18 books like Doctor No

What to read after Doctor No — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life Karen Rauch Carter · 2000 · ★ 4.4 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Moderate An essential and accessible guide to increasing happiness, improving your financial well-being, and bettering your health through the timeless Chinese art of feng shui.Promising health, wealth, and happiness, feng shui offers endless appeal—at least in concept. Unfortunately, feng shui’s seemingly complicated methods are often difficult to learn and apply in a meaningful way. Fortunately, Move… Shares: Community pick

Live and let die Ian Fleming · 1954 · ★ 4.1 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big - master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that Mr Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the Everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Mr Big is one of… Shares: Fiction - Espionage, Bond, James Bond, Espionage

Goldfinger Ian Fleming · 1958 · ★ 3.8 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A friendly game of two-handed canasta turns out to be thoroughly crooked. And a beautiful girl ends up dead. In Bond's first encounter with Auric Goldfinger - the world's cleverest, cruellest criminal, useful lessons are learned. Shares: Fiction - Espionage, Bond, James Bond, Espionage

For Your Eyes Only Ian Fleming · 1959 · ★ 3.7 · 146p · ≈ 4h · Moderate "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: Fiction - Espionage, English Spy stories, Espionage, Intelligence service

Devil May Care Sebastian Faulks · 2000 · ★ 3.5 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An Algerian drug runner is savagely executed in the desolate outskirts of Paris. This seemingly isolated event leads to the recall of Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome and his return to the world of intrigue and danger where he is most at home. The head of MI6, M, assigns him to shadow the mysterious Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by… Shares: Fiction - Espionage, Bond, James Bond, Intelligence service

Trigger Mortis Anthony Horowitz · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 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: Bond, James Bond, English Spy stories, Intelligence service

From Russia with Love Ian Fleming · 1957 · ★ 3.9 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller, and the novel that President John F. Kennedy named one of his favourite books of all time. SMERSH stands for ‘Death to Spies’ and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal… Shares: Bond, James Bond, Intelligence service, British

For Special Services John Gardner · 1982 · ★ 3.6 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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 Sykes-Fairbairn commando daggers, a new Heckler & Koch VP70 handgun and a gorgeous new partner – the daughter of his old friend Felix Leiter – Bond experiences the full deadly force of… Shares: Bond, James Bond, English Spy stories, Intelligence service

The Man from Barbarossa John Gardner · 1991 · ★ 3.9 · 303p · ≈ 10h · Moderate James Bond has been partnered with an Israeli Mossad agent, Pete Natkowitz, and assigned to work with the KGB to infiltrate a terrorist group. The group, The Scales of Justice, are demanding the trial of a suspected Nazi war criminal and each day of delay brings another death. Posing as a TV crew, Bond and the other agents attempt to discover the group's real motive. When Bond realizes that the… Shares: Bond, James Bond, English Spy stories, Intelligence service

Brokenclaw John Gardner · 1990 · ★ 3.7 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate On holiday in Victoria, British Columbia, Bond becomes by intrigued Lee Fu-Chu, a half-Blackfoot, half-Chinese philanthropist who is known as "Brokenclaw" because of a deformed hand. On his return to the UK Bond is tasked to investigate the kidnapping of several scientists who have been working on a new submarine detection system. It becomes clear that Brokenclaw is behind the kidnapping and… Shares: Bond, James Bond, English Spy stories, Intelligence service

Colonel Sun Kingsley Amis · 1968 · ★ 3.4 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency... until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China collaborates with an ex-Nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy. Stripped of all professional aids, Bond… Shares: Bond, James Bond, Espionage, Intelligence service

You Only Live Twice Ian Fleming · 1964 · ★ 3.7 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Bond, a shattered man after the death of his wife at the hands of SPECTRE founder Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has gone to pieces as an agent, endangering himself and his fellow operatives. M, unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, sends 007 to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission with the hopes of bolstering his spirits. But Japan proves to be Bond's downfall, leading him to a… Shares: Bond, James Bond, Intelligence service, British

Ian Fleming's master spy James Bond in Nobody lives forever John Gardner · 1986 · ★ 3.5 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 'Take care 007. Take special care. The continent's a hotbed of villainy these days and you can never be too careful' Bond was supposed to be on leave. But SPECTRE leader Tamil Rahani, dying from injuries suffered at Bond's hand, is determined to make it the holiday to die for. With a price on his head, Bond must evade the world's greatest assassins in a ruthless game of cat-and-mouse across… Shares: Bond, James Bond, English Spy stories, Intelligence service

No Deals, Mr. Bond John Gardner · 1960 · ★ 3.7 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Two female agents of Operation Cream Cake - double agents and honey traps against the KGB - are murdered. Bond must find the others and conduct them to safety before they meet a similar fate. In a race against time, Bond travels to Ireland and the KGB is soon on the scene. But all is not as it seems and soon Bond finds he needs all his wits to negotiate a labyrinth of double-crossing that is to… Shares: Bond, James Bond, English Spy stories, Intelligence service

With a Mind to Kill Anthony Horowitz · 2022 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder—James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion's den—but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when… Shares: Fiction - Espionage, English Spy stories, Espionage, Intelligence service

Ian Fleming's James Bond in John Gardner's Never Send Flowers John Gardner · 1993 · ★ 3.0 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In different corners of the world, four high-profile figures are assassinated in less than a week. Nobody claims responsibility, and nobody links the deaths. But one thing is certain: each victim has been stalked, sought out and killed with care and preparation. Then a sinister connection is established: a single, blood-tipped rose is sent to each funeral. When MI5 come to MI6 to ask for help M… Shares: Bond, James Bond, English Spy stories, Intelligence service

Octopussy and the Living Daylights - Octopussy/The property of a lady/The living daylights/007 in New York Ian Fleming · 2002 · ★ 3.6 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The last collection of James Bond adventures from Ian Fleming, Octopussy and The Living Daylights features four tales of intrigue that push 007 to the limit and find the secret agent questioning where he can go from there… In “Octopussy,” a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the door of his Caribbean fortress, and in “The… Shares: Fiction - Espionage, English Spy stories, Espionage, Intelligence service

Thunderball Ian Fleming · 1961 · ★ 3.8 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "When a stranger arrives in the Bahamas, the locals barely turn their heads, seeing another ex-pat with money to burn at the casino tables. But James Bond has more than money on his mind; he's got less than a week to find two stolen atom bombs hidden among the coral reefs. While acting the playboy, Bond meets Domino, sultry plaything of secretive treasure hunter Emilio Largo. In getting close to… Shares: James Bond, Intelligence service, British, Great Britain

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