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The Bourne Supremacy (Bourne Trilogy, Book 2)
Robert Ludlum
2004 · Thriller
How it reads
The Bourne Supremacy (Bourne Trilogy, Book 2) is thriller (spy thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in an international setting, in the recent past, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are identity, power and politics and survival. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. It's a long book, and a real commitment. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want an escape
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you want something you can finish this weekend
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- thriller
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- prolific veteran
- Setting: place
- international
- Setting: time
- recent past
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- long
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- mega-bestseller
- Series vs standalone
- later in a series
- Themes
- identity, power and politics, survival
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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