“What are the best books about Espionage & Spying?” We looked at 465 of the top spy books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
Covertly slide into a world of secrets, lies, warring governments, and espionage. The top 18 books, all appearing 4 or more “Best Spy” lists, are ranked below by how many times they appeared and include images, descriptions, and links. The remaining 400+ titles, all appearing on 3 or fewer lists, as well as the articles we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
Happy Scrolling!
Lists It Appears On:
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white. Two men – a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama – are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life.
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This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA—known as “the Company” to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the ’50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy—and each other—in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, The Company confirms Littell’s place among the genre’s elite.
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He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama’s most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his “handlers” don’t realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he’ll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start to spin out of control, Harry is suddenly in over his head—thrown into a lethal maze of politics and espionage, with unthinkable consequences. . . .
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A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans.
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“His code name was “The Needle.” He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history. . . .
But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom—and win the war for the Nazis. . . . “
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“James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller, and the novel that President John F. Kennedy named one of his favorite books of all time.
SMERSH stands for “Death to Spies” and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose “defection” springs a trap designed with clockwork precision. Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee to the West on the Orient Express. Waiting in the shadows are two of Ian Fleming’s most vividly drawn villains: Red Grant, SMERSH’s deadliest assassin, and the sinister operations chief Rosa Klebb—five feet four inches of pure killing power.”
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Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London’s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be ‘a simple tale’ proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London’s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.
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Milo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a “tourist” for the CIA―an undercover agent with no home, no identity. Now he’s working a desk at the agency’s New York headquarters. But when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into a colleague, exposing new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who’s been behind it allfrom the very beginning.
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“The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world’s most heavily guarded man.
One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.”
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Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whoseprotagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring Michael Caine.
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“””I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused,”” Graham Greene’s narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous “”Quiet American”” of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas.
As young Pyle’s well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler’s motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler’s beautiful Vietnamese mistress.”
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MI6’s man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true…
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In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse—a desk job—Control offers him a unique opportunity for revenge. Assuming the guise of an embittered and dissolute ex-agent, Leamas is set up to trap Mundt, the deputy director of the East German Intelligence Service—with himself as the bait. In the background is George Smiley, ready to make the game play out just as Control wants.
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The classic spy novel by Erskine Childers, credited as the first work of modern espionage fiction. Set in pre-World War I Europe, two British subject, Carruthers and Davies, uncover secret German activity suggesting a prelude to war.
