Reported Seen in London

Since then Carlos has been reported seen in London and in Beirut, Lebanon. …

Associated Press

Monday, July 7, 1975

syndicated dispatch

A DRAGNET FOR ASSASSIN

LONDON (AP)—Guns and girls, grenades and good suits, a fat billfold, airline tickets to

romantic places and nice apartments in a half dozen world capitals. This is the portrait

emerging of a jet age assassin being sought in an international manhunt.

The hunt began when the man answered his doorbell in Paris and shot dead two French

intelligence agents and a Lebanese informer. It has put four women into custody in two

capitals, accused of offenses in his wake. The assassin himself has vanished—perhaps in

Lebanon, the French police believe.

In the past few days in London, those acquainted with him have described him to

reporters as good looking, courteous, well educated, wealthy and fashionably dressed.

But his associates are men and women who have been called the most dangerous in the

world. He is said to be linked with the Japanese Red Army, the Organization for the Armed

Arab Struggle, the West German Baader-Meinhof gang, the Quebec Liberation Front, the

Turkish Popular Liberation Front, separatists in France and Spain, and the Provisional wing

of the Irish Republican Army.

When the assassin traveled—to Paris, to the Hague, to West Berlin—bombs went off;

guns cracked and there were kidnappings.

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A breakthrough occurred in Paris when a Lebanese terrorist broke under questioning and

led two intelligence men to the assassin’s door in Paris on June 27. He shot all three to death

and escaped. Police found his guns and notebooks containing “death lists” of prominent

people.

Yesterday the London Observer said police were hunting for the son of a Venezuelan

Communist lawyer for questioning in the triple slaying. Scotland Yard said, “We are not

denying the report,” but added there was no charge against him and he was wanted only for

questioning.

The Observer identified the hunted man as Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, of Caracas. It said his

name was on one of the four passports found by French police when they raided the Paris

apartment where the slayings took place.

The newspaper said Ilich was named after Vladimir Ilych Lenin, founder of the Soviet

state, and was educated in Moscow and speaks fluent Russian.

In Caracas, a spokesman for the Venezuelan Communist Party said Ilich is the son of a

70-year-old Marxist lawyer living 450 miles west of Caracas, but “neither father nor son

belong to our party.”

He told reporters he did not know where Ilich was now.

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BOOK I

The trawler plunged into the angry swells of the dark, furious sea like an awkward animal trying

desperately to break out of an impenetrable swamp. The waves rose to goliathan heights, crashing

into the hull with the power of raw tonnage; the white sprays caught in the night sky cascaded

downward over the deck under the force of the night wind. Everywhere there were the sounds of

inanimate pain, wood straining against wood, ropes twisting, stretched to the breaking point. The

animal was dying.

Two abrupt explosions pierced the sounds of the sea and the wind and the vessel’s pain. They

came from the dimly lit cabin that rose and fell with its host body. A man lunged out of the door

grasping the railing with one hand, holding his stomach with the other.

A second man followed, the pursuit cautious, his intent violent. He stood bracing himself in the

cabin door; he raised a gun and fired again. And again.

The man at the railing whipped both his hands up to his head, arching backward under the

impact of the fourth bullet. The trawler’s bow dipped suddenly into the valley of two giant waves,

lifting the wounded man off his feet; he twisted to his left unable to take his hands away from his

head. The boat surged upward, bow and midships more out of the water than in it, sweeping the

figure in the doorway back into the cabin, a fifth gunshot fired wildly. The wounded man screamed,

his hands now lashing out at anything he could grasp, his eyes blinded by blood and the unceasing

spray of the sea. There was nothing he could grab, so he grabbed at nothing; his legs buckled as his

body lurched forward. The boat rolled violently leeward and the man whose skull was ripped open

plunged over the side into the madness of the darkness below.

He felt rushing cold water envelop him, swallowing him, sucking him under, and twisting him in

circles, then propelling him up to the surface—only to gasp a single breath of air. A gasp and he was

under again.

