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15 Best Spy Novels in 2021

Unity Running in the Field
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by John le Carré

Nat, a 47-year veteran of the British Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as a cop-cop are over. But with the growing threat from the Moscow center, the office still has a job for him. Nat will take over The Haven, a defunct London General substation with a gang of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on the Russian department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with relentless suspense by the greatest chronicler of our time. 

  • The Secret Agent

    by Joseph Conrad

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    This intense 1907 thriller - a precursor to works by Graham Greene and John le Carré - involves a British double agent who infiltrates a clique of anarchists. Conrad examines political and criminal intrigue in a modern society. 


  • The Secrets We Kept

    by Lara Prescott

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    An exciting story of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty and of sacrifice - inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Dr. Zhivago.


  • The Day of the Jackal

    by Frederick Forsyth

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    The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque gray eyes. A murderer at the top of his profession. A man who doesn't know any secret service in the world. A hit man with a contract to kill the most heavily guarded man in the world.

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  • American Spy

    by Lauren Wilkinson

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    Inspired by real-life events, American Spy knits together a gripping spy thriller, a heartbreaking family drama and a passionate romance set during the Cold War.

  • Life Undercover

    by Amaryllis Fox

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    Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the CIA's most elite clandestine ops unit, chasing the world's most dangerous terrorists in 16 countries while she married and gave birth to a daughter.

  • Our Man in Havana

    by Graham Greene

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    The man from MI6 in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum cleaner salesman who became a reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files fake reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and comes up with military installations based on vacuum cleaner designs. Then his stories start to become alarmingly true…

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  • The Hunt for Red October

    by Tom Clancy

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    Somewhere under the icy Atlantic Ocean, a Soviet sub-commander has just made a fateful decision. Red October is moving west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. The hunt for the highly advanced nuclear submarine is on - and only one man can find her. Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when hidden photos of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes hide and seek game played by two world powers - a game that could end in a total war.

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  • A Woman of No Importance

    by Sonia Purnell

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    Based on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has uncovered for the first time the entire secret life of Virginia Hall - an amazing and inspiring tale of heroism, espionage, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity. A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how a woman's persistence helped win World War II.

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  • Eye of the Needle

    by Ken Follett

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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 target of the most desperate manhunt in history. But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if affected, would ensure his freedom - and win the war for the Nazis.

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  • Los Alamos

    by Joseph Kanon
    It's the spring of 1945. And Michael Connolly has been sent to Los Alamos to investigate the murder of a security guard at the Manhattan Project. But amid the glittering cocktail parties and dizzying genius, Connolly will find more than he expected. Sleeping in a dead man's bed and making love to another man's wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man's land of Los Alamos. Because in this place of discovery and secrecy, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a murderer.

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  • The Bourne Identity

    by Robert Ludlum
    His memory is empty. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean. His face has been changed by plastic surgery. A microfilm frame has been surgically implanted in his hip. Even his name is a mystery. Marked for death, he races for survival through a bizarre world of murderous conspirators, led by Carlos, the world's most dangerous assassin. Who is Jason Bourne? The answer can kill him.

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  • Must Know

    by Karen Cleveland
    Vivian Miller. Powerful CIA analyst, happily married to a man she adores, mother of four beautiful children. Until she makes a shocking discovery that makes her question everything she believes. She thought she knew her husband inside and out. But now she wonders if it was all a lie. How far will she go to learn the truth?

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  • The Kill Artist

    by Daniel Silva
    Immersed in the quiet, painstaking life of an art restorer, former Israeli intelligence agent Gabriel Allon keeps his past far behind. But now he's called back into the game - and along with a cop hiding behind her own mask ... like a gorgeous fashion model. Their target: a devious terrorist in a final kill, a Palestinian zealot who played a dark part in Gabriel's past.

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  • The Spy and the Traitor

    by Ben Macintyre
    Unraveling the delightful three-part game between America, Britain and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the captivating cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky's nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre's latest maybe its best yet. Like John le Carré's greatest novels, it takes readers deep into a world of betrayal and betrayal, where lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man's hatred of communism had the power to shape the future of nations. to change.



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