I'm not surprised that this is even more convoluted than "Identity." Still with the overly-repeated phrases, the conspiracy behind-every-blade-of-grass theories, the two-dimensional characters and an overly sentimental view of romance and love. It's all right for a trashy spy novel, if you're in the mood for that sort of thing. ( )

I found this very heavy going. It didn't have the same pace as the Bourne Identity. Having said that the DVD is brilliant ( )

Not as good as The Bourne Identity, but still an enjoyable thriller and romp through the Orient. Increasingly silly at the end, I started to skim read, but it all resolved itself satisfactorily. ( )

This book was a good follow-up to the first one, The Bourne Identity. In this book, David Webb aka Jason Bourne aka Cain aka Delta returns to the Far East when Marie is kidnapped, and he is drawn in to a Chinese plot with world-shaking consequences. The book starts with David and Marie living happily in Maine. They're visited by a government official, then Marie disappears. David seeks out his old boss, Conklin, from the Treadstone 71 days, and elicits his help in tracking Marie to Hong Kong and a Taipan who isn't what he appears to be.

There is quite a lot of romanized Mandarin, and some Cantonese. If you're familiar with the Chinese language (like me) you'll get a little bit more out of this book, but don't worry if you don't--the most important bits are translated for you. Ludlum certainly had decent resources to handle such a language, there weren't many errors in it.

This book is nothing whatsoever like the movie of the same name. In fact, the title is probably the only thing they have in common. It was a terrible movie, filmed by an epileptic cameraman with Parkinson's disease. ( )

I read this as a younger kid (I loved reading the same books my dad did); I remember enjoying the book but definitely need to go back and read it again. ( )