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His memory is a blank. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. His face has been altered by plastic surgery. A frame of microfilm has been surgically implanted in his hip. Even his name is a mystery. Marked for death, he is racing for survival through a bizarre world of murderous conspirators—led by Carlos, the world’s most dangerous assassin. Who is Jason Bourne? The answer may kill him.
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Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns later to find that another man has been found shot dead in the same building, apparently a suicide. Four days later Hannay finds the American stabbed to death…
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The man he knew as “Control” is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn’t quite ready for retirement—especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a small, loyal cadre, Smiley recognizes the hand of Karla—his Moscow Centre nemesis—and sets a trap to catch the traitor.
# | Book | Author | Lists |
(Titles Appear On 3 Lists Each) | |||
19 | A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal | Ben Macintyre | Early Bird Books |
Mal Warwick On Books | |||
Medium | |||
20 | Above Suspicion | Helen MacInnes | HiloBrow |
Share Ranks | |||
Crime Fiction Blog | |||
21 | Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal | Ben Macintyre | Early Bird Books |
Goodreads 2 | |||
Library Thing | |||
22 | Ashenden: Or the British Agent | W. Somerset Maugham | The Telegraph |
Cool Material | |||
The Guardian | |||
23 | Blowback | Valerie Plame and Sarah Lovett | Cool Material |
Oregon Live | |||
The Big Thrill | |||
24 | Casino Royale | Ian Fleming | Cool Material |
Goodreads | |||
Goodreads 2 | |||
25 | Death of a Citizen | Donald Hamilton | HiloBrow |
The Culture Trip | |||
Flavorwire | |||
26 | Masquerade | Gayle Lynds | Share Ranks |
Crime Fiction Blog | |||
Bookbub | |||
27 | Mexico Set | Len Deighton | NPR |
Goodreads | |||
Goodreads 2 | |||
28 | Operation Mincemeat | Ben Macintyre | The Week |
Library Thing | |||
Mal Warwick On Books | |||
29 | Red Sparrow | Jason Matthews | Oregon Live |
Bookbub | |||
Goodreads | |||
30 | Six Days of the Condor | James Grady | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
HiloBrow | |||
31 | Slow Horses | Mick Herron | Addictive Boks |
The Telegraph | |||
Medium | |||
32 | The Constant Gardener | John le Carré | Five Books |
Goodreads | |||
Goodreads 2 | |||
33 | The Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | HiloBrow |
Crime Fiction Blog | |||
Bookbub | |||
34 | The Human Factor | Graham Greene | The Week |
Goodreads 2 | |||
Electric Lit | |||
35 | The Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy | Flavorwire |
Goodreads | |||
Goodreads 2 | |||
36 | The Kill Artist | Daniel Silva | NPR |
Goodreads | |||
Goodreads 2 | |||
37 | The Little Drummer Girl | John LeCarre | WHSmith |
Goodreads | |||
Goodreads 2 | |||
38 | The Manchurian Candidate | Richard Condon | Addictive Boks |
Goodreads 2 | |||
Flavorwire | |||
39 | The Spy who Loved Me | Ian Fleming | Share Ranks |
Crime Fiction Blog | |||
Goodreads 2 | |||
40 | The Unlikely Spy | Daniel Silva | Share Ranks |
Crime Fiction Blog | |||
Goodreads 2 | |||
(Titles Appear On 2 Lists Each) | |||
41 | A Death in Vienna | Daniel Silva | NPR |
Goodreads 2 | |||
42 | A Murder of Quality | John le Carré | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
43 | A Perfect Spy | John le Carre | Oregon Live |
Goodreads | |||
44 | Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA | Morten Storm | Mal Warwick On Books |
The Guardian 2 | |||
45 | Assignment in Brittany | HiloBrow | |
The Telegraph | |||
46 | At Risk | Stella Rimington | Oregon Live |
Bookbub | |||
47 | Bad Luck and Trouble | Lee Child | Book Browse |
Goodreads | |||
48 | Call for the Dead | John le Carré | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
49 | Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan Universe, #6) | Tom Clancy | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
50 | Close Quarters | Adrian Magson | The Big Thrill |
The Big Thrill | |||
51 | Code Name Verity | Elizabeth Wein | Bookbub |
Cheshire Library Blog | |||
52 | Dark Star (Night Soldiers, #2) | Alan Furst | The Strand Magazine |
Goodreads 2 | |||
53 | Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan Universe, #8) | Tom Clancy | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
54 | Deception | Adrian Magson | The Big Thrill |
The Big Thrill | |||
55 | Declare | Tim Powers | Best Science Fiction Books |
Medium | |||
56 | Doctor No (James Bond, #6) | Ian Fleming | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
57 | For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8) | Ian Fleming | HiloBrow |
Goodreads 2 | |||
58 | Goldfinger (James Bond, #7) | Ian Fleming | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
