Meet the Cast
Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne is lots and lots and lots of people. So many people he can't even keep them all straight. "He's stretched to the point where he may not even know who he is any longer," as one fellow c...
Marie St. Jacques
Marie St. Jacques is a high-powered economist with the Canadian government. She's beautiful, competent, and unlike Jason Bourne, she doesn't have amnesia, so she actually knows who she is. "I respe...
Carlos
Like Bourne, Carlos has a whole bunch of names. His birth name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, son of a Venezuelan Communist lawyer. And then, of course, he's Carlos the Jackal, the roughest, toughest as...
General Andres Villiers
Fathers and SonGeneral Villiers is a wounded older man who shows up toward the end of the novel. He is not to be confused with Geoffrey Washburn, the wounded older man who shows up at the beginning...
Minor Characters
Robert Ludlum specialized in spy novels where one character goes up against thousands of bad guys plus your maiden aunt and possibly a puppy or two. The Bourne Identity is typical in that there are...