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Published in 1998, Tom Clancy's techno-thriller *Rainbow Six* centers on CIA operative John Clark, who is appointed to lead a secretive multinational counter-terrorism unit. The unit is deployed to stop a global bioweapon plot orchestrated by environmental extremists. The book's popularity led to a...
Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 political thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. Jessica Chastain plays Maya, a fictionalized CIA analyst whose work forms the narrative thread through the search for Osama bin Laden after the September 11 attacks, ending with the 2011 raid on his c...
"The Secret Servant" is a 2007 spy novel by Daniel Silva, serving as the seventh book in the Gabriel Allon series. The plot centers on Allon, an Israeli intelligence officer and art restorer, who travels to Amsterdam to purge the archives of an asset. The mission quickly escalates when the daughter...
"Consent to Kill" is a 2005 political thriller by Vince Flynn, featuring CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp. The plot centers on a wealthy Saudi businessman who seeks revenge against Rapp for assassinating his terrorist son. He hires a lethal former East German intelligence operative to carry...
A Most Wanted Man is a 2014 espionage thriller film directed by Anton Corbijn. The screenplay by Andrew Bovell is adapted from John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name. The plot centers on a Chechen-Muslim immigrant who arrives illegally in Hamburg, Germany, drawing the attention of competing glo...
Portrait of a Spy is a political espionage thriller by Daniel Silva, published in 2011 as the eleventh book in the Gabriel Allon series. The plot follows Gabriel Allon as he is drawn back into the world of counter-terrorism following a series of coordinated attacks in European cities. Allon collabor...
Vince Flynn's 2009 Mitch Rapp novel follows the relentless hunt for surviving terrorists responsible for a coordinated bombing attack that killed dozens in Washington, D.C.
Frederick Forsyth's 2013 novel centers on a U.S. Marine tracker hunting a radical Islamist preacher who radicalizes Western recruits through internet sermons.
The Teeth of the Tiger is a 2003 Tom Clancy thriller that introduces Jack Ryan Jr. and The Campus, a covert agency in his Jack Ryan universe.
