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Here are 20 incredible page-turning spy novels you can read right now, books that would even entertain James Bond. ... we've picked out 20 of the best spy novels of all time. Casino Royale (1953)
In le Carré best known novel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1963), the hero Alec Leamas views himself as serving in "...a war fought on a tiny scale, at close range" and complained that he has seen too many "people cheated and misled, whole lives thrown away, people shot and in prison, whole groups and classes of men written off for ...
Basil St. Florian, the main protagonist of Stephen Hunter's 2021 novel Basil's War; Blackford Oakes is a Central Intelligence Agency officer, spy and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley; Carl Hamilton, Swedish secret agent from the Books of Jan Guillou
The book was listed by Jake Kerridge in The Telegraph as one of "The 20 best spy novels of all time." [12] The book was shortlisted for the 2010 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of the year. [13] On the social cataloging website Goodreads, Slow Horses holds an average rating of 4.01/5 stars from 54,500 reviews. [14]
Le Carré's third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller, was adapted as an award-winning film, and remains one of his best-known works. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author. [ 5 ]
Spy novels are a genre of fiction closely related to thrillers that specifically include the characters and world of spies, secret agents, and covert operatives. Normally written with the spy hero as the main character, the setting is often within the world of espionage and intrigue, and there is often a lot of tradecraft in the story: dead drops and honey traps
The Cellist (novel) The Charlemagne Pursuit; The Charm School (novel) City of the Sun (Maio novel) The Collector (Silva novel) The Company (Littell novel) The Confessor (novel) Counterparts (novel) Cyborg (novel) Cyborg IV
Novel * BBC mini-series In March 2015, shooting wrapped on the film adaptation, Damascus Cover of Howard Kaplan's novel The Damascus Cover set in 1989 at the fall of the Berlin Wall, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Hurt, Jurgen Prochnow and Olivia Thirlby.