I feel like there's a Naming Convention trope in spy / espionage / thriller novels, but don't know how to find examples of it.
In the video game Hitman (2016) there are special missions called Escalations that have a naming convention I LOVE. It's a classic Spy name thing: The Eccleston Illumination, The Gladwyn Simulacrum, The Scarlatti Covenant, The Scorpio Directive, The Zunino Disintegration, etc.
There's a Bourne series on USA called Treadstone that has the same naming convention: The Cicada Protocol, The Kwon Conspiracy, The Berlin Proposal, The Kentucky Contract, The Hades Awakening, etc.
Where does this come from?
I know of British spy novelist named Len Deighton who's first novel—a hugely successful novel, at that—was titled The Ipcress File....
But it's not like the rest of his books have that convention.
I feel like there's a Naming Convention trope in spy / espionage / thriller novels, but don't know how to find examples of it.
In the video game Hitman (2016) there are special missions called Escalations that have a naming convention I LOVE. It's a classic Spy name thing: The Eccleston Illumination, The Gladwyn Simulacrum, The Scarlatti Covenant, The Scorpio Directive, The Zunino Disintegration, etc.
There's a Bourne series on USA called Treadstone that has the same naming convention: The Cicada Protocol, The Kwon Conspiracy, The Berlin Proposal, The Kentucky Contract, The Hades Awakening, etc.
Where does this come from?
I know of British spy novelist named Len Deighton who's first novel—a hugely successful novel, at that—was titled The Ipcress File....
But it's not like the rest of his books have that convention.
The Ipcress File (1962)
Horse Under Water (1962)
Funeral in Berlin (1964) ...and so on.