A huge jet circled Victoria Harbor on its final approach to Hong Kong’s airport. On board was David Webb, a man on a mission to rescue his wife Marie. As he looked out the window, he saw a city that was a crowded and confusing mixture of wealth and poverty, the old and the new, the East and the West.

            Marie had been kidnapped by American espionage agents who wanted to lure David Webb to Hong Kong to use him to capture a mysterious assassin. Webb was clearly the man for the job, since he had been trained as a killer and knew the Far East well. But he would never volunteer to take such an assignment, because the American government had betrayed him after he lost his memory on a secret mission.

            Because of this, Webb was somewhat mentally unbalanced when he flew into Hong Kong in search of his wife. Looking out the window of the jet, he felt a mixture of curiosity and anxiety. There were things he was aware that he knew, but could not specifically remember. For Webb, “the familiar and the unfamiliar were joined, and the result was bewilderment and fear.”¹

            David Webb is the hero of Robert Ludlum’s book The Bourne Supremacy. Perhaps you know him better by one of his aliases, “Jason Bourne.” In recent years, Matt Damon has played the role of Jason Bourne in a number of hit movies, ranging from The Bourne Identity in 2002 to Jason Bourne in 2016.

A life of uncertainty

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