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The stories revolve around Jason Bourne, who is a secret agent for an agency known only as Medusa. Stories of Jason Bourne typically involve his combat active missions and spy operations, while often dipping into his troubled backstory that contains terror and many misfortunes.

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However, his entire family was killed in a freak plane crash that left him with nothing or no one. This was what motivated him to join Medusa, an elite Special Forces unit that was covert in its operations and looking for extremely skilled and talented units to train for their missions. He was trained there and known only by his Medusa titled code name, Delta One.

Jason Bourne is not even his real name, but simply one of the many aliases that he uses an an operative under the directives of Medusa. His real name is David Webb, but through the many stories in which he adventures, he his most frequently referred to as Jason Bourne so the alias has become synonymous with the man behind it.

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Jason Bourne first became a part of Medusa thanks to his good friend Alexander Conklin, who was a CIA operative at the time and had connections within the Medusa operations. Jason Bourne, or Delta One as he is called within the operations at Medusa, has a long and complex storyline involving his time there and the many atrocities that he both witnesses and is forced to commit for the good of his country.

Most of what Medusa does are assassinations of high ranking members of the Viet Cong, and through the many stories of Jason Bourne, more is learned about his involvement. The first three books that detail the life and times of Jason Bourne have all been made into films in recent years. These three books were all written by Robert Ludlum and are very frequently referred to as The Bourne Trilogy.

This author is Eric Van Lustbader, who has subsequently written another seven books about Jason Bourne — over twice as many books as Robert Ludlum ever wrote about him. Identity — in the film version of this it is called The Bourne Identity, but the original novel is simply called Identity. The story starts with Jason Bourne finding himself in the Mediterranean Sea, caught by Italian fisherman.

He regains consciousness and is confused about his whereabouts as well as his identity.