Bourne are a series of three novels by Robert Ludlum based on the fictional spy Jason Bourne. The series has since been further extended by Eric Van Lustbader after the death of Robert Ludlum. When Eric Van Lustbader decided to stop writing the Bourne novels during the writing of The Bourne Nemesis, Brian Freeman was approached by the Ludlum estate to continue the stories of Jason Bourne.
The Bourne Books in Order
Novels by Ludlum
1. The Bourne Identity (1980)
The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller by Robert Ludlum that tells the story of Jason Bourne, a man with remarkable survival abilities who has retrograde amnesia, and must seek to discover his true identity. In the process, he must also determine why several shadowy groups, a professional assassin, and the CIA want him dead. It is the first novel of the original Bourne Trilogy, which also includes The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum.
Peter Cannon of Publishers Weekly named The Bourne Identity among the best spy novels of all time, after John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
The novel was the basis for the scripts of the 1988 television movie of the same name starring Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith, and the 2002 film of the same name, starring Matt Damon, Franka Potente, and Chris Cooper.
2. The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
The Bourne Supremacy is the second Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum, first published in 1986. It is the sequel to Ludlum’s bestseller The Bourne Identity (1980) and precedes Ludlum’s final Bourne novel, The Bourne Ultimatum (1990).
The Bourne Supremacy gave its name to the second Bourne film, The Bourne Supremacy, starring Matt Damon in 2004; however, the movie adaptation has a completely different plot from the novel.
3. The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
The Bourne Ultimatum is the third Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum and a sequel to The Bourne Supremacy (1986). First published in 1990, it was the last Bourne novel to be written by Ludlum himself. Eric Van Lustbader wrote a sequel titled The Bourne Legacy fourteen years later.
A film of the same name starring Matt Damon was released in 2007. As in the 2004 film, The Bourne Supremacy, the film version of The Bourne Ultimatum has a completely different plot from the novel.
Novels by Eric Van Lustbader
4. The Bourne Legacy (2004)
The Bourne Legacy is a 2004 spy fiction thriller written by Eric Van Lustbader. It is the fourth novel in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum and the first to be written by Lustbader. He has also written other novels in the series, The Bourne Betrayal, The Bourne Sanction, The Bourne Deception, The Bourne Objective, The Bourne Dominion, The Bourne Imperative, The Bourne Retribution, The Bourne Ascendancy, The Bourne Enigma, The Bourne Initiative and The Bourne Nemesis.
5. The Bourne Betrayal (2007)
The Bourne Betrayal is the title for the novel by Eric Van Lustbader and the fifth novel in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum. It was published in June 2007. It is Lustbader’s second Bourne novel, following The Bourne Legacy that was published in 2004. Lustbader has written a sequel to The Bourne Betrayal titled The Bourne Sanction.
6. The Bourne Sanction (2008)
The Bourne Sanction is the title of Eric Van Lustbader’s third Jason Bourne novel, and the sixth novel in the Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum. It was released on July 29, 2008, following Lustbader’s The Bourne Betrayal that was published in 2007.
7. The Bourne Deception (2009)
The Bourne Deception is a novel by Eric Van Lustbader, the seventh in the Jason Bourne series created by Robert Ludlum. It was released on June 9, 2009. It is Lustbader’s fourth Bourne novel, following The Bourne Sanction, which was published in 2008.
8. The Bourne Objective (2010)
The Bourne Objective is the eighth novel in the Bourne series and fifth by Eric Van Lustbader. The book was released on June 1, 2010, as a sequel to The Bourne Deception. This novel continues very shortly after the end of Deception, with Bourne in a race against his nemesis, Leonid Arkadin, to unlock the potential mystery of King Solomon’s Gold, while fighting Russian mercenaries, assassins sent by the U.S. government, and confronting a mysterious organization that threatens to take over and run the world.
9. The Bourne Dominion (2011)
The Bourne Dominion is the ninth novel in the Bourne series and sixth by Eric Van Lustbader. The book was released on June 19, 2011, as a sequel to The Bourne Objective.
10. The Bourne Imperative (2012)
The Bourne Imperative is the tenth novel in the Bourne series and seventh by Eric Van Lustbader. The book was released on June 5, 2012, as a sequel to The Bourne Dominion.
