Green Zone. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 2006 book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, 2006
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Paul Greengrass, 2010

On March 19, 2003, Iraqi General Mohammed Al-Rawi flees his residence amid the bombardment of Baghdad. Afterward, CIA officer Martin Brown tells him that the next place he is to search was inspected by a UN team two months prior and that it too has been confirmed empty.


Oslo. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2017 book
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Oslo
J.T. Rogers, 2017
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Bartlett Sher, 2021

The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.


300: Rise of an Empire. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2018 comic book, Xerxes
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Xerxes
Frank Miller, 2018
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Noam Murro, 2014

Queen Gorgo of Sparta tells her men about the Battle of Marathon, in which King Darius of Persia was killed by General Themistokles of Athens ten years earlier. Darius’s son, Xerxes, witnesses his father’s death and is advised to not continue the war since only the gods can defeat the Greeks.


Damascus Cover. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 1977 book
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Damascus Cover
Howard Kaplan, 1977
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Daniel Zelik Berk, 2017

Ari Ben-Sion, an Israeli spy posing as a German businessman named Hans Hoffmann in Berlin in 1989, must get an Israeli spy out of Syria but realizes that he is part of a much bigger plan.


Stratton. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2003 book, The Hostage
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The Hostage
Duncan Falconer, 2003
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Simon West, 2017

In the midst of a high-stakes M16 operation aimed at intercepting perilous biochemical weapons, everything spirals into chaos, leaving special operative Stratton to confront a formidable adversary from his past. This former Soviet operative, presumed dead for twenty years, resurfaces with a vengeance, intending to unleash stolen chemical weapons upon his former benefactors.