Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. Poster of the 2018 TV series and cover of the 1987 book, Patriot Games
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Patriot Games
Tom Clancy, 1987
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Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland, 2018-2023

When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.


Parker. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 2000 book, Flashfire
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Flashfire
Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake), 2000
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Taylor Hackford, 2013

Parker is a professional thief, specializing in big robberies, who follows a unique code—he doesn’t steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. The job, taking the gate money from the Ohio State Fair, is successful, but Hardwicke ignored instructions after being denied access to the correct spot, resulting in him needlessly killing a man in a fire set as a distraction.


Piercing. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 1994 book
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Piercing
Ryū Murakami, 1994
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Nicolas Pesce, 2018

Outwardly, Reed leads a typical yuppie life living in a stylish apartment with his wife Mona and their newborn daughter, it afforded by a white collar professional career. But Reed has a need not only to kill, but kill in a specific way, with an ice pick. Rather than his initial target, he instead chooses as his victim an English speaking prostitute.