The fifty-year-old Bourne and the ailing sixty-year-old Jackal are determined to annihilate one another.
Again, encounters with the Jackal end up in frustration. Jason, however, continues on to Paris and is soon followed by his wife, Marie. Furthermore, he wants Jason to return to Langley to help in nailing the members of the new Medusa. Meanwhile the CIA has become interested in the new Medusa and the director, Peter Holland, refuses to offer any assistance to Jason. The Jackal challenges him to come to Paris, as he makes his escape. Jason arrives and manages to foil the Jackal but gets seriously wounded in the exchange. Nevertheless, Carlos manages to locate them and form a plot for their extermination. Jason's family goes to the island inn called Tranquility, owned by Marie Webb's brother, John St. Although he sees no connection between the new Medusa and Carlos the Jackal, Bourne sees it as an opportunity to have the organization hire Carlos to kill him, thus bringing the Jackal out of his cover in Paris. Jason, once a member of a Viet Nam era killer squad, code named Medusa, discovers that the organization has re-emerged in the civilian world. The novel deals with their conflict culminating in the surprise death of Carlos, the Jackal. David immediately fears for the safety of his family and allows his alter-ego of Jason Bourne, cold blooded killer, to emerge. Carlos, fed by his hatred for Bourne, whose existence had clouded his self-proclaimed title of the "world's greatest assassin," fires the first salvo in a murder attempt against David's friends and mentors, Alex Conklin and Dr. In fact, he is living in Maine as David Webb, a university professor. It begins with the discovery by Carlos the Jackal that his old nemesis, Jason Bourne, was not killed thirteen years ago in Hong Kong, as had been widely publicized. The Bourne Ultimatum is a novel about the complex machinations of Cold War intrigue.
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