Frederick Forsyth 1990
- What it is
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Someone passing as someone they're not · it messes with your head
- Genre
- Thriller Crime Historical fiction
- Feels
- Morally grey Cerebral Adventurous Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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It messes with your head · it grabs you with a mystery
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You'll finish it in two nights · fierce and defiant
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False identity and cerebral
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Nobody is entirely good · a threat that keeps growing
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One more chapter, then another · a world to get lost in
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Only false identity
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In common with yours: false identity · the truth comes out bit by bit
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In common with yours: false identity · properly scary
Duke and I
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Like yours: false identity · love and laughs in equal parts
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Like yours: false identity · love and laughs in equal parts
Spanish Love Deception
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Like yours: false identity · love and laughs in equal parts
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Only cerebral
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Readers put them together in Spy novels where nobody gets out clean
The Ipcress File
Len Deighton 1962
A reader shelved it with yours in Spy novels where nobody gets out clean
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · you need to know how it ends
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
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No clean hands here · a mystery you want to solve
A Time to Kill
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No clean hands here · fierce and defiant
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You'll keep turning it over for days · it'll scare you
The Housemaid
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Behind Closed Doors
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It'll scare you · it's hiding a secret
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
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No clean hands here · a mystery you want to solve
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Alex Michaelides 2018
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
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No clean hands here · a trial at the heart of the story
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you shaken
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
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