Like most people, I love the Bourne films, even the one without Matt Damon.
Click PLAY or watch a trailer for the first on YouTube. (2002)
I finally got around to reading the first — The Bourne Identity, a 1980 spy fiction thriller. Not good. I found the pacing WAY TOO SLOW. Every conversation far too dramatic.
I gave up around half way through.
Robert Ludlum died in 2001. But the Bourne books / films continued without him. Eric Van Lustbader now writes the sequels.