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Ken Follett · 1978 · UK · thriller
★ 4.22 Goodreads · 175,021 ratings

In 1944 a German spy in England known as the Needle discovers the secret of the D-Day invasion and heads for a U-boat rendezvous, with MI5 on his trail and a storm closing in.

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12 books for readers of Eye of the Needle

The Kill Artist

Daniel Silva · 2000 · US 96% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 104,884 ratings
Book 1 of 26 in Gabriel Allon
shares: espionage, cat and mouse, spy · suspenseful, easy read

Gabriel Allon, an art restorer living quietly on the Cornish coast, once killed for Israeli intelligence; his old spymaster Ari Shamron draws him back to hunt Tariq al-Hourani, the Palestinian terrorist behind the Vienna car bomb that took his family from him.

The Lost Girls of Paris

Pam Jenoff · 2019 · US 95% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 117,876 ratings
shares: espionage, spy, WWII, war · easy read, suspenseful

In 1946, Grace Healey finds a suitcase abandoned under a bench in Grand Central Terminal and inside it photographs of twelve women, agents sent into occupied France by a British network led by Eleanor Trigg, who never came home.

Five Decembers

James Kestrel · 2021 · US 94% match ★ 4.38 Goodreads · 17,012 ratings
shares: thriller, WWII, romantic, war · suspenseful, easy read

In Honolulu in late 1941, detective Joe McGrady chases a killer to Hong Kong just as the Japanese attack, and is trapped behind the lines for the war.

The Quiller Memorandum

Adam Hall · 1965 · UK 94% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 2,215 ratings
shares: espionage, spy, edgar award · suspenseful, easy read

Quiller, a British agent who works alone, takes over the hunt for a neo-Nazi organisation in Berlin after the last man on the job is shot.

Gone

Mo Hayder · 2010 · UK 94% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 10,914 ratings
Book 5 of 7 in Jack Caffery
shares: thriller, cat and mouse, edgar award · suspenseful, easy read

DI Jack Caffery investigates a carjacking in Bristol in which an eleven-year-old girl was in the back seat, and the thief has done it before.

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Mark T. Sullivan · 2017 · US 94% match ★ 4.44 Goodreads · 412,385 ratings
shares: spy, WWII, propulsive, war · easy read, suspenseful

A novel based on the account of Pino Lella, a teenager in Milan during World War II who guides Jews over the Alps to safety and is then made the driver of a high-ranking Nazi general, a post that lets him spy for the Allies.

Forfeit

Dick Francis · 1968 · UK 94% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 4,803 ratings
shares: thriller, edgar award · easy read, suspenseful

James Tyrone, a racing journalist caring for his paralysed wife, looks into the death of a colleague and finds a racket in racing tips.

The Bourne Identity

Robert Ludlum · 1980 · US 93% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 444,609 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Jason Bourne
shares: cat and mouse, spy · suspenseful, action-packed

A man is pulled half-dead from the Mediterranean with bullet wounds, no memory and the number of a Zurich bank account surgically implanted in his hip, and as he follows the only clue he has, killers start appearing at every step.

Blue Heaven

C. J. Box · 2008 · US 92% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 22,561 ratings
shares: thriller, cat and mouse, edgar award · suspenseful, easy read

Twelve-year-old Annie and her little brother William, camping in the woods of northern Idaho, see four men commit a murder, and the killers, retired Los Angeles cops, come after them.

The Alice Network

Kate Quinn · 2017 · US 92% match ★ 4.32 Goodreads · 682,661 ratings
shares: spy, WWII, war, wwii · easy read, suspenseful

In 1947 a pregnant American college girl searching for her missing cousin teams up with a bitter former spy who served in a network of women agents in occupied France during World War I.

Whip Hand

Dick Francis · 1979 · UK 92% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 8,102 ratings
Book 2 of 4 in Sid Halley
shares: thriller, edgar award · easy read, suspenseful

Sid Halley, a former champion jockey turned private investigator after losing a hand, is hired to find out why promising racehorses keep failing.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Ian Fleming · 1963 · UK 92% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 23,175 ratings
Book 11 of 14 in James Bond
shares: spy, romantic · easy read, suspenseful

Bond falls in love while infiltrating a mountaintop allergy clinic that's really a front for biological warfare.