Washington, Hong Kong and Peking - terror sweeps the globe. The Vice-Premier of the People\"s Republic has been brutally murdered by a legendary assassin and everyone is asking the same fearful questions: Why has Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is next on his death list? But US officials know the shocking truth: there is no Jason Bourne....

It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne\"s age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy. In Europe and America there are men and women whose lust for power is disguised by their positions and respectability....