The Bourne Ultimatum. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 1990 book
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The Bourne Ultimatum
Robert Ludlum, 1990
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Paul Greengrass, 2007

Following his pursuit by Kirill, Jason Bourne eludes Moscow police while wounded through a train station and deals with more flashbacks of when he first joined Operation Treadstone. Meanwhile, in Turin, journalist Simon Ross of The Guardian meets an informant to learn about Bourne and Operation Blackbriar, the program succeeding Treadstone.


The Bourne Identity. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the 1980 book
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The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum, 1980
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Doug Liman, 2002

In the Mediterranean Sea, fishermen rescue an American adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. The skipper finds a laser projector under the man’s hip that gives the number of a safe deposit box in Zürich.


The Bourne Supremacy. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 1986 book
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The Bourne Supremacy
Robert Ludlum, 1986
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Paul Greengrass, 2004

Two years after their disappearance, Jason Bourne and Marie Kreutz are in Goa, India. Gretkov directs Kirill to Goa to kill Bourne; however, Bourne spots him at the market and on the beach and flees with Marie in a vehicle.


Treadstone. Poster of the 2019 TV series and cover of the 1980 book, The Bourne Identity
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The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum, 1980
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Tim Kring, 2019

Treadstone explores the origin story and present-day actions of a fictional CIA black-ops program known as Operation Treadstone — a covert program that uses a behavior-modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly-superhuman assassins. The series follows sleeper agents across the globe as they are mysteriously’awakened’ to resume their deadly missions.


The Bourne Identity. Poster of the 1988 TV series and cover of the 1980 book
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The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum, 1980
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Roger Young, 1988

An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he can’t remember a thing. He does not know his name, he does not know where his flashback memories come from, and he does not know why the access code for an anonymous Swiss bank account is implanted in his thigh. As he seeks his own identity, things quickly become dangerous.


Jason Bourne. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 1980 book, The Bourne Identity
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The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum, 1980
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Paul Greengrass, 2016

Twelve years after he exposed Operation Blackbriar and disappeared, Jason Bourne has finally recovered from his amnesia, isolating himself from the world and making a living by taking part in savage, bareknuckle fighting bouts in Greece. In Reykjavík, Nicky Parsons, who has been collaborating with a hacktivist group led by Christian Dassault, hacks into the CIA’s mainframe computer server to expose its black ops programs.


The Rhinemann Exchange. Poster of the 1977 TV series and cover of the 1974 book
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The Rhinemann Exchange
Robert Ludlum, 1974
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Burt Kennedy, 1977

David Spaulding is the most feared and efficient Allied agent in wartime Europe. Expert, deadly and professional, he is also high on the Gestapo’s ‘most wanted’ list. Now Spaulding has been selected by the Allied Command to transact an undercover deal in Argentina involving top secret Nazi scientific plans. The dealer is Erich Rhinemann, an exiled German Jew who is awaiting the end of the war with his millions in an impenetrable retreat near Buenos Aires.


The Osterman Weekend. Poster of the 1983 movie and cover of the 1972 book
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The Osterman Weekend
Robert Ludlum, 1972
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Sam Peckinpah, 1983

CIA director Maxwell Danforth watches a recording of agent Laurence Fassett and his wife having sex. When Fassett goes into the bathroom to have a shower, two KGB assassins enter the bedroom and kill his wife. The CIA had in fact sanctioned her killing. Fassett, unaware of his employer’s involvement, was consumed by grief and rage. He hunted the assassins, eventually uncovering a Soviet spy network known as Omega.


Covert One: The Hades Factor. Poster of the 2006 TV series and cover of the 2000 book, The Hades Factor
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The Hades Factor
Robert Ludlum, Gayle Lynds, 2000
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Mick Jackson, 2006

While in a retrieve operation of a virus in Berlin, the Covert One agent Rachel Russell is double-crossed by two dirty agents; she kills them and escapes, trying to find a hiding place and someone to trust to protect the vials. Meanwhile, the former Covert One agent Dr. Jon Smith is also in Berlin with his beloved fiancée Sophie Amsden participating in a congress. When three persons die with bleeding, the doctors disclose a Hades virus outbreak, an extreme rare Ebola variant.


The Holcroft Covenant. Poster of the 1985 movie and cover of the 1978 book
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The Holcroft Covenant
Robert Ludlum, 1978
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John Frankenheimer, 1985

Noel Holcroft’s late father – who was a general in the Wehrmacht and once close to Adolf Hitler – left behind a fortune supposedly to make amends for his wrongdoings. But more than forty years later, Noel finds himself embroiled in a web of conspiracies involving the children of two of his father’s Nazi colleagues, a mysterious organisation supposedly devoted to ensuring the Nazis never again come to power, and a woman who may be Noel’s downfall or his only hope.


The Apocalypse Watch. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1995 book
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The Apocalypse Watch
Robert Ludlum, 1995
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Kevin Connor, 1997

In the Hausruck Hills in Austria, CIA agent Harry Latham attempts infiltrating a secret training airfield belonging to the Brüderschaft der Wacht, a Neo-nazi movement gradually building a renaissance of the Nazi ideology across Europe. However, he’s exposed and captured, and the Brotherhood’s chief surgeon, Dr. Gerhardt Kroeger, performs a microchip implant experiment on Harry in an attempt to make him a controllable double-agent.