And there was heat, a strange moist heat at his temple that seared through the freezing water that

kept swallowing him, a fire where no fire should burn. There was ice, too; an icelike throbbing in his

stomach and his legs and his chest, oddly warmed by the cold sea around him. He felt these things,

acknowledging his own panic as he felt them. He could see his own body turning and twisting, arms

and feet working frantically against the pressures of the whirlpool. He could feel, think, see, perceive

panic and struggle—yet strangely there was peace. It was the calm of the observer, the uninvolved

observer, separated from the events, knowing of them but not essentially involved.

Then another form of panic spread through him, surging through the heat and the ice and the

uninvolved recognition. He could not submit to peace! Not yet! It would happen any second now;

he was not sure what it was, but it would happen. He had to be there!

He kicked furiously, clawing at the heavy walls of water above, his chest burning. He broke

surface, thrashing to stay on top of the black swells. Climb up! Climb up!

A monstrous rolling wave accommodated; he was on the crest, surrounded by pockets of foam

and darkness. Nothing. Turn! Turn!

It happened. The explosion was massive; he could hear it through the clashing waters and the

wind, the sight and the sound somehow his doorway to peace. The sky lit up like a fiery diadem and

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within that crown of fire, objects of all shapes and sizes were blown through the light into the outer

shadows.

He had won. Whatever it was, he had won.

Suddenly he was plummeting downward again, into an abyss again. He could feel the rushing

waters crash over his shoulders, cooling the white-hot heat at his temple, warming the ice-cold

incisions in his stomach and his legs and. …

His chest. His chest was in agony! He had been struck—the blow crushing, the impact sudden

and intolerable. It happened again! Let me alone. Give me peace.

And again!

And he clawed again, and kicked again … until he felt it. A thick, oily object that moved only

with the movements of the sea. He could not tell what it was, but it was there and he could feel it,

hold it.

Hold it! It will ride you to peace. To the silence of darkness … and peace.

The rays of the early sun broke through the mists of the eastern sky, lending glitter to the calm

waters of the Mediterranean. The skipper of the small fishing boat, his eyes bloodshot, his hands

marked with rope burns, sat on the stern gunnel smoking a Gauloise, grateful for the sight of the

smooth sea. He glanced over at the open wheelhouse; his younger brother was easing the throttle

forward to make better time, the single other crewman checking a net several feet away. They were

laughing at something and that was good; there had been nothing to laugh about last night. Where

had the storm come from? The weather reports from Marseilles had indicated nothing; if they had

he would have stayed in the shelter of the coastline. He wanted to reach the fishing grounds eighty

kilometers south of La Seyne-sur-Mer by daybreak, but not at the expense of costly repairs, and

what repairs were not costly these days?

Or at the expense of his life, and there were moments last night when that was a distinct

consideration.

“Tu es fatigué, hein, mon frère?” his brother shouted, grinning at him. “Va te coucher maintenant. Laisse-

moi faire.”

“D’accord,” the brother answered, throwing his cigarette over the side and sliding down to the

deck on top of a net “A little sleep won’t hurt.”

It was good to have a brother at the wheel. A member of the family should always be the pilot on

a family boat; the eyes were sharper. Even a brother who spoke with the smooth tongue of a literate

man as opposed to his own coarse words. Crazy! One year at the university and his brother wished

to start a compagnie. With a single boat that had seen better days many years ago. Crazy. What good

did his books do last night? When his compagnie was about to capsize.

He closed his eyes, letting his hands soak in the rolling water on the deck. The salt of the sea

would be good for the rope burns. Burns received while lashing equipment that did not care to stay

put in the storm.

“Look! Over there!”

It was his brother; apparently sleep was to be denied by sharp family eyes.

“What is it?” he yelled.

“Port bow! There’s a man in the water! He’s holding on to something! A piece of debris, a plank

of some sort.”

The skipper took the wheel, angling the boat to the right of the figure in the water, cutting the

engines to reduce the wake. The man looked as though the slightest motion would send him sliding

off the fragment of wood he clung to; his hands were white, gripped around the edge like claws, but

the rest of his body was limp—as limp as a man fully drowned, passed from this world.

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