Pynchon is name-dropped and of course there is the matter of paranoia ... "An amnesiac action hero who battles a mystifying web of enemies, Jason Bourne has outlived his author. David Samuels considers the enduring appeal of the kicking, punching, paranoiac babe in the woods." http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091119/REVIEW/711199978/1120 Al