59 | Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) | Martin Cruz Smith | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
60 | Greenmantle (Richard Hannay #2) | John Buchan | Goodreads 2 |
HiloBrow | |||
61 | I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim, #1) | Terry Hayes | Goodreads |
Book Browse | |||
62 | Jackdaws | Ken Follett | Book Browse |
Goodreads 2 | |||
63 | Journey Into Fear | Eric Ambler | The Telegraph |
Goodreads 2 | |||
64 | Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2) | Ian Fleming | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
65 | London Match | Len Deighton | NPR |
Goodreads 2 | |||
66 | Morning Spy, Evening Spy | Colin MacKinnon | Share Ranks |
Crime Fiction Blog | |||
67 | Moscow Rules (Gabriel Allon, #8) | Daniel Silva | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
68 | N or M? | Agatha Christie | HiloBrow |
Goodreads 2 | |||
69 | Night Heron | Adam Brooke | The Strand Magazine |
Medium | |||
70 | Night Soldiers | Alan Furst | WHSmith |
Goodreads | |||
71 | On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (James Bond, #11) | Ian Fleming | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
72 | Red Harvest | Dashiell Hammett | Oregon Live |
The Guardian | |||
73 | Retribution | Adrian Magson | The Big Thrill |
The Big Thrill | |||
74 | Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Imperative | Eric Van Lustbader | The Big Thrill |
The Big Thrill | |||
75 | Shibumi | Trevanian | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
76 | Smiley’s People | John le Carré | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
77 | The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal | David E. Hoffman | Early Bird Books |
Mal Warwick On Books | |||
78 | The Black Tulip | Milt Bearden | Oregon Live |
Cool Material | |||
79 | The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne, #3) | Robert Ludlum | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
80 | The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan Universe, #5) | Tom Clancy | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
81 | The Charm School | Nelson DeMille | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
82 | The Code-Breakers | David Kahn | Tor |
Library Thing | |||
83 | The Dogs of War | Frederick Forsyth | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
84 | The Eiger Sanction | HiloBrow | |
Share Ranks | |||
85 | The Foreign Correspondent (Night Soldiers, #9) | Alan Furst | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
86 | The Fourth Protocol | Frederick Forsyth | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
87 | The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium #2) | Stieg Larsson | Goodreads 2 |
Goodreads | |||
88 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) | Stieg Larsson | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
89 | The Good Spy | Jeffrey Layton | The Big Thrill |
Mal Warwick On Books | |||
90 | The Great Impersonation | Edward Phillips Oppenheim | HiloBrow |
NPR | |||
91 | The Honourable Schoolboy | John le Carré | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
92 | The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington | Jennet Conant | Goodreads 2 |
Library Thing | |||
93 | The Key to Rebecca | Ken Follett | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
94 | The Looking Glass War | John le Carré | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
95 | The Messenger | Daniel Silva | Book Browse |
Goodreads | |||
96 | The Ministry of Fear | Graham Greene | HiloBrow |
Goodreads | |||
97 | The Moscow Club | Joseph Finder | Share Ranks |
Crime Fiction Blog | |||
98 | The Night Manager | John le Carré | Goodreads 2 |
Independent | |||
99 | The Odessa File | Frederick Forsyth | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
100 | The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon, #10) | Daniel Silva | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
101 | The Russia House | John le Carré | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
102 | The Saladin Strategy | Norm Clark | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
103 | The Spy; or, A Tale of the Neutral Ground | James Fenimore Cooper | Medium |
The Guardian | |||
104 | The Sum of All Fears | Tom Clancy | Addictive Boks |
Goodreads | |||
105 | The Tears of Autumn | Charles McCarry | Medium |
NPR | |||
106 | The Travelers | Chris Pavone | The Big Thrill |
Independent | |||
107 | Thunderball (James Bond, #9) | Ian Fleming | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
108 | Too Bad to Die | Francine Mathews | The Big Thrill |
Book Browse | |||
109 | Tsunami Connection | Michael James Gallagher | Goodreads |
Goodreads 2 | |||
110 | Where Eagles Dare | Alistair MacLean | Share Ranks |
Goodreads 2 | |||
111 | Wild Bill Donovan | Douglas Waller | The Week |
Mal Warwick On Books | |||
112 | You Only Live Twice | Ian Fleming | Oregon Live |
