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Portrait image of Doug Johnstone Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2013)

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Johnstone, Doug

The Scottish novelist, musician and journalist Douglas ‘Doug’ Johnstone was born in Irvine in Scotland, but grew up in the Scottish town of Arbroath. He moved to Edinburgh in connection with his studies, gaining a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics at the University of Edinburgh. He worked a few years in that field – developing military technology – but in 1999 he tired of it and became a freelance arts jou...

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Jason Bourne

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David Webb was a professional killer and spy when he suffers a total loss of memory after a mission. The CIA quickly changed his name to Jason Bourne, and have used him for several missions of a not particularly honourable nature. His wife was killed in a bombing, but his sons survived – which he didn’t know at first. Robert Ludlum wrote the first books about him, after which he was taken over by...

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