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Critical Essay by Martin Walker
Ludlum's new master conspiracy [in The Bourne Identity] is the terror network built by Carlos the assassin. Some nice tradecraft around using a Paris couturier as a communications HQ, and a credible background of the CIA's Phoenix assassination programme in Vietnam, but at the centre of the plot is a cunningly-manipulated American counter-assassin, who labours through the book with amnesia. He can't remember who he is, and we are never persuaded to care. (p. 973)
(read more)Martin Walker, "SAS, SIS, SOS," in New Statesman (© 1980 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. 99, No. 2571, June 27, 1980, pp. 972-73.∗
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