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Books about Espionage - Spy vs Spy

 

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• Liars and Thieves: A Tommy Carmellini Novel
  Author: Coonts, Stephen
  Publisher: St Martins $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312283628 Date: 2004
  PW
  A beautiful woman is being blackmailed, an illegal break-in occurs, and a massacre at a government safe house puts CIA agent Tommy Carmellini on the trail of a dark conspiracy.
  Updated 3.11.04
• The Spanish Game
  Author: Cumming, Charles
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312366391 Date: 2008
  PW
  The latest thriller from the international bestselling author of A Spy by Nature will delight fans of such British masters of spy fiction as John le Carr, Robert Ludlum, and Len Deighton ("Publishers Weekly," starred review).
  Updated 10.1.08
  
• Hunting Season
  Author: Deutermann, Peter T.
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 031226979x Date: 2001
  PW
  From the author of the acclaimed thriller Sweepers comes an explosive return to the world of the top secret intelligence operative whose job it is to "kill the killers"--and this time it's personal. Hunting Season moves from rolling hills to the marble corridors of Washington, D.C., as it tracks the progress of a man on a mission and the secret he alone knows.
  Updated 12/14/00
• Free Agent
  Author: Duns, Jeremy
  $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780670021017 Date: 2009
  PW
  A riveting spy thriller that spans two continents and probes the limits of loyalty and love, Free Agent is the spectacular story of one man's fight for survival and search for the truth about his father's death and his lover's betrayal.
  Updated 5.15.09
  
• Warning Shot
  Author: Egleton, Clive
  Publisher: St Martins List Price: $22.95 ISBN: 0312156859 Date: 1997
  Booklist
  An ominous bombing in Berlin calls Special Agent Peter Ashton back into the international spotlight in this spellbinding espionage thriller from an "expert stylist" (The New York Time Book Review) "Egleton's masterful storytelling and trademark style, combined with authentic detail, an inventive plot, and superb pacing, add up to yet another outstanding thriller" - Booklist.
  
• Red Gold
  Author: Furst, Alan
  Publisher: Random Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0679451862 Date: 1999
  Library Journal PW Booklist Kirkus
  Within the fragmented French resistance, an intelligence officer decides to strike a deal with the devil in this rich and suspenseful part thriller, part love story spy novel.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
• Kingdom of Shadows
  Author: Furst, Alan
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375503374 Date: 2000
  PW Booklist
  In spymaster Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath--a hugely charismatic hero--becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in Eastern Europe.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Mystery Stars | World Wars Stars
  Updated 11/22/00
• Blood of Victory
  Author: Furst, Alan
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375505741 Date: 2002
  PW Kirkus Booklist
  From "the greatest living writer of espionage fiction" (The Houston Chronicle) comes the story of I.A. Serebin, recruited in Istanbul in 1940 by an agent of the British secret service for a desperate operation to block Hitler's conquest of Europe.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | World War Stars
  Updated 8.13.02
• The Increment
  Author: Ignatius, David
  $I26.95 ISBN: 9780393065046 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ
  By the author of the bestselling Body of Lies comes a novel that takes the reader inside the most volatile secret of the 21st century: the Iranian nuclear program.
  Suggested Reading: Adrenaline
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Old Flames
  Author: Lawton, John
  Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871138646 Date: 2003
  Kirkus PW
  Old Flames is a riveting spy novel sparked by historical events, with a twisting, turning plot that The Sunday Times (London) declares "a strange, thoughtful, quiet, intelligent spellbinder of a book, penetrating the very heart of betrayal."
  Updated 12.16.02
• Bluffing Mr. Churchill
  Author: Lawton, John
  Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871139073 Date: 2004
  PW
  With his Inspector Troy series, Lawton has been compared to top historical espionage writers such as John le Carr and Len Deighton. Now Lawton offers "one of the most entertaining thrillers . . . in years" (Sunday Telegraph).
  Updated 12.8.03
• Old Boys
  Author: McCarry, Charles
  Publisher: Overlook $ 25.95 ISBN: 1585675458 Date: 2004
  LJ Kirkus Booklist
  When crack intelligence agent Paul Christopher disappears, his ex-agent cousin enlists the support of four other retired colleagues to find him. Harassed by American intelligence and hunted by terrorists, they travel the globe in search of the unspeakably dangerous truth.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 5.7.04
• The Crisis
  Author: Poyer, David
  $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780312544393 Date: 2009
  PW
  Featuring exciting action, espionage, and exotic locales, The Crisis raises questions about America's obligations to relieve the suffering of other countries and the role of a democratic government in nations with no central leadership.
  Updated 9.23.09
  
• Line in the Sand
  Author: Seymour, Gerald
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0684854775 Date: 2001
  PW
  Just when he was beginning to feel safe, Frank Perry's past surfaces with a vengeance. Ten years ago, Perry made powerful enemies by spying for the British government on Iranian chemical and biological weapons installations. Now, Iran is exacting its revenge and dispatching its most deadly assassin to do the job.
  Updated 6/16/00
• Unknown Soldier
  Author: Seymour, Gerald
  Publisher: Overlook $ 24.95 ISBN: 1585676349 Date: 2005
  Kirkus
  Intelligence agents hunt for the world's most lethal terrorist in this thrillingly suspenseful novel from a master of espionage fiction.
  Updated 12.16.04
• The Unlikely Spy
  Author: Silva, Daniel
  Publisher: Villard List Price: $25 ISBN: 06794455620 Date: 1997
  Kirkus
  Silva's stunning debut novel--a BOMC Selection that spent five weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list--tells an evocative, classic tale of espionage during World War II.
  
• The Kill Artist
  Author: Silva, Daniel
  Publisher: Random $ 25.95 ISBN: 0375500901 Date: 2000
  PW
  The bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy and The Mark of the Assassin returns with a new hero and a thrilling story of Middle East political intrigue and terrorism that covers three continents and shows the peace process in jeopardy. The story, by an author who was praised by Newsday for "bringing new life to the international thriller", features a colorful supporting cast and fascinating background detail about the Palestinian situation and the cutthroat art world.
  Suggested Reading: If You Liked the Da Vinci Code
  Updated 11/30/00
• The English Assassin
  Author: Silva, Daniel
  Publisher: Putnam $ 25.95 ISBN: 03991458515 Date: 2002
  PW Booklist
  Israeli intelligence operative Gabriel Allon (The Kill Artist) probes a murder in which he is implicated in the ingenious new espionage thriller by the bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy.
  Updated 1/24/02
• A Death in Vienna
  Author: Silva, Daniel
  Publisher: Putnam $ 25.95 ISBN: 0399151435 Date: 2004
  PW
  The sins of the past reverberate into the present, in an extraordinary novel by the new master of international suspense. Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about a photograph that has turned his world upside down.
  Updated 1.5.04
• The Innocent Spy
  Author: Wilson, Laura
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780312538101 Date: 2009
  PW LJ
  "A compelling and wonderfully atmospheric murder mystery" (Robert Goddard), this is the first in an exciting new series of crime novels from celebrated author Wilson.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Crime Fiction
  Updated 8.13.09