11. The Bourne Retribution (2013)
The Bourne Retribution is the eleventh novel in the Bourne series and eighth by Eric Van Lustbader. The book was released on December 3, 2013, as a sequel to The Bourne Imperative. It was followed up with The Bourne Ascendancy.
12. The Bourne Ascendancy (2014)
The Bourne Ascendancy is the twelfth novel in the Bourne series and ninth by Eric Van Lustbader. It was released on May 22, 2014, as a sequel to The Bourne Retribution and was followed by The Bourne Enigma.
13. The Bourne Enigma (2016)
The Bourne Enigma is the thirteenth novel in the Bourne series and tenth by Eric Van Lustbader. The book was released on June 21, 2016, as a sequel to The Bourne Ascendancy.
14. The Bourne Initiative (2017)
The Bourne Initiative is the fourteenth novel in the Bourne series and eleventh by Eric Van Lustbader. The book was released on June 13, 2017, as a sequel to The Bourne Enigma.
Novels by Brian Freeman
15. The Bourne Evolution (2020)
Jason Bourne has gone rogue, leaving Treadstone behind and going on a new mission to infiltrate and expose an extremist group, called Medusa. And while more enemies begin to hunt down Bourne while he investigates, it’s a race against time to discover who led him into this trap and what their next move is going to be.
16. The Bourne Treachery (2021)
The world’s most ruthlessly efficient assassin, Jason Bourne, has carved a bloody swathe through all his opponents, but now he’s facing the one force he can’t defeat–his own past–in the latest thrilling entry in Robert Ludlum’s New York Times bestselling series.
Three years ago, Jason Bourne embarked on a mission in Estonia with his partner and lover, a fiery UK-based Treadstone agent code-named Nova. Their job was to rescue a Russian scientist and activist, the leader of an anti-Putin protest movement, who’d recently been smuggled out of St. Petersburg in the midst of an FSB manhunt.
They failed.
Now, three years later, everything has changed for Bourne. Nova is gone, killed in a mass shooting in Las Vegas. Bourne is a lone operative working in the shadows for Treadstone. He’s ready for a new mission when his handler brings him shocking news.
The Estonian mission was a set-up. Their target had not been killed. She is still in hiding in Russia and the Russian state intelligence agency is desperately seeking her. Bourne must find her first, but his race to correct the errors of the past will lead him to one inevitable conclusion: Some secrets should stay buried.
17. The Bourne Sacrifice (2022)
Jason Bourne and a former ally join forces to take down a murderous tech giant in the latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum’s New York Times bestselling series.
Abby Laurent is an investigative reporter. The last time she worked with Jason Bourne she almost lost her life, but now she’s deep into the biggest story of her career. If she can prove her case, she’ll rock governments from DC to Europe. Obviously with that much on the line there are a lot of people who are willing to take her off the board. She has only one option–find Bourne and convince him to help her.
18. The Bourne Defiance (2023)
Someone’s killing Treadstone agents and Jason Bourne may be next on the list in this latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Around the world, Treadstone agents are being hunted down and murdered. Someone high up in the U.S. government is erasing all evidence of a shocking mission from Jason Bourne’s past known as Defiance–including Bourne himself. Staying one step ahead of a team of killers, Bourne follows a global trail that leads him to one of the government’s darkest secrets. But exposing the truth about the Defiance mission will also bring Bourne face-to-face with his archenemy, the assassin known as Lennon, for a final deadly confrontation.
How many Bourne books are there?
There are total 18 books in Bourne. Out of which first 3 novels are written by Ludlum. After that Eric Van Lustbader continue Bourne are a series by writing 11 books. Then after Brian Freeman write 4 books in the series.
The Bourne Books in Order of release date
1. The Bourne Identity (1980)
2. The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
3. The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
4. The Bourne Legacy (2004)
5. The Bourne Betrayal (2007)
6. The Bourne Sanction (2008)
7. The Bourne Deception (2009)
8. The Bourne Objective (2010)
9. The Bourne Dominion (2011)
10. The Bourne Imperative (2012)
11. The Bourne Retribution (2013)
12. The Bourne Ascendancy (2014)
13. The Bourne Enigma (2016)
14. The Bourne Initiative (2017)
15. The Bourne Evolution (2020)
16. The Bourne Treachery (2021)
17. The Bourne Sacrifice (2022)
18. The Bourne Defiance (2023)
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