And the events leading up to disaster unfold like a spy thriller.

In many ways, it's a more straightforward spy thriller, without so much of the mystery that the other two have.

And writers of spy thrillers were whispering all the way to the bank.

You sound like a third-rate actor in a spy thriller.

The book reads like a spy thriller with no scenes or characters.

They had found a stack of spy thrillers from his days in Moscow.

That project has been characterized as a spy thriller set in a fantasy world.

The effort has been going on for weeks and has some elements of a spy thriller.

It was then, he said, that he really seemed to be living in a spy thriller.