#12 in Spy & espionage
The Bourne Supremacy
- 597
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Bourne Supremacy” takes Jason Bourne into a conspiracy played out against China, and some readers praise action that barely lets up. Readers split over it: some call it the high point of Ludlum’s three Bourne novels, though some of them miss the earlier book’s villain. Others think it a duller follow-up to the first: they find the story slow, were bored at times, or could not warm to Bourne’s wife.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
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).
Reading order · Bourne
Full order & progress →- The Bourne IdentityStart here
7.77.7 / 10 - The Bourne SupremacyThis book
7.77.7 / 10 - The Bourne Ultimatum
7.57.5 / 10 - The Bourne Legacy
–Not ranked yet - The Bourne Betrayal
–Not ranked yet - The Bourne Sanction
–Not ranked yet - The Bourne Deception
–Not ranked yet - The Bourne Objective
–Not ranked yet - The Bourne Dominion
–Not ranked yet - The Bourne ImperativeThe Bourne Imperative–Not ranked yet
- The Bourne Retribution
–Not ranked yet - The Bourne AscendancyThe Bourne Ascendancy–Not ranked yet
- The Bourne EnigmaThe Bourne Enigma–Not ranked yet
- The Bourne InitiativeThe Bourne Initiative–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 227 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 61% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Spy & espionage average of 7.6. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 227 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Bourne Supremacy?
It has 597 pages — longer than 91% of the ranked books in Spy & espionage.
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