Spy games: Movie characters based on spy novels

In Istanbul, MI6 agents James Bond and Eve Moneypenny pursue mercenary Patrice, who has stolen a hard drive containing details of undercover agents. He fails a series of physical, medical, and psychological examinations, but M approves his return to the field, ordering him to identify Patrice’s employer, recover the hard drive, and kill Patrice.

Following his pursuit by Kirill, Jason Bourne eludes Moscow police while wounded through a train station and deals with more flashbacks of when he first joined Operation Treadstone. Meanwhile, in Turin, journalist Simon Ross of The Guardian meets an informant to learn about Bourne and Operation Blackbriar, the program succeeding Treadstone.

During a mission in the Middle East in 1997, probationary secret agent Lee Unwin sacrifices himself to protect his superior, Harry Hart. Hart, code name Galahad, explains there is a position available, as agent Lancelot was killed by the assassin Gazelle while trying to rescue university professor James Arnold from kidnappers.

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.

In the Mediterranean Sea, fishermen rescue an American adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. The skipper finds a laser projector under the man’s hip that gives the number of a safe deposit box in Zürich.

Recuperating from a broken leg, adventuresome professional photographer L. B. Jeff Jefferies is confined to a wheelchair in his apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan. He spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Two years after their disappearance, Jason Bourne and Marie Kreutz are in Goa, India. Gretkov directs Kirill to Goa to kill Bourne; however, Bourne spots him at the market and on the beach and flees with Marie in a vehicle.

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.

Jim Phelps and his latest Impossible Missions Force team, who had just finished a mission in Kyiv, are dispatched to stop the theft of the CIA non-official cover list from the American embassy in Prague by rogue agent Alexander Golitsyn. As Hunt is the only surviving member, Kittridge suspects him of being the mole, and Hunt flees, using explosive chewing gum given to him by a fellow agent before the mission started to cover his escape.

A posthumous message from the previous M leads MI6 agent James Bond to carry out an unauthorized mission in Mexico City on the Day of the Dead, where he stops a terrorist bombing plot. Upon his return to London, Bond is suspended from field duty by Gareth Mallory, the current M, who is engaged in a power struggle with Max Denbigh, the Director-General of the new, privately backed Joint Intelligence Service formed by the merger of MI5 and MI6.

Frank Moses (Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, who’s now in RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous) status, lives alone in Cleveland. Lonely, Frank creates opportunities to talk to Sarah Ross (Parker), a worker at the General Services Administration’s pension office in Kansas City, by tearing up his pension checks and calling to say they have n’t arrived.

In 1957 New York City, Rudolf Abel is arrested and charged with spying for the Soviet Union. Abel is convicted, but Donovan convinces the judge to spare Abel the death penalty because Abel had been serving his country honorably, and he might prove useful for a future prisoner exchange.