Bourne Supremacy Book Report

Over the past few weeks I have been reading The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum. In this journal I will be predicting, questioning, and visualizing. Since my last journal a few jaw-dropping events have happened in a short amount of time. Jason saved a small group of Chinese and British diplomats from assassination seconds before a bomb would have killed them. Jason was able to save them by posing as agent from the Israeli Mossad, which allowed him to get close enough to realize the assassin’s plan.
First, I will be predicting. I predict that Jason will have to continue listening to and working with D’Anjou to try and get Marie back safely. I predict this because Jason has had to work together with other people throughout the story, and I

do not believe there is a way he could get to Marie on his own. D’Anjou and Jason also seem like compatible partners as they have worked together in the past. “You’re cleared! Said D’Anjou, suddenly appearing at his side, holding a piece of paper in his hand. This is signed by the prefect of the Kai-tak police” (Ludlum 302). It also is in Jason’s best interest to find Marie, as she helped him recover his memory after being shot in the head in the first book.
Next I will be questioning how Jason was able to predict the assassin would attempt to kill the Chinese and British delegation with a car bomb. Jason was able to narrow down the assassin’s options very quickly while he was on the tarmac waiting for the plane to approach. “It would land in a matter of minutes, minutes Jason wished could be extended” (Ludlum 303). Jason however was searching for ways someone who was impersonating him would attempt an assassination, so he basically was searching for the best way to assassinate a target under the given circumstances. By looking for the way he would attempt the assassination himself, he simplified his search for how the real assassin was planning on killing the diplomats. By finding the way he would do it, he was able to stultify the assassination attempt.
Lastly I will be visualizing.

The scene I chose to visualize when Jason is frantically searching for the assassin’s plan, and how he can stop it. Jason darts his eyes from person to person, and from suitcase to suitcase, but he is unable to find anything suspicious. “Bourne’s mind was racing as he roamed through the crowd in the downpour, his eyes darting everywhere” (Ludlum 305). He then decides to look for other ways the assassin would attempt the killing. Jason thinks of any possible way, from a suppressed sniper rifle that would silently shoot someone, to a camera modified to fire a projectile. Jason however quickly rules both out as the first would be too risky to try and escape from, and the second would be very hard to sneak past the security of the event. After the plane lands and the diplomats step off, they turn towards a convoy of limousines meant to take them to their destination. Jason realizes the assassin’s plot with seconds to spare, and rushes towards a senior looking officer. Jason then quickly explains he is the agent from the Mossad that was sent to help with counter-assassin operations. Jason screams at the officer to stop the lead limousine and get everyone out of it, saying that a bomb is one board it. The officer quickly radios the driver, and everyone in the limousine listens, getting out of the blast radius just before the bomb goes off. Jason quickly made the assassin’s plan obsolete and was able to continue searching for

Marie.