Casino Royale. Poster of the 2006 movie and cover of the 1953 book
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Casino Royale
Ian Fleming, 1953
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Martin Campbell, 2006

MI6 operative James Bond gains promotion to 00 agent status by assassinating two targets: traitorous section chief Dryden at the British Embassy in Prague and his contact, Fisher. In Uganda, the mysterious Mr. White introduces Steven Obanno, a high-ranking member of the Lord’s Resistance Army, to Le Chiffre, an Albanian private banker to terrorists.


Catch-22. Poster of the 2019 TV series and cover of the 1961 book
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller, 1961
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Luke Davies, David Michôd, 2019

John Yossarian is a United States Army Air Forces bombardier in World War II, furious that thousands of people are trying to kill him and that his own army keeps increasing the number of missions he must fly. He chose bombardier hoping the war would finish before his lengthy training but now sits exposed in the nose of a B-25 dropping bombs on strangers who are trying to kill him.


Man on Fire. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 1980 book
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Man on Fire
A.J. Quinnell, 1980
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Tony Scott, 2004

John W. Creasy is former Force Recon Marine and assassin who comes to Mexico to visit his old friend and brother-in-arms, Paul Rayburn. Creasy reluctantly agrees, and is later offered the job by Samuel Ramos, a wealthy automaker in Mexico City whose young daughter Lupita “Pita” Ramos requires a bodyguard before she can return to school and the kidnapping insurance policy takes effect.


Dune. Poster of the 2000 TV series and cover of the 1965 book
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Dune
Frank Herbert, 1965
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John Harrison, 2000

Emperor Corrino has issued a challenge that the House which can produce the most spice will control its source, the desert planet Dune, with no rules as to how the Houses can achieve the goal. Meanwhile, Lady Elara of the Bene Gesserit and bound concubine to the Emperor, secretly takes the commander – the player – into one of the Heighliners, a person whose bloodline and future the Sisterhood had checked.


Hannibal. Poster of the 2001 movie and cover of the 1999 book
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Hannibal
Thomas Harris, 1999
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Ridley Scott, 2001

Ten years after tracking down serial killer Jame Gumb, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is blamed for a botched drug raid. Using his wealth and political influence, Verger has Starling reassigned to Lecter’s case, hoping her involvement will draw Lecter out. In one city, Florence, Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi is investigating the disappearance of a library curator.


Quantum of Solace. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 1965 book
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Quantum of Solace
Ian Fleming, 1965
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Marc Forster, 2008

Moments after the end of the previous film, James Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr White in the trunk of his Aston Martin DBS V12. Observing her subsequent meeting with Greene, Bond learns Greene is helping exiled Bolivian General Medrano, who murdered Camille’s family, to overthrow the government and become the new president, in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.


The Catcher Was a Spy. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 1994 book
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The Catcher Was a Spy
Nicholas Dawidoff, 1994
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Ben Lewin, 2018

Moe Berg, a 15-year baseball veteran, joins the war effort as a spy to beat Nazi Germany in the race to build the first atomic bomb. Werner Heisenberg, who won the Nobel Prize in 1932 for pioneering quantum physics, is now in charge of the Nazis’ attempts to create an atom bomb. If so, it will fall to Berg to assassinate the brilliant physicist.