暗殺者 新潮文庫

snmocha2006-05-10

暗殺者 (上) (下) 新潮文庫
ロバート・ラドラム (著), 山本 光伸

文庫: 440 p ; サイズ(cm): 15
出版社: 新潮社 ; ISBN: 4102204016 ; 上 巻 (1983/01)

Book Description
In this best-selling novel by Robert Ludlum, a man is shot, left for dead, later rescued from the sea. Surviving but with no memory, he is given a name: Jason Bourne. Physically and mentally agile, he retraces his past through a harrowing personal labyrinth. The discovery: He was a trained killer, and now in turn is being hunted by assassins.

"His characters are complex and credible, his sleight of plot as cunning as any terrorist conspiracy. It is a Bourne from which no traveler returns unsatisfied." (Time)

From the Publisher
Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium -- maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspirators -- led by Carlos, the world's most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him.

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少々古い感じはするが,映画「ボーンアイデンティティ」の原作本.映画も面白そうだが,この原作の方が話が複雑になっているようでじっくり読めば面白いかと.単純なスパイものではなくて,記憶を失った主人公が自分が誰なのか,アイデンティティを求めてさまようさまがうまく描かれていて印象的です.これを映画にするには....いっそアクションに集中するか,よほど話を整理して単純にしないと難しいかと.映画も見てみよう.

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