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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorCall for the Dead
John le Carre · 160 pages
Le Carre's first book which introduces George Smiley. Smiley investigates the apparent suicide of Samuel Fennan, who worked in the Foreign Office and had been under investigation due to his communist background at Oxford.
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming · 194 pages
Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless and licensed to kill. This, the first of Ian Fleming's tales of secret agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply "le Chiffre" -- by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to "retire" him. It seems that lady luck is taken with 007
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith · 384 pages
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Tom Clancy · 626 pages
Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One of them is CARDINAL—America's highest agent in the Kremlin—and he's about to be terminated by the KGB. The other is the one American who can save CARDINAL and lead the world to the brink of peace…or war. Here is author Tom Clancy's heart-stopping masterpiece. A riveting novel of the most important issue of our time.
An Honorable Man
Paul Vidich · 278 pages
"This gripping first novel in a spy thriller series, set in Washington D.C. at the height of the Red Scare, investigates a double agent in the CIA whose betrayals threaten to compromise the two lead investigators, the Agency, and the entire nation"-- Washington D.C., 1953. As the Cold War heats up, the CIA is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviet
The Last Frontier
Alistair MacLean · 319 pages
Doctor Jennings, a scientist in possession of a precious secret, has gone over to the Soviet Union, and British secret agent Michael Reynolds must get him back. Penetrating the Iron Curtain is difficult, but to bring out a man who is elderly and well-known seems impossible in the face of the secret police--until Reynolds discovers there are Hungarian patriots ready to help.
The Company
Robert Littell · 894 pages
From the back cover: Welcome to the Company - better known as the CIA to outsiders. With a sharp eye for the pathos and absurdity of the spy game, internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga that races across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the 1950s, the Soviet invasion
Topaz
Leon Uris · 352 pages
On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis, American and French intelligence agents are plunged into a maze of Cold War intrigue In Paris, 1962, French intelligence chief André Devereaux and NATO intelligence chief Michael Nordstrom have uncovered Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms to Cuba. But when Devereaux reports his findings and nobody acts—and he is targeted in an assassination attempt—he soon re
Top Secret
W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV · 546 pages
"From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War-and a different breed of warrior. In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, agai
Leaving Berlin
Joseph Kanon · 377 pages
Targeted by McCarthyism for his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with a fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin. "From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage--called a "fast-moving thinking man's thriller" by The Wall Street Journal--comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between poli
Then We Take Berlin
John Lawton · 400 pages
In 1963, freelance private investigator Joe Wilderness, a former MI6 agent and black market con artist, agrees to one last Berlin scam, which involves smuggling people, and brings his World War II gang of accomplices together once again.
The Human Factor
Graham Greene · 326 pages
"In the low-key but treacherous domain of "the firm," Maurice Castle performs routine intelligence duties that are less than world-shattering. Then a new security chief, "a broom," is appointed. As he sweeps through the department, he uncovers a leak, a systematic betrayal involving the major powers in South Africa. Castle's associate, Davis, had access to the files in question and his drinking, g
The November Man
Bill Granger · 351 pages
A super spy novel in the vein of Le Carre'. Cynical, hard and yet human. Bill Granger's November Man is a superb work of intrigue and mystery.
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · 364 pages
Hidden Prey
John Sandford · 393 pages
Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey novels and drifted in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he's happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine month old son, Sam; and takes care of his 12-year old ward, Letty West.
Saving the Queen
William F. Buckley Jr. · 293 pages
This is the first of the Blackford Oakes, CIA agent, novels. The book describes his recruitment into the CIA and his first assignment in England to discover the identity of the mole responsible for passing US nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
The Secret Lovers: A Paul Christopher Novel
Charles McCarry · 314 pages
Set in 1960 at the peak of the cold war, the story turns on the smuggling of a vital manuscript out of Moscow. At dawn in Berlin, covert action officer Paul Christopher rendezvouses with the agent carrying the manuscript to the West. Minutes later, the courier is killed by a hit-and-run driver. And the questions begin. Who killed the courier, but, most of all, why?
Agent 6
Tom Rob Smith · 552 pages
Wanneer zijn vrouw wordt vermoord in New York, pakt een Russische ex-geheim agent zijn oude stiel op om de dader op te sporen.
Devil May Care
Sebastian Faulks · 330 pages
An Algerian drug runner is savagely executed in the desolate outskirts of Paris. This seemingly isolated event leads to the recall of Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome and his return to the world of intrigue and danger where he is most at home. The head of MI6, M, assigns him to shadow the mysterious Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by his