{{Infobox book | name = The Bourne Supremacy | title_orig = | translator = | image = Ludlum - The Bourne Supremacy Coverart.png | caption = First edition cover of The Bourne Supremacy | author = Robert Ludlum | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = Bourne Trilogy| subject = | genre = Thriller | publisher = Random House | pub_date = February 11, 1986 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print (hardback & paperback) | pages = 597 pp (first edition) | isbn = 0-394-54396-3 | dewey = 813/.54 19 | congress = PS3562.U26 B68 1986 | oclc = 12371273 | preceded_by = The Bourne Identity | followed_by = The Bourne Ultimatum }}The Bourne Supremacy is the second Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum, first published in 1986. It is the sequel to Ludlum's bestseller The Bourne Identity (1980) and precedes Ludlum's final Bourne novel, The Bourne Ultimatum (1990).The Bourne Supremacy gave its name to the second Bourne film, The Bourne Supremacy'', starring Matt Damon in 2004; however, the movie adaptation has a completely different plot from the novel. Plot Jason Bourne has recovered from most of his mental and physical injuries and is teaching Asian studies at a university in Maine under his real name of David Webb, living happily on campus with his wife Marie under supervision of psychiatrist Morris Panov. Meanwhile, high-ranking U.S. officials Ambassador Raymond Havilland and Undersecretary Edward McAllister discuss an increasingly alarming situation in the People's Republic of China, where the popular Communist official Sheng Chou Yang is boosting his rise to power with assassinations perpetrated by someone impersonating Jason Bourne. They fear that Sheng, a fanatical nationalist, might trigger a war, and therefore want him to be found and killed. Webb would be ideal for this, but they plan to involve him indirectly owing to his mistrust of the U.S. government and Webb's deep-seated emotional instability due to the loss of his first wife and children in Vietnam. McAllister arrives and informs Webb of the assassin in Asia who is killing under the name of Jason Bourne. Webb is told he requires a more visible security force because someone wants him dead. Soon thereafter, Marie is abducted by unknown people. Webb returns to the house, finds clues to her abduction, and immediately phones government officials, threatening to leak information about Treadstone