The Bourne Identity

A fishing boat in the Mediterranean rescues a man with two bullet wounds in his back, but he can’t remember who he is. All he has is a bank-account number, implanted under his skin. From that single clue, he retraces his steps to Zurich and discovers a safe-deposit box filled with heaps of money, a gun, and several passports. Choosing the American passport, he gives himself a name: Jason Bourne.

Despite having no memory, Jason quickly finds that his body remembers everything else: fluent languages, combat skills, lightning reflexes. He’s no ordinary man, but a highly trained operative caught up in something bigger than he can piece together.

Desperate for answers, Bourne teams up with Marie Kreutz, a woman who becomes his unlikely ally after agreeing to help him escape danger and eventually drives him to Paris. Marie offers a human anchor in Bourne’s spiralling search for truth.

As he edges closer to the truth, Jason becomes a target. A top-secret CIA programme known as Treadstone seeks to eliminate him to hide what he knows. Soon, he’s being hunted by trained assassins who want him dead, and the deeper he digs, the more tangled the web becomes.

What begins as a quest for identity turns into a dangerous flight for survival. Every city, every alley, every passport holds a secret, and every step forward raises the stakes. The Bourne Identity captures the moment a man with no past becomes the only one who can unravel it, but only if he can stay alive long enough to find out.