Goodreads 2 | |||
(Titles Appear On 1 Lists Each) | |||
113 | 1000 Yards | Book Content Ratings | |
114 | 61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14) | Lee Child | Goodreads |
115 | 9800 Savage Road | M. E. Harrigan | The Big Thrill |
116 | A Colder War | Charles Cumming | Book Browse |
117 | A Corpse in the Koryo | James Church | Oregon Live |
118 | A Delicate Truth | John Le Carré | Electric Lit |
119 | A Kill in the Morning | Graeme Shimmin | The Big Thrill |
120 | A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII | Sarah Helm | Library Thing |
121 | A Line in the Sand | Gerald Seymour | Addictive Boks |
122 | A Man Called Intrepid | William Stevenson | Library Thing |
123 | A Murder of Crows | Terrence McCauley | The Big Thrill |
124 | A Prince of the Captivity | HiloBrow | |
125 | A Rough Shoot | HiloBrow | |
126 | A Small Death in Lisbon | Robert Wilson | Goodreads 2 |
127 | A Small Town in Germany | John le Carré | Goodreads 2 |
128 | A Spy | Charles Cumming | Book Browse |
129 | A Spy for All Seasons | Duane R Clarridge | The Guardian 2 |
130 | A Spy in the Ointment | Donald Westlake | NPR |
131 | A Taste For Death | The Telegraph | |
132 | A Time to Die (Victor) | Tom Wood | Comparaboo |
133 | A Time to Kill | HiloBrow | |
134 | Absolute Friends | John Le Carré | Addictive Boks |
135 | Absolute Power | David Baldacci | Goodreads |
136 | Afraid of the Dark | James Grippando | The Big Thrill |
137 | After the Fall: A Prelude to the Senator’s Son (Among Wolves) | Book Content Ratings | |
138 | Agent in Place | Helen MacInnes | Electric Lit |
139 | Agents of Innocence | David Ignatius | The Guardian 2 |
140 | Airframe | Michael Crichton | Goodreads 2 |
141 | American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1) | Vince Flynn | Goodreads |
142 | An Ordinary Spy: A Novel | Joseph Weisberg | Book Browse |
143 | And West Is West | Ron Childress | Book Browse |
144 | Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) | Dan Brown | Goodreads 2 |
145 | Anonymous Sources | Mary Louise Kelly | The Big Thrill |
146 | Arctic Rising | Tobias Buckell | Best Science Fiction Books |
147 | Background to Danger. | HiloBrow | |
148 | Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941-1945 | Leo Marks | Library Thing |
149 | Billion-Dollar Brain | Len Deighton | Best Science Fiction Books |
150 | Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives | Sinclair McKay | Independent |
151 | Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage | Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew with Annette Lawrence Drew | Early Bird Books |
152 | Blood Oil | James Phelan | The Big Thrill |
153 | Blood Tattoo | Jude Hardin | The Big Thrill |
154 | Body of Secrets | James Bamford | Tor |
155 | Bodyguard of Deception (Book 1 of the World War Two Trilogy) | Samuel Marquis | Goodreads 2 |
156 | Bonus: They Call Me Alexandra Gastone | T.A. Maclagan | Bookbub |
157 | Brandenburg Gate | Henry Porter | Book Browse |
158 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Goodreads 2 |
159 | Bridge of Spies | Giles Whittell | Library Thing |
160 | Brute Force | Marc Cameron | The Big Thrill |
161 | Caasino Royale | Ian Fleming | The Week |
162 | Cause for Alarm | Eric Ambler | WHSmith |
163 | Choice of Enemies | M.A. Richards | The Big Thrill |
164 | Choice of Weapons | Raymond Benson | The Big Thrill |
165 | Cloaks and Veils | J.C. Carleson | The Big Thrill |
166 | Code Name Jack Rabbit | Elizabeth Noble | The Big Thrill |
167 | Coercion | Tim Tigner | The Big Thrill |
168 | Cold Black | Alex Shaw | The Big Thrill |
169 | Cold East | Alex Shaw | The Big Thrill |
170 | Consent to Kill (Mitch Rapp, #8) | Vince Flynn | Goodreads |
171 | Contract to Kill | Andrew Peterson | The Big Thrill |
172 | Crown of Slaves | David Weber | Best Science Fiction Books |
173 | Dark Asset | Adrian Magson | The Big Thrill |
174 | Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War | Fred Kaplan | Mal Warwick On Books |
175 | Dark Voyage (Night Soldiers, #8) | Alan Furst | Goodreads 2 |
176 | Day of the Jackal | Share Ranks | |
177 | Dead Line | Stella Rimington | Addictive Boks |
178 | Deadly Trust | JJ Cooper | The Big Thrill |
179 | Death in Budapest | James L. Ross | The Big Thrill |
180 | Decoded | The Telegraph | |
181 | Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4) | Ian Fleming | Goodreads 2 |
182 | Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2) | Lee Child | Goodreads |
183 | Disciples of Death | Paul Howard | The Big Thrill |
184 | Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies | Ben McIntyre | Mal Warwick On Books |
185 | Elusive Isabe | HiloBrow | |
186 | End of Secrets | Ryan Quinn | The Big Thrill |
187 | Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, #1) | Orson Scott Card | Goodreads 2 |
188 | Epitaph for a Spy | HiloBrow | |
189 | Europe in Autumn | Dave Hutchinson | Medium |
190 | Execution (Harry Tate 5) | Adrian Magson | The Big Thrill |
