18 books like A Coffin for Dimitrios
Uncommon danger
When the stranger offered 600 marks to do a little job, Kenyon accepted. The guy was a lying rat, but Kenyon needed the money. That little job got him involved in a deadly game of Soviets vs. Nazis, with Soviet military secrets the prize. All set in motion by a cynical force seeking a piece of the Roumanian oil fields, source of the black blood of war.
Shares: Orient Express, Railroad travel, Smuggling, British
Stamboul train
Published in 1932 as an 'entertainment', Graham Greene's gripping spy thriller unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople.
Weaving a web of subterfuge, murder and politics along the way, the novel focuses upon the disturbing relationship between Myatt, the pragmatic Jew, and naive chorus girl Coral Musker as they engage in a desperate,…
Shares: Orient Express, Railroad travel, Europe, Spy Fiction
Twinkle twinkle little spy
When the unnamed British agent in this story is sent to take custody of a defecting Russian scientist, his mission takes him to the Arab world and the Sahara desert as he is consistently foiled by a US Secret Service high-up. Loyalty is tested and never certain, as it becomes unclear as the novel develops who is actually chasing whom, and where the threat is coming from.
Shares: English Spy stories, Spy Fiction, Thriller
Tanner On Ice
Cold War superspy Evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the '70s?Frozen. Cryogenically. A Tanner-sicle. Which he never thought would happen when he walked into a basement in Union City, New Jersey, more than a quarter century ago. Now he's unthawed and ready to rumble, and his somewhat addled, former super-secret boss, "the Chief," is…
Shares: Smuggling, Spy Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
The line-crosser
Shares: Europe, Spy Fiction
Diamonds are Forever
"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call 'cutlets,' and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s going to live up to the occasion."
Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind…
Shares: English Spy stories, British, Spy Fiction, Thriller
For Your Eyes Only
"Bond watched her as she reached the edge of the tables and came up the aisle. It was hopeless. She was coming to meet someone—her lover. She was the sort of woman who always belongs to somebody else. What damnable luck!
Before Bond could pull himself together, the girl had come up to his table and sat down. ‘I’m sorry I’m late. We’ve got to get moving at once. You’re wanted at the office.’ She…
Shares: English Spy stories, British, Spy Fiction, Thriller
The Bridge of Sighs
From the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist...It's August, 1948, three years after the Russians "liberated" the nation from German Occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capital's rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the People's…
Shares: Europe, Mystery
The Riddle of the Sands
Childers's lone masterpiece, THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization,richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivid evocation of the late 1890s - an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and intrigue that was soon to…
Shares: English Spy stories, British, Thriller, Mystery
Christine
A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and deadly.
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Shares: Smuggling, Thriller
Palace of Treason
843 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Shares: Spy Fiction, Thriller
Doctor No
The sixth James Bond thriller from Ian Fleming’s typewriter.
Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over.
On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel…
Shares: English Spy stories, British, Spy Fiction, Thriller
Yellow-dog contract
An ex-political operative is a master of dirty tricks, but now he's mixed up in something far worse: "Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense" (Los Angeles Times).
 
There are few jobs that Harvey Longmire hasn't had. He's been a crime reporter, Louisiana state legislator, foreign correspondent, and—briefly—a decoy for the CIA. But he made his name as campaign trail fixer, an…
Shares: Spy Fiction, Mystery
Any human heart
ANY HUMAN HEART is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.
Shares: Novelists, British, Spy Fiction
The Life of Ian Fleming
Through extensive research and examination of private papers, this book exposes the fact that although Fleming might have denied the connection, the Bond books were in fact autobiographical.
Shares: Novelists, Spy Fiction
Night of the Fox
Narra unos acontecimientos que hubieran podido cambiar radicalmente el desenlace de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un veterano agente secreto británico debe rescatar a cualquier precio a un coronel norteamericano que ha naufragado cerca de la isla de Jersey, ocupada por los alemanes. El éxito de la operación resulta aún más problemático por la presencia en la isla de un doble del mariscal Rommel. La…
Shares: Europe, Thriller
Trigger Mortis
It's 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. And SMERSH is back.
The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in…
Shares: English Spy stories, Spy Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
Calamity town
Ellery Queen moves into the small town of Wrightsville, somewhere in New England, in order to get some peace and quiet so that he can write a book. As a result of renting a furnished house, he becomes peripherally involved in the story of Jim Haight and Nora Wright. Nora's father is president of the Wrightsville National bank, "oldest family in town", and when the head cashier Jim Haight became…
Shares: Novelists, Mystery