''Dead Spy Running'' is a 2009

spy novel Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device. It emerged in the early twentieth century, inspired by rivalries and intrigues between the major powers, and the establishment of modern intellig ...

by Jon Stock.

Plot

When suspended

MI6 The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligenc ...

agent Daniel Marchant participates in the London Marathon he discovers a suicide bomber among the other runners. As Marchant eventually figures out the very man is determined to commit a

terrorist attack Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war a ...

against the US-American Embassy. Marchant foils the attempt and saves the US-American

ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or so ...

. Unfortunately his good deed backfires for him because the

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finds it all too unlikely that he got entangled in this matter only by coincidence. They have him arrested and interrogated for suspect of

collaborationism Wartime collaboration is cooperation with the enemy against one's country of citizenship in wartime. As historian Gerhard Hirschfeld says, it "is as old as war and the occupation of foreign territory". The term ''collaborator'' dates to the 19th c ...

with anti-western terrorist groups. After his jailbreak western secret services chase Marchant around the world.

Book deal

In July 2008 Stock signed a three book deal, with Blue Door, a new

HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five (publishers), Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, Macmi ...

imprint. ''Dead Spy Running'' the very first book in the trilogy was published in July 2009.

Sequels

The sequel of the novel is ''Games Traitors Play'' publish on 29 September 2011 and the third novel in the series is ''Dirty Little Secret'' published on 5 July 2012.

Film

Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bro ...

acquired the movie rights to the ''Dead Spy Running'' franchise in October 2008 to make the first of a proposed three movie franchise, they signed on

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director McG to direct the movie along with

Stephen Gaghan Stephen Gaghan ( ; born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film '' Traffic'', based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Sc ...

to write the screen play. It was initially reported that after the shooting of McG's last movie Terminator Salvation, he would be taking up the shooting of the remake ''Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', but with the cancelling of this movie by Disney it appears that ''Dead Spy Running'' will be the next movie to be taken up.

References

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