191 | Executive Orders (Jack Ryan Universe, #9) | Tom Clancy | Goodreads |
192 | Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp, #11) | Vince Flynn | Goodreads |
193 | Fallout: The True Story of the CIA’s Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking | Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz | The Guardian 2 |
194 | Fear and Spear | The Telegraph | |
195 | Flashback | Jenny Siler | Bookbub |
196 | Flight From Berlin: A Novel | David John | Book Browse |
197 | Forced To Kill | Andrew Peterson | The Big Thrill |
198 | From London Far | HiloBrow | |
199 | Funeral in Berlin | Len Deighton | WHSmith |
200 | George Smiley | John Le Carre | Best Science Fiction Books |
201 | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 | Steve Coll | Library Thing |
202 | Go Softly All My Years (Braddock Family Book 1) | Book Content Ratings | |
203 | Gravity’s Rainbow | HiloBrow | |
204 | H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education | Mark Walden | Cheshire Library Blog |
205 | Hard Cover | Adrian Magson | The Big Thrill |
206 | Hard Kill (Riz #1) | Charlie Flowers | Goodreads 2 |
207 | Hard Road (A Jon Reznick Thriller) | J. B. Turner | Comparaboo |
208 | HARLOT’S GHOST | Norman Mailer | Crime Fiction Blog |
209 | Harriet the Spy | HiloBrow | |
210 | Hazardous Duty | E. Howard Hunt | Oregon Live |
211 | His Last Bow: 8 Stories | Arthur Conan Doyle | Goodreads 2 |
212 | Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Story of Wilhelm Canaris, the Most Dangerous Intelligence Man of WWII | Richard Bassett | Early Bird Books |
213 | Homeland: Carrie’s Run | Andrew Kaplan | The Big Thrill |
214 | Homeland: Saul’s Game | Andrew Kaplan | The Big Thrill |
215 | Hoodwink | Dominic Torr | The Big Thrill |
216 | Hopscotch | HiloBrow | |
217 | Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy | The Culture Trip |
218 | Hunter: Intrepid 2 | Chris Allen | The Big Thrill |
219 | Huntingtower | HiloBrow | |
220 | I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You | Ally Carter | Cheshire Library Blog |
221 | Ice Station Zebra | Alistair McLean | Flavorwire |
222 | In Pursuit of Platinum: The Shocking Secret of World War II | Vic Robbie | Goodreads |
223 | Independence Hall | Roland Smith | Cheshire Library Blog |
224 | Inside the Company: CIA Diary | Philip Agee | The Guardian 2 |
225 | Intelligence | Susan Hasler | Oregon Live |
226 | Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies | Gordon Corera | Independent |
227 | Ipcress File | Share Ranks | |
228 | Istanbul Passage | Joseph Kanon | Electric Lit |
229 | It Can’t Always be Caviar | Johannes Mario Simmel | NPR |
230 | Jack 1939 | Francine Mathews | The Big Thrill |
231 | James Bond | Ian Fleming | Best Science Fiction Books |
232 | John le Carré: The Biography | Adam Sisman | Independent |
233 | Jump Cut | Libby Fischer Hellmann | The Big Thrill |
234 | Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1) | Lee Child | Goodreads |
235 | Knight Without Armour | HiloBrow | |
236 | Layover in Dubai | Dan Fesperman | The Big Thrill |
237 | Legends | Robert Little | Medium |
238 | Lehrter Station: A John Russell Thriller | David Downing | Book Browse |
239 | Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War | Karen Abbott | Early Bird Books |
240 | Lies in Wait | Donna Del Oro | The Big Thrill |
241 | Los Alamos | The Telegraph | |
242 | Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace | Peter Janney | Mal Warwick On Books |
243 | Mask of Treachery | John Costello | Library Thing |
244 | Mathias Sandorf | HiloBrow | |
245 | Memoirs of a Spymaster | Markus Wolf | Tor |
246 | Memorial Day (Mitch Rapp, #7) | Vince Flynn | Goodreads |
247 | Miami Spy Games: Russian Zombie Gun, Part One | Armand Rosamilia | Goodreads 2 |
248 | Michael Strogoff | HiloBrow | |
249 | Mission to Paris: A Novel | Alan Furst | Book Browse |
250 | MJ-12: Inception | Michael J. Martinez | The Big Thrill |
251 | Moonraker (James Bond, #3) | Ian Fleming | Goodreads 2 |
252 | Mr Norris Changes Trains | HiloBrow | |
253 | Mr. Standfast | HiloBrow | |
254 | My Five Cambridge Friends | Yuri Modin | The Guardian 2 |
255 | My Silent War | Kim Philby | WHSmith |
256 | Net Impact | Donald J. Bingle | The Big Thrill |
257 | No Way Out | Alan Jacobson | The Big Thrill |
258 | Nomad | James Swallow | The Big Thrill |
259 | Nonofficial Asset | William Sewell | Goodreads |
260 | One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9) | Lee Child | Goodreads |
261 | Operation Pax | HiloBrow | |
262 | Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting | John Shiffman | Mal Warwick On Books |
263 | Our Paths to Glory | The Telegraph | |
264 | Pandora’s Temple | Jon Land | The Big Thrill |
265 | Papillon | Henri Charrière | Goodreads 2 |
266 | Passenger to Frankfurt | Agatha Christie | Goodreads 2 |
267 | Patriot Act | James Phelan | The Big Thrill |
268 | Patriot Games (Jack Ryan Universe, #2) | Tom Clancy | Goodreads |
