The Jackal thinks that Prefontaine was going to foil his murder plan, and bribes a nurse on the island to kill him. At the same time, a former judge, Brendan P.

Jacques and her two children, and spray paint 'Jason Bourne, brother of the Jackal' on the wall. A 'War Hero' arrives, who is actually an 'Old Man of Paris,' is supposed to assassinate Marie St. Jacques Family faces a number of complications. Jacques, in the Caribbean for protection while Webb himself works with old friend and CIA agent Alexander Conklin, and to a limited degree, the CIA, to hunt down and kill the Jackal first. Webb sends his wife and children to live with her brother, John St. Carlos the Jackal uses a diverse collective of aged men devoted to his handiwork known as 'The Old Men of Paris.' The old men, who are mostly criminals, work for the Jackal in return for their family's comfort. As the Jackal enters old age and his infamy fades, he decides that he will do two things before he dies: kill Webb/Bourne, and destroy the KGB facility of Novgorod, where the Jackal was trained and was turned away for being a maniac. As in the 2004 film, The Bourne Supremacy, the film version of The Bourne Ultimatum has a completely different plot from the novel.Īfter a message in the form of a murder at a carnival indicates his old enemy, Carlos the Jackal, has resurfaced, David Webb, aka Jason Bourne, works to find him. Eric Van Lustbader wrote a sequel titled The Bourne Legacy fourteen years later.Ī film of the same name starring Matt Damon was released in 2007. First published in 1990, it was the last Bourne novel to be written by Ludlum himself.

The Bourne Ultimatum is the third Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum and a sequel to The Bourne Supremacy (1986).

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