Meanwhile, Marie escapes with dubious ease from her US captors, becoming a Hong Kong fugitive with help from a Canadian diplomat (''Christ in Calgary, I don't need this!''). So, for the next 500 repetitious pages, Webb trails the psycho-killer from Hong Kong to Macao to Peking, sprinkling cash and blood and exclamation points as he gets Bourne-ier and Bourne-ier (''Good God!.Good Lord!.Oh, Christ!''). And since Webb won't do any of this willingly, the spymasters (in disguise, of course) kidnap Webb's beloved wife Marie to Hong Kong, threatening to kill her unless Webb captures the fake Bourne. the Jackal) in The Bourne Identity? No, it isn't! It's a fake Jason Bourne, a mercenary psycho employed by the evil Sheng, a Peking minister-of-state with secret right-wing takeover plans-plans that will lead to Armageddon in the Far East!! What can the US spymasters do to foil these vile schemes? Well, ruthless weirdos that they are, they decide to use the real Bourne, poor old David Webb (happily retired), to hunt down the fake Bourne and Sheng himself. But is this the real ''Jason Bourne,'' amnesiac US commando David Webb (a.k.a Delta), who (mostly against his will) posed as a super-assassin in order to trap the true-life assassin Carlos (a.k.a. The assassin has come back to Asia! Jason Bourne! He's come back!'' So it seems-when that legendary killer Jason Bourne apparently hits Hong Kong, killing (among others) the visiting Vice-Premier of China.

The bourne supremacy by robert ludlum