By the Rivers of Babylon vs Morning Spy, Evening Spy: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Terrorists, Middle east, Fiction
By the Rivers of Babylon
Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists,…
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Morning Spy, Evening Spy
CIA officer Paul Patterson races to track down Kareem, a former Afghan resistance fighter who has become an al-Qaeda and Taliban operative, in a novel about the search for terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Morning Spy, Evening Spy is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 8 for By the Rivers of Babylon.
- By the Rivers of Babylon has the widest readership — 9249 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| By the Rivers of Babylon | Morning Spy, Evening Spy | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (9249) | — |
| Google Books | 4.5 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (208) | — |
Reception
| By the Rivers of Babylon | Morning Spy, Evening Spy | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 9249 | 1 |
| Editions | 36 | 8 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 325 | — |
| Pages | 460 | 320 |