On the Edge

1. Eric Ambler’s 1962 novel The Light of The Day wasmade into this popular 1964 heist movie starring PeterUstinov and Maxmillian Schell. The plot deals with a small time crook Abdel Simpson getting involved with apair of jewel thieves in Turkey. Name the movie.

TOPKAPI

2. This 1997 movie starring Clint Eastwood and GeneHackmann is based on a novel by David Baldacci. It deals with the story of a small time crook Luther Whitney who is an eye witness to a crime committed byUS President, and the subsequent cover up operations.Name the movie.

ABSOLUTE POWER

3. This novel was written by the author when he was in bed suffering from illness. It was his first thriller and introduced the character of Richard Hannay. dealing with conspiracy theory set in WW1 was a great hit with the soldiers then.

THE 39 STEPS

4. Born in Baltimore, he was son of a police detective. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutnantin US Marine Corps. After being seriously injured in a helicopter accident, he left the Navy and worked forMerill Lynch as a stockbroker. He married Caroline Muller, a medico student and did his Phd in Historyfrom Georgetown University and later worked as ahistory teacher at US Naval Academy. He is credited with inventing the Canary trap, a method for exposing an information leak. Name this character.

JACK RYAN

5. Justin Quayle finds his wife Tessa murdered in Nairobi. Investigation reveals a conspiracy involving pharma companies and a corporate scandal. Also made into a movie starring Ralph fiennes, name the book.

THE CONSTANT GARDNER

6. “Pride and Extreme Prejudice, “The Price of the Bride”,”A Casualty of War” and “A Little Bit of Sunshine” are the 4 novellas in this 1991 book. These 4 stories are actually narrated by a former SIS agent Sam Mc Ready during his trial. Name the book.

THE SHEPHERD BY FREDERICK FORSYTH

7. Typical John Grisham novel about a young lawgraduate Rudy Baylor, he joins as an associate toLyman “Bruiser” Stone a successful ambulance chasing lawyer. In his quest for picking up accident victims,he meets Deck Shifflet an unethical ex insuranc esurveyor.

THE RUNAWAY JURY

8. A “Da Vinci Code” sort of novel by Robert Ludlum,it centers around the Order of Xenope, a remote Greek Monastic brotherhood, which has some ancient manuscripts related to the death of Jesus Christ. Andalso a tale involving two brothers fighting over the document.

THE GEMINI CONTENDERS

9. The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum, is thestory of an author, who uncovers a plot by Invar to assassinate a real life figure who was quite controversial during his time. Which personality?

J.EDGAR HOOVER

10. "But -" I paused. "Good God, Gregori, no sane man, not even the most monstrous criminal in history, wouldever dream of such, of such - In the name of heaven,man, you can't mean it!"

"It may be that I am not sane," he said.The above quote is taken from a very popular AlistairMcLean novel.

THE SATAN BUG