269 | Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism | Karen M. Paget | Mal Warwick On Books |
270 | Plum Island (John Corey, #1) | Nelson DeMille | Goodreads |
271 | Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2) | Martin Cruz Smith | Goodreads 2 |
272 | Portrait of a Spy (Gabriel Allon, #11) | Daniel Silva | Goodreads |
273 | Proof of Life | Misty Evans | The Big Thrill |
274 | Readers’ Opinion: | Nature: A Novel | Book Browse |
275 | Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan Universe, #3) | Tom Clancy | Goodreads |
276 | Red Sky | Chris Goff | The Big Thrill |
277 | Red Station | Adrian Magson | The Big Thrill |
278 | Red Storm Rising | Tom Clancy | Goodreads |
279 | Sabotage | Matt Cook | The Big Thrill |
280 | Sandstorm | Alan L. Lee | The Big Thrill |
281 | Saving the Queen | William F. Buckley, Jr. | Oregon Live |
282 | Scorpion Betrayal | Andrew Kaplan | The Big Thrill |
283 | Scorpion Deception | Andrew Kaplan | The Big Thrill |
284 | Scorpion Winter | Andrew Kaplan | The Big Thrill |
285 | Sekret | Lindsay Smith | Bookbub |
286 | Separation of Power (Mitch Rapp, #5) | Vince Flynn | Goodreads |
287 | Seventeen Moments of Spring | The Telegraph | |
288 | sex, lies and videotape | Five Books | |
289 | Shadow Knight’s Mate | Jay Brandon | The Big Thrill |
290 | Shadows and Echoes | James Cabot | The Big Thrill |
291 | Silent Assassin | Leo J. Maloney | The Big Thrill |
292 | Sin | J.M. LeDuc | The Big Thrill |
293 | Spies of the Balkans | Share Ranks | |
294 | Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer | Peter Wright | Library Thing |
295 | Spy For Hire | Dan Mayland | The Big Thrill |
296 | Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda | Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry R. Schelsinger | Early Bird Books |
297 | Stalin’s Englishman | Andrew Lownie | Independent |
298 | Stormbreaker | Anthony Horowitz | Cheshire Library Blog |
299 | Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers | James B. Donovan | Early Bird Books |
300 | Sub Rosa: The O.S.S. and American Espionage | Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden | Early Bird Books |
301 | Sweet Tooth: A Novel | Ian McEwan | Book Browse |
302 | Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring | Gordon W. Prange with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon | Early Bird Books |
303 | Term Limits | Vince Flynn | Goodreads |
304 | Termination Orders | Leo J. Maloney | The Big Thrill |
305 | Thank You, Mr. Moto | HiloBrow | |
306 | The 231 Club: My Ten Year Journey From Therapist to CIA Courier and Sanctioned Kills – A True Story | J. Bartell | Goodreads 2 |
307 | The Accident | Chris Pavone | The Big Thrill |
308 | The African Contract | Arthur Kerns | The Big Thrill |
309 | The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA | John Ranelagh | Tor |
310 | The Altar Girl | Orest Stelmach | The Big Thrill |
311 | The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel | Uri Bar-Joseph | Mal Warwick On Books |
312 | The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service | Gordon Corera | Early Bird Books |
313 | The Baroness | Paul Kenyon | Best Science Fiction Books |
314 | The Bourne Legacy (Jason Bourne, #4) | Eric Van Lustbader | Goodreads |
315 | The Bourne Retribution | Eric Van Lustbader | The Big Thrill |
316 | The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2) | Robert Ludlum | Goodreads |
317 | The Bourne Trilogy (Jason Bourne, #1-3) | Robert Ludlum | Goodreads |
318 | The Boys From Brazil | Ira Levin | Goodreads 2 |
319 | The Brotherhood of the Rose. | Share Ranks | |
320 | The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War | Stephen Kinzer | Mal Warwick On Books |
321 | The Burning Gates | Parker Bilal | Independent |
322 | The Calculus Affair | HiloBrow | |
323 | The Camel Club (Camel Club, #1) | David Baldacci | Goodreads |
324 | The Chancellor ManuscriptBantam This is one of Ludlum’s earlier works | Robert Ludlum | Addictive Boks |
325 | The Climate of Treason | Andrew Boyle | Library Thing |
326 | The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography | Simon Singh | Goodreads 2 |
327 | The Cold War Swap | Share Ranks | |
328 | The Colonel’s Mistake | Dan Mayland | The Big Thrill |
329 | The Confidential Agent | Graham Greene | Oregon Live |
330 | The Crook Factory | Dan Simmons | Medium |
331 | The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) | Dan Brown | Goodreads |
332 | The Dangerous Otto Katz: The Many Lives of a Soviet Spy | Jonathan Miles | Library Thing |
333 | The Dark Frontier | HiloBrow | |
334 | The Darkling Spy | Edward Wilson | Medium |
335 | The Defector (Gabriel Allon, #9) | Daniel Silva | Goodreads |
336 | The Delphi Bloodline and A Bodyguard of Lies | Donna Del Oro | The Big Thrill |
337 | The Devil’s Kingdom: Part 2 of the best | Scott Mariani | Comparaboo |
338 | The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government | David Talbot | Mal Warwick On Books |
