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Featured Friday: Spies & Secret Agents

August 2, 2024 Apps, Weekend Read

[Weekend Read](https://quoteunquoteapps.com/weekendread/), our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week.

This week, we enter the clandestine world of spies and secret agents to see how their writers use action, tension and character to keep us on the edge of our seats.

Our collection includes:

– **Argo** by Chris Terrio
– **Bridge of Spies** by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
– **Burn After Reading** by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
– **Charlie’s Angels** by Ed Solomon & Ryan Rowe and John August
– **Hanna** by Seth Lochhead and David Farr
– **Killing Eve – “Nice Face”** by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
– **Kingsman: The Secret Service** by Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn
– **Mission: Impossible** by David Koepp and Robert Towne
– **Mission: Impossible – Fallout** by Christopher McQuarrie
– **Mr. & Mrs. Smith – “First Date”** by Donald Glover & Francesca Sloane
– **Skyfall** by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan
– **The Americans – “Pilot”** by Joe Weisberg
– **The Bourne Identity** by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron
– **The Debt** by Matthew Vaughn & Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan
– **The Night Manager – “Episode 1”** by David Farr
– **The Spy Who Dumped Me** by Susanna Fogel & David Iserson
– **Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy** by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
– **True Lies** by James Cameron
– **Turn: Washington’s Spies – “Pilot”** by Craig Silverstein & Mitchell Akselrad

Read these and other featured collections only on Weekend Read 2, available on all Mac and iOS devices. [Download for free](https://apps.apple.com/in/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355)!

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