Helpful Score: 2
"The Bourne Supremacy" is one of the rare cases in which the movie is better than the book. Paul Greengrass's film is much more interesting, well developed and made than the book. The script started near the book, but it is developed in another way, creating a more believable and interesting character with a electrifying plot -- something missed in the book.
Helpful Score: 1
Great Reading , Alot more decriptive and entertaining than the movie!
a real spy thriller and tells the true story of Bourne and is what the movie should have been, if you haven't read it you can't beat the impact of the this novel even though it deals with the Cold War era many topics relevant to the here and now.
This is one of Robert Ludlum's best thrillers. It's a fast-paced, action-packed thriller.
A fun, easy read. Since this is the third book in the series, I would think that you would know what to expect - international intrigue and violence. Entertaining.
Wow.. nothing at all like the movie. This book had a few spots where one particular part seemed to drag on and on but over all a great book. I can't wait to read the third.
Excellent!!! Pure LUDLUM.
Warning to Movie Watchers: This is an excellent book full of action but the movie strayed greatly from the book. I recommend that you do not expect this to 'be like the movie'
From Publishers Weekly
Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this. A Peking leader of seemingly irreproachable reputation, secretly a Kuomintang fanatic, has masterminded a plot to take over Hong Kong via political assassination, the result of which would be civil war in China and possibly global disaster. His principal agent is an assassin-for-hire masquerading as the legendary "Jason Bourne," a one-time secret U.S. agent now, under his real name David Webb, struggling with the aid of a psychiatrist and his loving wife Marie to recover from amnesia. Only one man can destroy the conspiracy: Webb, who must be persuaded to re-assume his Bourne identity, track down the impostor and through him lay a trap for the vile Shengthe "persuasion" to be by way of his abducted wife. The action jolts from the back alleys of Hong Kong and Kowloon to a secret government complex in the Colorado mountains to the seats of power in Peking and even the interior of Mao's tomb. Every chapter ends with a cliff-hanger; the story brims with assassination, torture, hand-to-hand combat, sudden surprise and intrigue within intrigue. It's a sure-fire bestseller.
Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this. A Peking leader of seemingly irreproachable reputation, secretly a Kuomintang fanatic, has masterminded a plot to take over Hong Kong via political assassination, the result of which would be civil war in China and possibly global disaster. His principal agent is an assassin-for-hire masquerading as the legendary "Jason Bourne," a one-time secret U.S. agent now, under his real name David Webb, struggling with the aid of a psychiatrist and his loving wife Marie to recover from amnesia. Only one man can destroy the conspiracy: Webb, who must be persuaded to re-assume his Bourne identity, track down the impostor and through him lay a trap for the vile Shengthe "persuasion" to be by way of his abducted wife. The action jolts from the back alleys of Hong Kong and Kowloon to a secret government complex in the Colorado mountains to the seats of power in Peking and even the interior of Mao's tomb. Every chapter ends with a cliff-hanger; the story brims with assassination, torture, hand-to-hand combat, sudden surprise and intrigue within intrigue. It's a sure-fire bestseller.
Jason Bourne is back!