339 | The Dogs of Riga | Henning Mankell | Addictive Boks |
340 | The Dubai Betrayal | Jeremy Burns | The Big Thrill |
341 | The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1) | Jack Higgins | Goodreads |
342 | The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2) | Daniel Silva | Goodreads |
343 | The English Girl: A Novel | Daniel Silva | Addictive Boks |
344 | The English Spy | Daniel Silva | Bookbub |
345 | The Excoms | Brett Battles | The Big Thrill |
346 | The Execution Channel | Ken MacLeod | Best Science Fiction Books |
347 | The Expats | Chris Pavone | This Is Writing |
348 | The Fabulous Flight | HiloBrow | |
349 | The Faithful Spy (John Wells, #1) | Alex Berenson | Goodreads |
350 | The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage | Robert Lindsey | Early Bird Books |
351 | The Fallen Angel (Gabriel Allon, #12) | Daniel Silva | Goodreads |
352 | The Fist of God | Frederick Forsyth | Goodreads 2 |
353 | The Flowery War | Tim Anderson | Best Science Fiction Books |
354 | The Forever Spy | Jeffrey Layton | The Big Thrill |
355 | The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay: The Thirty-Nine Steps / Greenmantle / Mr | John Buchan | Addictive Boks |
356 | The Ghost | Robert Harris | Book Browse |
357 | The Girl Hunters | Mickey Spillane | Flavorwire |
358 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3) | Stieg Larsson | Goodreads 2 |
359 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | Goodreads 2 |
360 | The Golden Hour | Todd Moss | The Big Thrill |
361 | The Good Traitor | Ryan Quinn | The Big Thrill |
362 | The Hacker Chronicles | Patrick Oster | The Big Thrill |
363 | The Impossible Virgin | Peter O’Donnell | Flavorwire |
364 | The Informer | Liam O’Flaherty | The Guardian |
365 | The Innocent | Ian McEwan | The Culture Trip |
366 | The Innocent (Will Robie, #1) | David Baldacci | Goodreads |
367 | The Innocent Spy: A Mystery | Laura Wilson | Book Browse |
368 | The Intelligencer | Leslie Silbert | Bookbub |
369 | The Island of Sheep | HiloBrow | |
370 | The Journeying Boy | HiloBrow | |
371 | The Last Man (Mitch Rapp, #13) | Vince Flynn | Goodreads |
372 | The Laughing Monsters | Denis Johnson | Book Browse |
373 | The Lone Wolf Agenda | Joseph Badal | The Big Thrill |
374 | The Lost Codex | Alan Jacobson | The Big Thrill |
375 | The Main Enemy | Milton Bearden and James Risen | The Guardian 2 |
376 | The Malice of Fortune | Michael Ennis | Book Browse |
377 | The Man in Red Square | Bill Moody | The Big Thrill |
378 | The Man Who Was Thursday. | HiloBrow | |
379 | The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13) | Ian Fleming | Goodreads 2 |
380 | The Marathon Man | Share Ranks | |
381 | The Mask for Dimitrios / A Coffin for Dimitrios | Eric Ambler | Addictive Boks |
382 | The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby | Phillip Knightley | Library Thing |
383 | The Matarese Circle (Matarese #1) | Robert Ludlum | Goodreads 2 |
384 | The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu | HiloBrow | |
385 | The Nearest Exit (The Tourist, #2) | Olen Steinhauer | Goodreads 2 |
386 | The New Spies | James Adams | Tor |
387 | The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1) | James Morcan | Goodreads |
388 | The Once and Future Spy | Robert Littell | NPR |
389 | The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) | James Morcan | Goodreads |
390 | The Orphan Uprising (The Orphan Trilogy, #3) | James Morcan | Goodreads |
391 | The Other Side of Silence | Philip Kerr | Independent |
392 | The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue | Frederick Forsyth | Independent |
393 | The Path of the King | HiloBrow | |
394 | The Perfect English Spy by Tom Bower | Five Books | |
395 | The Polish Officer (Night Soldiers, #3) | Alan Furst | Goodreads 2 |
396 | The Prisoner of Cell 25 | Richard Paul Evans | Cheshire Library Blog |
397 | The Prisoner of Guantanamo | Dan Fesperman | Book Browse |
398 | The Quest of the Sacred Slippe | HiloBrow | |
399 | The Quiller Memorandum | Adam Hall | Goodreads 2 |
400 | The Rendition | Albert Ashforth | The Big Thrill |
401 | The Riddle of Sands: A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved | Erskine Childers | The Culture Trip |
402 | The Riviera Contract | Arthur Kerns | The Big Thrill |
403 | The Rules of Deception | Christopher Reich | This Is Writing |
404 | The Russian Bride | Ed Kovacs | The Big Thrill |
405 | The Sadness of the Samurai: A Novel | Victor del Arbol | Book Browse |
406 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | HiloBrow | |
407 | The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence #1) | Agatha Christie | Goodreads 2 |
408 | The Secret Angent | The Telegraph | |
409 | The Secret Vanguard | HiloBrow | |
410 | The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 | Max Hastings | Mal Warwick On Books |
411 | The Short Drop | Matthew FitzSimmon | The Big Thrill |
412 | The Silenced | Brett Battles | The Big Thrill |
