Best Counterterrorism

Zero Dark Thirty (2012), directed by Kathryn Bigelow, stars Jessica Chastain as a CIA analyst in the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, culminating in the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan.

Seventh Gabriel Allon novel by Daniel Silva (2007), in which Allon races to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands from Islamist extremists.

Vince Flynn's 2005 Mitch Rapp novel follows a slain terrorist's wealthy father hiring European operatives to track down and kill Rapp in revenge.

2014 spy thriller directed by Anton Corbijn, adapted from John le Carré's novel, with Philip Seymour Hoffman as a Hamburg intelligence officer in one of his final screen performances.

Eleventh Gabriel Allon novel by Daniel Silva (2011), in which Allon works with the CIA to infiltrate an al-Qaeda network responsible for a string of suicide bombings in Europe.

Fourth Scot Harvath novel by Brad Thor (2005), in which Harvath uncovers a plot to weaponize an ancient biological agent and deploy it against Western targets.

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.