The Bourne Identity

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Darren McGavin

He is a man with an unknown past and an uncertain future. A man dragged from the sea riddled with bullets, his face altered by plastic surgery—a man bearing the dubious identity of Jason Bourne. Now he is running for his life, the target of professional assassins, at the center of a maddening, deadly puzzle.

Who is Jason Bourne? To answer that question, he must find the secret buried deep in his own past. And the only one who can help him is a beautiful stranger—the woman who once would do anything to escape him. Plus, hear a preview of Ludlum's riveting thriller The Bourne Ultimatum.

©1987 Robert Ludlum and Bantam Audio Publishing (P)1987 Bantam Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House Inc.

Do Not Buy

The production of this book feels like a 1970’s movie. Odd music and timing with the narration. The reader is too low keyed for a book like this.

Out of date

This story line was probably ok 20 years ago but I don’t feel like it aged well.

Audio version extremely compressed.

Disappointed with content, the book is a bigger story than was told by the narrator.

Great book but too much background music

Great book and narration but the background music is far too loud to completely enjoy.

Horrible dramatic reading

The horrible dramatic reading destroys any value that the text itself might have.

Movie was better

Not what I expected. Movie had more story in my opinion. I was expecting to have more details.

I thought it was longer

For some reason I ended up with couple hour clif note version. What's up with the music.

Horrible soundtrack

Story was short but fulfilling. Narrator had a good voice for it.... Soundtrack was HORRIBLE!!! Music was way too loud could barely hear the narrator at times. Could barely follow the story because of the loudness of the music. I hope none of the other Bourne books have music

Abridged identity

narration was fine, but this is an abridged version of the book, which I didn't initially realize. Not really worth the audible credit price, so if you want it, just buy it outright.

Not at all what I expected…Disappointed

The addition of music was terrible and it was hard to follow which character was speaking. I had to rewind a number of times to understand what was happening. Did not realize this was an abridged version. I would not have purchased if I had known