413 | The Soul of Viktor Tronko | David Quammen | NPR |
414 | The Spanish Game: A Novel | Charles Cumming | Book Browse |
415 | The Spies of Warsaw (Night Soldiers, #10) | Alan Furst | Goodreads 2 |
416 | The Spies Who Never Were | Hervie Haufler | Early Bird Books |
417 | The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Book Browse |
418 | The Thief Taker | C.S. Quinn | Comparaboo |
419 | The Third Man | Graham Greene | Goodreads |
420 | The Third Option (Mitch Rapp, #4) | Vince Flynn | Goodreads |
421 | The Three Hostages | HiloBrow | |
422 | The Three Musketeers | HiloBrow | |
423 | The Three-Nine Line | David Freed | Book Browse |
424 | The Toymaker | Chuck Barrett | The Big Thrill |
425 | The Trinity Six | Charles Cumming | Book Browse |
426 | The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA | Joby Warrick | Early Bird Books |
427 | The Ultimate Threat | James Osborne | The Big Thrill |
428 | The Ultimatum | Karen Robards | The Big Thrill |
429 | The Unconquerable | HiloBrow | |
430 | The Valley of Shadows | Mark Terry | The Big Thrill |
431 | The Venetian Affair | HiloBrow | |
432 | The Walking Dead | Gerald Seymour | Book Browse |
433 | The Watchman | Adrian Magson | The Big Thrill |
434 | The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth | Mark Mazzetti | Mal Warwick On Books |
435 | The Wayward Spy | Share Ranks | |
436 | The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb | Neal Bascomb | Early Bird Books |
437 | The Woman Who Knew Too Much | Tom Savage | The Big Thrill |
438 | The Yemen Contract | Arthur Kerns | The Big Thrill |
439 | Their Trade is Treachery | Five Books | |
440 | Then We Take Berlin | John Lawton | Book Browse |
441 | They Came to Baghdad | Agatha Christie | Goodreads 2 |
442 | They Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John Le Carré | Bookbub |
443 | Think Fast, Mr. Moto | HiloBrow | |
444 | Time Of Attack | Marc Cameron | The Big Thrill |
445 | Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State | Dana Priest and William M. Arkin | Mal Warwick On Books |
446 | Tracers | Adrian Magson | The Big Thrill |
447 | Traitor’s Purse | HiloBrow | |
448 | Transfer of Power (Mitch Rapp, #3) | Vince Flynn | Goodreads |
449 | Trigger Mortis | Anthony Horowitz | Independent |
450 | Tunnel Vision | Susan Adrian | Bookbub |
451 | Turing’s Delirium | Edmundo Paz Soldan | Book Browse |
452 | Twice a Spy | Keith Thomson | The Big Thrill |
453 | Under Fire | Grant Blackwood | The Big Thrill |
454 | Up Close: Eric Van Lustbader | Jessica Driscoll | The Big Thrill |
455 | Up Country | Nelson DeMille | Goodreads |
456 | Wanderer | Sterling Hayden | The Guardian |
457 | When Eight Bells Toll | Alistair MacLean | Goodreads 2 |
458 | Winter In Madrid | C.J. Sansom | Book Browse |
459 | Winter Kills | HiloBrow | |
460 | Winterlong | Mason Cross | The Big Thrill |
461 | Without Remorse (Jack Ryan Universe, #1) | Tom Clancy | Goodreads |
462 | Woke Up Lonely | Fiona Maazel | Book Browse |
463 | Written in Fire | Marcus Sakey | The Big Thrill |
464 | Yesterday’s Spy | HiloBrow | |
465 | Zero World | Jason M. Hough | The Big Thrill |
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Addictive Boks | Spy & Intelligence Thrillers |
Best Science Fiction Books | Popular Spyfi Science Fiction |
Book Browse | Spy, Military, Govt & High Tech Thrillers |
Book Content Ratings | 3 Best espionage Books For Teens |
Bookbub | 14 Thrillers with Spies, Lies, & Alibis |
Cheshire Library Blog | Young Adult Spy Novels That Adults Can Enjoy Too |
Comparaboo | The 4 Best Espionage Books |
Cool Material | 5 Spy Novels Written By Actual Spies |
Crime Fiction Blog | TOP 15 SPY NOVELS |
Early Bird Books | 15 Nonfiction Spy Books More Thrilling Than John le Carré |
Electric Lit | The Literary Spy Novel: Five Recommendations |
Five Books | Charles Cumming recommends the best books on Espionage |
Flavorwire | 10 of the Greatest Cold War Spy Novels |
Goodreads | Best Spy Novels |
Goodreads 2 | Espionage |
HiloBrow | 61 Espionage Adventures |
Independent | 10 best spy novels |
Independent 2 | 10 best spy books |
Library Thing | Best Espionage (Non-Fiction) |
Mal Warwick On Books | 17 good nonfiction books about espionage |
Medium | The Ten Best Spy Novels you never heard of |
NPR | Librarian’s Picks: The Best in Spy Fiction |
Oregon Live | 16 best spy novels by real-life spies, from Graham Greene to John le Carre |
Share Ranks | Best Spy Novels Ever |
The Big Thrill | Espionage Thrillers |
The Culture Trip | 13 Great Spy Novels That Aren’t James Bond |
The Guardian | The top 10 classic spy novels |
The Guardian 2 | Top 10 books about spies |
The Strand Magazine | TOP TEN SPY NOVELS OF ALL TIME |
The Telegraph | The 20 best spy novels of all time |
The Week | Jeffery Deaver’s 6 favorite espionage books |
This Is Writing | Best Espionage Book Recommendations |
Tor | Five Books About Espionage |
WHSmith | Joseph Kanon: Top 10 Spy Novels |
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