First ones off the top of my head would be UBIK by Phillip K Dick or either Stranger in a Strange Land or JOB by Heinlein.
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would be an amazing moment to see on screen.
Is that from when Pham activates Countermeasure? There's so many potentially excellent moments.
The one that always sticks with me is Tomas Nau finally realising who Pham is, after almost being killed by him. Imagine venerating space-Jesus or space-Hitler for your entire life, on top of the countless lifetimes that person would need to have led, to still be alive - only to realise that the guy you thought was a weird old man is actually him, and he's here to fuck you up. Could be an incredible flashback-montage-reveal, although that scene's from Deepness in the Sky (I prefer Fire overall as a book)
Hey, Deepness in the Sky has plenty of good moments too (the capitalists and the spiders teaming up against the communists at the end), and Nau realizing who Pham is, is way up there. You could definitely get a paranoia thriller with the need to avoid omnipresent intelligent surveillance of every word you say and every step you take.