[The Bourne Ultimatum: Jason Bourne Book #3] [By: Ludlum, Robert] [June, 2012] cover

[The Bourne Ultimatum: Jason Bourne Book #3] [By: Ludlum, Robert] [June, 2012]

Jason Bourne • Book 3

by Robert Ludlum

Narrated by Scott Brick

4.27 ABR Score (69.0K ratings)
★ 4.08 Goodreads (67.5K) ★ 4.41 Audible (1.5K)
29h 23m Released 2009 Thriller

Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Scott Brick narrates this 29-hour Bourne-vs-Jackal showdown like he has a personal grudge to settle — and somehow it never drags.

  • Great if you want: Cold War spy tradecraft, globe-trotting tension, and a classic rivalry payoff
  • Listening experience: dense and layered — rewards full attention, not casual background listening
  • Narration: Brick's commanding baritone matches Bourne's fractured, high-stakes intensity perfectly
  • Skip if: you haven't read books one and two — callbacks are constant and unforgiving

Listen to [The Bourne Ultimatum: Jason Bourne Book #3] [By: Ludlum, Robert] [June, 2012] on Audible →

About This Audiobook

David Webb has tried to become a normal man, a professor, a husband, a father, living in a university town far from the world that made him Jason Bourne. But the Jackal, Carlos, is sending messages: two separate men receive telegrams signed with Bourne's name at a small-town carnival, where a killing follows. Webb understands what it means. Carlos is calling him out for a final confrontation, and the only way to protect the people he loves is to become again the thing he has been trying to stop being. Robert Ludlum's third Bourne novel is the culmination of a trilogy built around the cost of assumed identities.

Scott Brick brings the enormous scope and the decade-spanning timeline of The Bourne Ultimatum under control, navigating Ludlum's dense plotting and large ensemble with his characteristic command. His Jason Bourne carries both the competence of the trained operative and the exhaustion of a man who has been at war with himself as long as with his enemies. At nearly twenty-nine hours, this is the most ambitious entry in the original Ludlum trilogy.