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Spy Thrillers

If spy thrillers is on your reading list, you're in the right place. We've pulled together a focused selection of mystery books — from enduring classics to the titles everyone is talking about right now.

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The Secrets We Kept

by Lara Prescott

2019

________________________ 'Utterly compelling... I absolutely loved it' Sarah Winman 'Tantalising' Sunday Times 'Thoroughly enjoyable' Guardian ________________________ No one looks twice at the women in the typing po…

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A Loyal Spy

by Simon Conway

2018

Winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, a Contemporary Spy Thriller for Fans of Brad Thor and John Le Carré. The last time Jonah saw Nor ed-Din, he was lying face-down in a pool of icy water in the Khyber Pass. He thought he had kille…

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Spies in European Culture, 1815-1914

by Laura Di Fiore, Elisabetta Abignente

2025

This volume brings together academics from the USA and across Europe to examine the nature, representations and perceptions of the figure of the spy in Europe between 1815 and 1914. As such, it is the first scholarly investigation of the ge…

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American Spy

by Lauren Wilkinson

2020

“American Spy updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality.”—Entertainment Weekly “There has never been anything like it.”—Marlon James, GQ “So much fun . . . Like the best of John le Carré, it’s extremely tough to put down.”—NPR…

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The British Cinema Book

by Robert Murphy

2019

The new edition of The British Cinema Book has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to the major periods, genres, studios, film-makers and debates in British cinema from the 1890s to the present. The b…

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The Fourteenth Protocol

by Nathan Goodman

2017

"One of the best new mystery thriller authors...author has hit this one out of the park." A terrorist on the loose, a country in panic, and time is running out. After an eleventh terrorist attack, the American people are at a brea…

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The Spy House

by Matthew Dunn

2016

In the fifth electrifying thriller featuring Will Cochrane, the Intelligence agent must solve the unsolvable: How did four international agents working on a super-secret mission die in a safe house bunker that was locked from the inside? Cr…

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Spies

by Paul Dawson

2024

SPIES A CIA & Nazi Cold War Spy Thriller Based on a True Story Max Dreyfuss, a US military intelligence officer, stationed in Germany after World War II, was partnered with a Nazi spy, and war criminal, during the Cold War, to fight Com…

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Lena's Secret War

by Fred G. Baker

2021

It is 1971 and espionage is in the air in Soviet Russia.Lena Kristoff is a researcher working on the highest priority project of the time, a secret computer model of the entire Soviet economic system. She is recruited by the CIA and falls i…

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Spy Thrillers

by Clive Bloom

1991

This volume presents 13 essays on the Spy Thriller in the 20th century and includes a critical introduction to the subject. Each essay combines historical and aesthetic theory with practical criticism. Authors covered range from Joseph Conr…

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