The 10 books on this stack
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David Mccloskey 2021 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · love in the middle of danger
It shares this with 7 more books on this stack
CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.
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Terry Hayes 2013
Why it's on the stack
You need to know how it ends · spies, moles and state secrets
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
Can you commit the perfect crime? Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist.
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Mick Herron 2010 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
No clean hands here · a cozy mystery, no gore
It shares this with 7 more books on this stack
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses.
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Jason Matthews 2013 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
One more chapter, then another · spies, moles and state secrets
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
In contemporary Russia, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova has been drafted to become a “Sparrow”—a spy trained in the art of seduction to elicit information from their marks.
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Robert Ludlum 1966 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It grabs you with a mystery · spies, moles and state secrets
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
He was dragged from the sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: a frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the skin of his hip; evidence that plastic surgery has altered his…
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Graham Greene 1955
Why it's on the stack
Nobody is entirely good · it changes how you see things
It shares this with 7 more books on this stack
As his naïve optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch.
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John le Carré 1987
Why it's on the stack
You need to know how it ends · spies, moles and state secrets
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
The enduring novel by one of our greatest storytellers. George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.
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Len Deighton 1962 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Nobody is entirely good · spies, moles and state secrets
It shares this with 7 more books on this stack
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why.
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John le Carré 1964 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head · spies, moles and state secrets
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War, now a Penguin Clothbound Classic designed…
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Frederick Forsyth 1990 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · someone passing as someone they're not
It shares this with 7 more books on this stack
An anonymous Englishman is hired by the Operations Chief of French terrorist organisation O.A.S. to murder the French president, General Charles de Gaulle.