Are there any other Serial Killer Spy Novels like Never Send Flowers?

Silhouette Man

The purpose of this thread is to collate information regarding Never Send Flowers - are there any other spy thrillers of this type where a secret agent/spy/secret intelligence operative chases a serial killer after political assassination etc.

If there are, I'd love to hear the titles of such books (and/or films) and their authors?

Is Never Send Flowers a rarity in this sense?

Or are there other such novels out there in the spy fiction/crime/serial killer specific genres?

Thanking you for reading and hoping that someone out there will be able to come up with an answer on this one.

superado

What comes to mind immediately are (1) The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsythe, and (2) the original Bourne trilogy by Robert Ludlum (specifically the 1st, Bourne Identity and 3rd, The Bourne Ultimatum). These novels are connected in one way or another to the terrorist/assassin, Carlos the Jackal and involve the mobilization of the security agencies of various governments to capture the assassin. Of course, there is always a trail of leads that gets obscured by the murdering of those leads, etc., etc.

Silhouette Man

superado wrote:

What comes to mind immediately are (1) The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsythe, and (2) the original Bourne trilogy by Robert Ludlum (specifically the 1st, Bourne Identity and 3rd, The Bourne Ultimatum). These novels are connected in one way or another to the terrorist/assassin, Carlos the Jackal and involve the mobilization of the security agencies of various governments to capture the assassin. Of course, there is always a trail of leads that gets obscured by the murdering of those leads, etc., etc.

Yes, thanks so much superado, I had The Day of the Jackal in mind myself! I'm currently writing a monograph that will appear on The Alternative James Bond Blog in July 2013 on Never Send Flowers as a serial killer James Bond spy thriller and how it all links back to the works of Ian Fleming. It is to be entitled "John Gardner's EuroDisneyland of Death" and will be published to mark the 20th Anniversary of the publication of NSF in the UK. It might convert a few of the Gardner doubters in the James Bond online fan community, I'm hoping.