"Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications." --The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp ; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving's cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other; but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive. "One of the most remarkable things about John Irving's first three novels, viewed from the vantage of The World According to Garp , is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise. . . . The 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft." --Terrence Des Pres

1995 film by Tony Scott

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?

Captain Glass of the USS Arkansas discovers that a coup d'état is taking place in Russia, so he and his crew join an elite group working on the ground to prevent a war.

2017 film directed by Steven Spielberg

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

2017 film by David Leitch

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere. Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a ‘secret mission’ which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage – trust no one. McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.

A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

二战后，年轻的英国电子工程师伦纳德被派往德国参与英美合作的情报工程。战后的柏林，满目疮痍，善良单纯的伦纳德却在这里邂逅了美丽温柔的德国女子玛丽亚，从而卷入了一个充满爱与性的狂乱世界，色授魂与，不可自拔。正当两人难舍难分之际，一次意外谋杀，终使两人擦肩而过，抱憾终生。 这是一段冷战时期的罗曼史，一场二战之后的间谍战，一部惊悚的犯罪心理小说……一如既往，麦克尤恩把爱情、战争、悬疑、犯罪、性，以及黑色幽默等种种元素糅合得天衣无缝，他的笔下展现的是一个萧索绝望的柏林城，在这里，纯洁无辜之人无处容身，恐惧寒冷处处笼罩着他们，直至走向无尽的黑夜。 “非常有趣！” ——《华尔街日报》 “写作技巧纯熟、悬念迭起的小说……许多英语作家都经常被错误地拿来与伊夫林·沃作比较，但这本书却足以和那位大师的经典平起平坐。” ——《时代周刊》 “这本书如此扣人心弦，简直让人一气读完，不忍释卷……麦克尤恩将间谍小说的情节与脆弱如亚当和夏娃的神话糅合在一起。” ——《新闻周刊》 “（这本书）具有卡罗尔·里德电影的那种感觉：毛骨悚然，充满扭曲，处处危机四伏。它让我想起电影《第三者》，这不是一般的作品。” ——乔纳森·卡罗尔，《华盛顿邮报》读书世界版 “充满力量又令人不安……又一部力作。” ——《纽约时报》

After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.

James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.

橫跨德國、捷克斯洛伐克，以及奧地利的一連串恐怖殺人事件，躲在幕後的主使者除了傳播媒體所稱的「約翰」以外，藉由一位新聞工作者對相關人士進行的一系列採訪，似乎隱約透露出其他訊息。歷經納粹統治、二戰、冷戰時期共黨專制，以及柏林圍牆倒塌後的動盪與人心糾葛，在眾人看不見的黑暗角落，他們是否還製造出另一個怪物？

A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

2011 film directed by Tomas Alfredson