The story of former Prohibition officer and Cleveland Police officer Eliot Ness's attempts to catch the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run in the shanty towns of 1930s Cleveland.

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?