Page-Turning Spy Novels
Uncover the clues in these tales of espionage. From classics by Graham Greene and John le Carré to real-life accounts of double agents, pick your poison when it comes to the perfect crime.
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by Lea Carpenter
Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: The gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special op.
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Argylle
by Elly Conway
One Russian magnate’s dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events that will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA’s most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special. Enter Argylle, a troubled agent with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world. If only he can save himself first …
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Oromay
by Baalu Girma
A journalist finds himself embroiled in a disastrous government campaign as well as a sweeping romance in this landmark English translation of Ethiopia’s most famous novel. Oromay became an instant sensation when first published in 1983 and was swiftly banned for its frank depiction of the regime. The author vanished soon thereafter; the consensus is that he was murdered in retaliation for Oromay. A timeless story about power and betrayal in love and war, the novel remains Girma’s masterpiece.
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Native Speaker
by Chang-rae Lee
Henry Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American – a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. Park’s harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is.
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American Spy
by Lauren Wilkinson
Inspired by true events, American Spy knits together a gripping spy thriller, a heartbreaking family drama, and a passionate romance, set during the Cold War.
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M, King’s Bodyguard
by Niall Leonard
A thrilling, “action-packed page-turner” (Wall Street Journal) based on a true story of anarchy and assassination in Edwardian London, centered around one detective’s mission to preserve the life of his king and prevent a bloody war in Europe.
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Killers of a Certain Age
by Deanna Raybourn
They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they’re sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.
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Alias Emma
by Ava Glass
In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city’s security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted by the hundreds of thousands of CCTV cameras that document every inch of the city’s streets? This will take all of Emma’s skills of disguise and subterfuge. But when Emma’s handler goes dark, there’s no one left to trust. And just one wrong move will get them both killed.
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The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick
by Joanna Quinn
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre in the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II – a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation.
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Forbidden City
by Vanessa Hua
Mei, a teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover – and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution – in this “masterful new novel” (The Washington Post). Forbidden City is an epic yet intimate portrayal of one of the world’s most powerful and least understood leaders during this extraordinarily turbulent period in modern Chinese history. Mei’s harrowing journey toward truth and disillusionment raises questions about power, manipulation, and belief, as seen through the eyes of a passionate teenage girl.
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The Ghosts of Paris
by Tara Moss
A thrilling tale of courage and secrets set in postwar London and Paris, in which a search for a missing husband puts investigator and former war reporter Billie Walker on a collision course with an underground network of Nazi criminals.
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The New Neighbor
by Karen Cleveland
Secrets, jealousy, and paranoia collide when a seemingly perfect new family moves into a neighborhood with ties to the CIA in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know.
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Rules of Engagement
by Stacey Abrams and Selena Montgomery
Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a top-secret intelligence organization, knows that her undercover work has its risks. So she doesn’t hesitate when asked to infiltrate Scimitar, the terrorist group that has stolen lethal environmental technology. But when she’s assigned a partner – brooding, sexy Adam Grayson – to pose as her lover, Raleigh discovers that the most dangerous risk of all … is falling in love.
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Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene
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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Red Widow
by Alma Katsu
An exhilarating spy thriller written by an intelligence veteran about two women CIA agents whose paths become intertwined around a threat to the Russia Division – one that’s coming from inside the agency. As these two women dig deeper and deeper, they’ll unearth a terrifying web of secrets within the department, but are they willing to unravel it?
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When We Left Cuba
by Chanel Cleeton
The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez – her family, her people, and her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro’s inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. But the wrong move could cost Beatriz everything – not just the island she loves, but also the man who has stolen her heart …
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The Perfume Thief
by Timothy Schaffert
A stylish, sexy page-turner set in Paris on the eve of World War II, where Clementine, a queer American ex-pat and notorious thief, is drawn out of retirement and into one last scam when the Nazis invade. Complete with romance, espionage, champagne towers, and haute couture, this full-tilt sensory experience is a dazzling portrait of the underground resistance of twentieth-century Paris and a passionate love letter to the power of beauty and community in the face of insidious hate.
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Silverview
by John le Carré
In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years–the secret world itself. Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.
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Under Occupation
by Alan Furst
Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. From “America’s preeminent spy novelist” (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secretly and bravely to defeat Hitler.
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A Map of Betrayal
by Ha Jin
Lilian Shang knew that her father, Gary, had been the most important Chinese spy ever caught in the United States. But when she discovers his diary after the death of her parents, its pages reveal the full pain and longing that his double life entailed – and point to a hidden second family that he’d left behind in China. As Lilian follows her father’s trail back into the Chinese provinces, she begins to grasp the extent of her father’s dilemma – torn between loyalty to his motherland and the love he came to feel for his adopted country. A stunning portrait of a multinational family and an unflinching inquiry into the meaning of patriotism.
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An Officer and a Spy
by Robert Harris
Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life in prison, and publicly stripped of his rank. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, an ambitious military officer who believes in Dreyfus’s guilt as staunchly as any member of the public. But when he is promoted to head of the French counter-espionage agency, Picquart finds evidence that a spy still remains at large in the military indicating that Dreyfus is innocent, compelling him to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself.
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A Woman of No Importance
by Sonia Purnell
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.” The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill’s “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” Based on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has uncovered an astounding and inspiring story of heroism, spycraft, resistance, and personal triumph over shocking adversity. A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman’s fierce persistence helped win the war.
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The Informer
by Akimitsu Takagi
When he loses his job as a trader after the stock market crashes, Shigeo Segawa is offered lucrative work as an industrial spy. How could he say no? He is soon assigned to seduce an ex-girlfriend and steal an important formula from her husband, who runs a large chemical company. But when the husband is found murdered, Segawa becomes the prime suspect.
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