The Bourne Identity

"This is not a brilliantly written book, but the movies are fantastic and quite different really from the book. I picked this up at the airport on the way to France for a holiday with my parents when I was 16 and they say they didn’t see me for five days. I went down to the English language bookshop in Nice to buy the sequels. This guy is an assassin but a good guy, better than the men on the right side of the law. Well, Bourne is found in the sea and has lost his memory, but embedded in his hip are the details of a Swiss bank account. He goes to the Swiss bank and finds 15 passports in different names, and all these guns. It’s a journey of self-discovery in that he actually has to find out who he is. He is confronted with who he was and then who he is now as he comes out of amnesia."