For Special Services vs Our Game: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies, Spy Fiction, Adventure
For Special Services
Bond is back on secret loan to the United States Government and primed to confront an old and deadly adversary which now has a sinister new leader and a devastating operation underway. Armed with a pair of…
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Our Game
Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant and Larry Pettifer, bored radical don, philanderer and for 20 years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Our Game has the widest readership — 8176 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| For Special Services | Our Game | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (2463) | 3.7 (8176) |
| Hardcover | 3.6 (10) | 3.7 (12) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (7) | 4.5 (64) |
Reception
| For Special Services | Our Game | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 2463 | 8176 |
| Editions | 20 | 26 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 1204 | — |
| Reading it now | 71 | — |
| Written reviews | 166 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 403 | 842 |
| Pages | 296 | 328 |