“Henry and I decided that Bob was following the same formula in his books which was, you know, schmuck goes to hell and somebody innocent gets caught in a conspiracy which is way beyond him. He’d worked with Ludlum (who died in 2001) on a number of his pre-Bourne titles. Marek at the time was running his own imprint at Putnam. There’s a restaurant in Manhattan popular with publishers in the late 1970s that should have a plaque saying “Jason Bourne was hatched here.” It was at this restaurant-he can’t remember its name now-that Marek says he met with the author and his eponymous agent Henry Morrison to raise a difficult subject. As the eponymous fifth outing in the highly successful Jason Bourne film franchise goes to cinemas this week in many parts of the world, we spoke with Marek and others who were there at the beginning. Marek is the man credited with shaping the career of Robert Ludlum and being involved in the inception of Ludlum’s most famous character, Jason Bourne.
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