''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 intelligen ...

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

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among the other runners. As Marchant eventually figures out the very man is determined to commit a

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against the US-American Embassy. Marchant foils the attempt and saves the US-American ambassador. 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, and in the words of historian Gerhard Hirschfeld, "is as old as war and the occupation of foreign territory". The term ''collaborator'' dates to ...

with anti-western

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. 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

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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

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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 Charlie's Angels director

McG The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as "The 'G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hem ...

to direct the movie along with

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to write the screen play. It was initially reported that after the shooting of McG's last movie

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, 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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