Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum was an American author who wrote 27 thriller novels before his death in 2001. He is best known as the creator of Jason Bourne, the spy at the center of The Bourne Trilogy, which begins with The Bourne Identity. His other books include The Matarese Circle, a political thriller and the first in its series, and The Icarus Agenda and The Scarlatti Inheritance, both spy stories. Ludlum also wrote under the names Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.