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Espionage Booklist
Page Modified: June 1, 2007
Books about Espionage - Spy vs Spy
A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on this list. Titles are alphabetically by author. Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
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