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Many [[Spy Drama|spy]] and [[Thriller]] novels follow a specific formula in their titles. The first word sounds like it could be code for something or is someone's name (and is often [[Gratuitous Greek]]), and the second word is a noun with political or [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|symbolic]] undertones.
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** The Scarlatti Inheritance
*** Parodied in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode 405 ("Being from Another Planet"). During the film a bookshelf is shown, and Joel and the 'Bots begin rattling off a [[Long List]] of fictional titles from "the Ludlum library".
*** Ludlum also parodied it himself, by having one character write bestselling thrillers which always have a single-word title connected to the action like "TANK!" or "SHARK!"
*** Also parodied in Series 4 Episode 6 of ''[[Armando Iannuccis Charm Offensive]]'', which had a round called "The Bourne Ulti-Ludlum" whereby panel members drew [the] + [normal noun] + [exotic noun] from hats to create titles like "The Byzantium Potato". "Who thinks ''potato'' is an exotic noun?"
* ''[[The Middleman]]'' does this for EVERY EPISODE:
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* Parodied in a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' segment for fictional author Harlan Kane's new novel, ''The Abacus Conundrum''. Other books by the author [[Long List|include]] The Medici Codex, The Genghis Rubicon, The Harlequin Protocol, The Ichabod Formula, The Pinochet Sudoku, the Nostradamus Mechanism, The Godiva Gyroscope, The Pokemon Directive, The Vespucci Containment, The Fuddrucker Ultimatum, The Marmaduke Betrayal, The Brenda Effect, The Picasso Embrogio, and [[Odd Name Out|Mac For Dummies]].
* The Poughkeepsie Tapes.
* Every episode of the [[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]] cartoon was titled in this style as "The (Insert Subject Here) Syndrome
* ''[[The Laundry Series]]'' is entirely named “The (Something) (Document(s))”:
** ''The Atrocity Archive''
** ''The Jennifer Morgue''
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** [[Othello|The Kerchief Implication]]
** [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|The Solstice Entrancement]]
* Strangely enough of all of of Ian Fleming's work only a single [[James Bond]] short-story actually fits this pattern and (as of 2024) its story and title were never used for a movie: ''The Hildebrandt Rarity''
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* [[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]
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