Jason Bourne - Who is he?
Jason Bourne’s real name (according to the story developed by Robert Ludlum) is David Webb, a career Marine Captain in the Foreign Service Department and a specialist in Far Eastern affairs.
Jason Bourne is featured in the Bourne Trilogy
The Bourne Identity, published in 1980,
The Bourne Supremacy, published in 1986, and
The Bourne Ultimatum, published in 1990.
The author is Robert Ludlum, born 25th May 1927 and died on 12th March 2001. These three novels have been turned into three movies featuring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne.
Before the events in The Bourne Identity, David Webb (alias Jason Bourne) had a Thai wife named Dao and two children named Joshua and Alyssa and they were living in Phnom Penh.
Webb’s wife and two children were inadvertently killed during the Vietnamese War, when a fighter plane strayed into Cambodia and dropped bombs near the Mekong River.
However, unknown to Bourne, Joshua survived.
Due to Cambodia’s neutrality in the war, every nation disclaimed the plane, and, therefore, no one took responsibility for the incident. Infuriated by both the utter injustice and randomness of his loss, Webb went to Saigon to be enlisted into the top elite Secret Special Force unit called Medusa, under the careful guidance of friend and officer Alexander Conklin.
Medusa was created to infiltrate northern Vietnam and to assassinate members of the Viet Cong and its collaborators. Its members were criminals and its leader, a man called Delta, who ran Medusa with an iron fist, became well known for his ruthlessness, his disregard for orders, and his disturbing success rate on his missions, resulting in the kidnapping of Webb’s brother, Army Lieutenant Gordon Webb, during his tour of duty in Saigon.
And so the story goes.
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