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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Escape
Robert Muchamore · 298 pages
As two British children are being hunted by German agents, British spy Charles Henderson is trying to reach them first, but to do it he must depend on the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan.
Blood of Victory
Alan Furst · 352 pages
A panoramic novel, moving between Istanbul, Bucharest, Paris, Sofia and the Black Sea coast, involving Turkish secret police, Russian chekists, French aristocrats, Romanian millionaires, Polish exiles and British spies.
Christopher's Ghosts
Charles McCarry · 272 pages
During World War II sixteen-year-old Paul Christopher, who is half American and half German and in love with a Jewish girl, is continually harassed by SS officer Major Stutzer, and twenty years later has the opportunity to seek revenge when he is hired by the CIA to investigate the Soviets' intention of gaining power in the Middle East with Stutzer training their soldiers.
It Can't Always Be Caviar
Johannes Mario Simmel · 447 pages
Driven from his cherished London home by circumstances beyond his control, Thomas Lieven -- ladies man, pacifist and gourmand -- reluctantly finds himself forced to work as a secret agent for no less than four countries on various fronts of wartime Europe: England, France, Germany and the United States, before, during and after WWII. The book includes the recipes of the gourmet meals which Liev
Death and Honor
W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV · 470 pages
The crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series by the #1 New York Times– bestselling master of the military thriller. W.E. B. Griffin's Honor Bound saga of World War II espionage in Germany and Argentina has long been immensely popular: "Enough derring-do, romance and action to satisfy Griffin's legion of fans and bring him new ones" (Rocky Mountain News); "Cletus Frade's services t
Declare
Tim Powers · 528 pages
As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmarethat has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the
December 6
Martin Cruz Smith · 383 pages
Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings. Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistre
The Key to Rebecca
Ken Follett · 350 pages
His code name: "The Sphinx." His mission: to send Rommel's advancing army the secrets that would unlock the doors to Cairo ... and ultimate Nazi triumph in the war. And in all of Cairo, only two people could stop this brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent. One was a down-on-his-luck English officer no one would listen to. The other was a young Jewish girl ...
Night of the Fox
Jack Higgins · 262 pages
Narra unos acontecimientos que hubieran podido cambiar radicalmente el desenlace de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un veterano agente secreto británico debe rescatar a cualquier precio a un coronel norteamericano que ha naufragado cerca de la isla de Jersey, ocupada por los alemanes. El éxito de la operación resulta aún más problemático por la presencia en la isla de un doble del mariscal Rommel. La a
Spandau Phoenix
Greg Iles · 720 pages
One of the great unsolved mysteries of World War II is - to some people - a secret worth killing for... The greatest remaining mystery of World War II will be solved... West Berlin, 1987: Spandau Prison is being torn down. Amongst the rubble, the diary of enigmatic Nazi Rudolph Hess is found, and the secrets it reveals plunge the world into chaos. The Spandau Diary- what was in it? Why did the sec
The Crook Factory
Dan Simmons · 560 pages
Novelist Ernest Hemingway creates a spy ring in Cuba to combat German agents during World War II and the novel describes his adventures as he chases enemy submarines with his fishing boat. Narrating is an agent planted by the FBI to keep an eye on the ring, a man who never read a word of Hemingway. Famous people make appearances, including spy Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books. By the author
Zoo Station
David Downing · 293 pages
The first in the 'John Russel' series of novels, set in WWII Berlin.
Assignment in Brittany
Helen MacInnes · 336 pages
Where Eagles Dare
Alistair MacLean · 270 pages
One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.
The Sands of Sakkara
Glenn Meade · 448 pages
Glenn Meade's electrifying novels capture the intrigue of nations, the brutality of war, and the heroism of brave men and women. The Sands of Sakkara is his most satisfying novel yet-a heart-pounding thriller set against the backdrop of wartime Egypt, where a breathless chase across the arid desert explodes, as two people race against time to stop a dark plot in the heart of World War II... Onc
The Berlin Deception
Jeffrey Vanke · 297 pages
John Becker is hot on the trail of Adolf Hitler's fatal weakness, but he is also running and gunning for his hide and for the world. Hitler's Third Reich is rearming and planning for war. Becker has mere days to ward off disaster.
The Wolf's Hour
Robert McCammon · 480 pages
The Wolf's Hour is a 1989 WWII horror novel by Robert R. McCammon about Michael Gallatin, a British secret agent who is a werewolf, sent on a mission to infiltrate Nazi-occupied France to stop a plan that threatens the D-Day invasion. The book blends historical thriller, espionage, and werewolf fiction, detailing Gallatin's past and his current mission, which involves confronting the German spy wh
Enigma
Robert Harris · 384 pages
England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the lives of Allied sailors are in their hands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break Shark. And when br