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* [[Adam Hall]] relied on this formula for his [[Quiller]] spy novels—The Quiller Memorandum, The Tango Briefing, The Cobra Manifesto, etc, until The Peking Target. Then after that it was Quiller Northlight, Quiller Barracuda, Quiller's Run and so on.
* The Gun Seller (something of a parody of thriller novels in general, written by Hugh Laurie)
* [[wikipedia:The Secret Agent|The Secret Agent]]
* The Secret Pilgrim
* The Secret Servant
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* The Human Factor
* The Holcroft Covenant
* [[wikipedia:The Killing Zone|The Killing Zone]]
* The Russia House
* The Silver Mistress
* The Xanadu Talisman
* [[The Pelican Brief]]
* [[The Hudsucker Proxy]]
* [[The Phantom Menace]]
* [[The China Syndrome]]
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* [[Tintin|The Calculus Affair]]
* Parodied in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[The Last Continent]]'', where a humorous aside notes how any self-improving book you bring along for beach reading seems to transform into a conspiracy thriller with at least [[Gratuitous Greek|one Greek letter]] in the title, like ''The Gamma Imperative'' or ''The Mu Kau Pi Caper''.
* Tom Clancy's Powerplay series, 'Bio-Strike'{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
* Whether [[Star Trek: The Original Series|live]] or [[Star Trek: The Animated Series|animated]], classic ''[[Star Trek]]'' liked these titles, with examples such as "The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Alternative Factor", "The Enterprise Incident", "The Lorelei Signal", "The Ambergris Element", and many more.
** ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Next Generation]]'' continued to carry the tradition, although a bit less enthusiastically: "The Icarus Factor" and "The Vengeance Factor" are perhaps the only inarguable examples, with others, like "The Naked Now," as borderline cases. ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' also got into the act, with "The Omega Directive," "The Voyager Conspiracy," and "The Killing Game."
* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/05/26/ This] ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' comic pokes fun at a similar theme among espionage video games.
* [[Dan Brown]]'s ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' and ''[[The Lost Symbol]]''.
* Peter F. Hamilton's sci-fi trilogy ''Night's Dawn'' has a different name for the series, but the individual novels are:
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* The original US edition of ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey|Unnatural Death]]'' by Dorothy Sayers was titled ''The Dawson Pedigree'', though later editions have reverted to Sayers' title.
* In ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', [[Playful Hacker|Claudia Donovan]] tries to hack into the Warehouse computer and finds out that this was anticipated, and she's activated something called the "Donovan Contingency". Her reaction: "Cool! I'm the star of a Ludlum novel."
* 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''.
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