18 books like For Your Eyes Only

What to read after For Your Eyes Only — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

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, Secret service, 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, Secret service, Espionage, Intelligence officers

High Time to Kill Raymond Benson · 1999 · ★ 3.9 · 311p · ≈ 10h · Moderate During a dinner party with an old friend, James Bond encounters a criminal organization called "The Union" that may be responsible for the theft of information vital to Britain's national security. Shares: Fiction - Espionage, Secret service, Espionage, Intelligence officers

Never Dream of Dying Raymond Benson · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate It begins at a movie studio in Nice where a police raid goes horribly wrong, killing innocent men, women, and even children. It continues in an English prison, where a dead man discloses an intriguing secret about the brutal criminal organization called the Union. The trail leads James Bond to Paris, where he meets the tantalizing movie star Tylyn Mignonne and embarks on a voyage of sensual… Shares: Fiction - Espionage, Secret service, Espionage, Intelligence officers

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, Secret service, Espionage

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: Secret service, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, British

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, Espionage, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service

Doctor No Ian Fleming · 1958 · ★ 3.8 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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: Fiction - Espionage, English Spy stories, Espionage, Intelligence service

Moonraker Ian Fleming · 1955 · ★ 3.8 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate— This Is the Face of Hugo Drax, The Mystery Man Behind Moonraker. A stranger, he came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon ever devised by a human brain. A maniacal genius, he now holds the life of secret agent JAMES BOND in his fiendishly clever hands!! Shares: Fiction - Espionage, Secret service, Espionage, Intelligence officers

Diamonds are Forever Ian Fleming · 1956 · ★ 3.6 · 258p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "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, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, British

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, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, Great Britain

Casino Royale Ian Fleming · 1953 · ★ 3.7 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless and licensed to kill. This, the first of Ian Fleming's tales of secret agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply "le Chiffre" -- by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to "retire" him. It seems that lady luck is taken with 007… Shares: Secret service, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, British

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: English Spy stories, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, Great Britain

COLD John Gardner · 1996 · ★ 3.5 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate James Bond is on a mission that will become an obsession. It starts the night Flight 229 is torn apart at Washington airport, killing 435 passengers. But the victim who matters to Bond is the Principessa Sukie Tempesta: once his lover, still his friend. The search for Sukie's killers will turn out to be the most complex and demanding assignment of Bond's career. Across continents and through… Shares: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service

Our Game John le Carré · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 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 decades. They follow each other to Moscow and then Southern Russia. Shares: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spy Fiction

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: Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, British, Great Britain

Quantum Of Solace Ian Fleming · 2008 · ★ 3.4 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Marking the centennial of the author's birth, a comprehensive anthology of short fiction chronicling the exploits and adventures of the suave British agent includes the tales that served as the inspiration for such films as Octopussy, The Living Daylights, For Your Eyes Only, and the upcoming Fall 2008 Quantum of Solace. Shares: English Spy stories, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, Great Britain

Forever and a Day Anthony Horowitz · 2018 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The sea keeps its secrets. But not this time. One body. Three bullets. 007 floats in the waters of Marseille, killed by an unknown hand. It’s time for a new agent to step up. Time for a new weapon in the war against organised crime. It’s time for James Bond to earn his licence to kill. This is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera. Shares: Fiction - Espionage, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, Great Britain

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