The Bourne Ultimatum.

LUDLUM, Robert.

Item Number: 138848

New York: Random House, 1990.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2007 film starring Matt Damon. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Judy My very best wishes to you, Judy Robert Ludlum 6.4.’90.” Additionally signed opposite the front free endpaper by Academy award-winning actor Matt Damon. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket illustration by Russell Farrell.

At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed “Jason Bourne.” Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know what the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped never to do again—assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically omnipotent Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap—a trap from which only one of them will escape. It is the basis for the 2007 film directed by Paul Greengrass, with the screenplay written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi and starred Matt Damon.