Thunderball. Poster of the 1965 movie and cover of the 1961 book
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Thunderball
Ian Fleming, 1961
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Terence Young, 1965

SPECTRE operative Emilio Largo devises a plan to hold NATO to ransom by hijacking two atomic bombs from a Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan strategic jet bomber during a training exercise. To facilitate Largo’s plans, SPECTRE operative Count Lippe recruits Angelo Palazzi to oversee the theft of the bombs, and with help from SPECTRE agent Fiona Volpe, has him surgically alter his face to match that of French Air Force pilot François Derval.


The Passengers. Poster of the 1977 movie and cover of the 1973 book, Shattered
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Shattered
Dean Koontz, 1973
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Serge Leroy, 1977

Having gone to look for his son-in-law in Italy, a man is chased by a mysterious vehicle, then attacked in his hotel room. Back in Paris, he finds himself involved in a dark story of murder.