Munich. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1984 book, Vengeance
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Vengeance
George Jonas, 1984
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Steven Spielberg, 2005

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September kills 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team. Avner Kaufman, a Mossad agent of German-Jewish descent, is chosen to lead a mission to assassinate 11 Palestinians allegedly involved in the massacre.


The Crimson Rivers. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the 1998 book, Blood Red Rivers
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Blood Red Rivers
Jean-Christophe Grangé, 1998
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Mathieu Kassovitz, 2000

Detective Superintendent Pierre Niemans, a well-known Parisian police investigator, is sent to the small university town of Guernon in the French Alps to investigate a brutal murder. Niemans learns that the victim was a professor and the university’s librarian, Remy Callois, and he seeks out a local ophthalmologist for an explanation regarding the removal of the eyes.


Babylon A.D.. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 1999 book, Babylon Babies
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Babylon Babies
Maurice G. Dantec, 1999
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Mathieu Kassovitz, 2008

In a dystopian 2027, Russian mobster Gorsky hires the mercenary Toorop to bring a young woman known only as Aurora from Europe to New York City. Gorsky gives Toorop a variety of weapons and a subdermally implanted UN passport. The stress of humanity’s situation causes Aurora to act out in strange ways and display clairvoyance abilities.