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John le Carré · 1993 · UK · thriller · literary fiction
★ 3.60 Hardcover · 62 ratings

A former soldier working as night manager of a Zurich hotel is recruited by British intelligence to work his way into the inner circle of a charming arms dealer.

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John le Carré · 1963 · UK 97% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 135,223 ratings
Book 3 of 9 in George Smiley
shares: spy, morally ambiguous · cold, morally murky

A burned-out British agent agrees to pose as a defector to East Germany in a last mission against a ruthless counterintelligence chief, and learns too late what the operation is really for.

A Perfect Spy

John le Carré · 1986 · UK 96% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 23,947 ratings
shares: spy, morally ambiguous · cold, morally murky

When Magnus Pym, a senior British intelligence officer, disappears after his father's funeral, the story of his life, from his con-man father to his double career, emerges, in le Carré's most autobiographical novel.

Live and Let Die

Ian Fleming · 1954 · UK 96% match ★ 3.63 Goodreads · 38,817 ratings
Book 2 of 14 in James Bond
shares: spy, Caribbean, suspenseful · easy read, suspenseful

James Bond trails a gold-smuggling voodoo crime lord from Harlem to a Caribbean island rigged with shark-filled death traps.

Northern Spy

Flynn Berry · 2021 · US 94% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 58,047 ratings
shares: spy, suspenseful · suspenseful, easy read

Tessa, a BBC producer in Belfast on maternity leave, watches the news of an IRA robbery and sees her sister Marian on screen, pulling on a balaclava.

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene · 1958 · UK 94% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 43,729 ratings
shares: spy, Caribbean · easy read, conventional

A hapless British vacuum-cleaner salesman in Havana is recruited by MI6 and, with nothing to report, invents a network of agents, with darkly comic and then dangerous consequences.

The Mask of Dimitrios

Eric Ambler · 1939 · UK 94% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 12,787 ratings
shares: spy, morally ambiguous · intricate plot, easy read

Charles Latimer, an English writer of detective stories visiting Istanbul, is shown the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos, a notorious criminal pulled from the Bosphorus, and becomes curious enough to trace the dead man's life across Europe.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith · 1955 · US 94% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 129,453 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Tom Ripley
shares: morally ambiguous, wealth, suspenseful · easy read, cold

Tom Ripley, a charming, rootless young American, is paid to travel to Italy and bring home a rich man's son, Dickie Greenleaf, but becomes fixated on Dickie and the life he leads.

The Third Man

Graham Greene · 1950 · UK 93% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 3,770 ratings
shares: criminal, suspenseful · easy read, cold

A writer of cheap westerns arrives in postwar Vienna to find his old friend Harry Lime dead, and a British police officer shows him what Lime was really selling.

The Kill Artist

Daniel Silva · 2000 · US 93% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 104,884 ratings
Book 1 of 26 in Gabriel Allon
shares: spy · intricate plot, suspenseful

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.

Something in the Water

Catherine Steadman · 2018 · UK 93% match ★ 3.54 Goodreads · 248,365 ratings
shares: wealth, suspenseful · easy read, intricate plot

Erin, a documentary maker, and Mark, a banker who has just lost his job, are diving on their honeymoon in Bora Bora when they find a bag floating in the sea, full of cash and diamonds.

A High Wind in Jamaica

Richard Hughes · 1929 · UK 92% match ★ 3.76 Goodreads · 10,884 ratings
shares: Caribbean, morally ambiguous · easy read, cold

English children sent home from Jamaica by their parents after a hurricane are captured by pirates and reveal a strangeness the adults around them cannot name.

Billy Summers

Stephen King · 2021 · US 92% match ★ 4.07 Hardcover · 545 ratings
shares: morally ambiguous, suspenseful · intricate plot, suspenseful

Billy Summers, a hitman who only kills bad men and hides his intelligence behind a dumb act, takes one last job, and while he waits for the target in a small Southern city he poses as a writer and starts to write his own story.