18 books like Our Game

What to read after Our Game — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

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: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

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: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

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: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

James Bond in John Gardner's death is forever John Gardner · 1992 · ★ 3.0 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The end of the Cold War spawns a fierce new villain, in John Gardner's eleventh addition to the classic, best-selling James Bond series. Now that the two Germanys have united, a joint British-American intelligence network in the old Eastern Bloc has disintegrated, to the dismay of SIS and the CIA. But their efforts to make renewed contact with the network, codenamed CABAL, fail when the two… Shares: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

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: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

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: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

Win, lose or die John Gardner · 1989 · ★ 2.7 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When M receives word that a known terrorist organisation is planning to destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier – currently hosting a summit of world leaders - James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from Commander to Captain, Bond is expected to infiltrate the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and identify potential sleeper agents. As he struggles to… Shares: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

JamesBond in John Gardner's Scorpius John Gardner · 1988 · ★ 3.0 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate James Bond investigates a cult guru, Father Valentine, and finds he has links to the mega-czar of global vice and terrorism, Vladimir Scorpius. From then on, 007 races to a confrontation with the evil genius. Shares: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

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: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

Seafire John Gardner · 1994 · ★ 3.8 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate James Bond is back in action, with Flicka von Grusse at his side and his licence to kill renewed once more. His target is Sir Maxwell Tarn: a businessman whose legitimate empire spans the globe, whose wealth is uncountable . . . and who appears to deal in illegal weapons on a breathtaking scale. But even Bond is unprepared for the speed of events, as a sting operation in a Cambridge hotel leads… Shares: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

License Renewed John Gardner · 1976 · ★ 3.5 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate James Bond pits his nerve and cunning against a dangerously deranged opponent -- one prepared to sacrifice most of the Western world to prove that only he can make it safe from accidental nuclear holocaust. Shares: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

Twinkle twinkle little spy Len Deighton · 1976 · ★ 4.5 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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

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: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spy Fiction

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: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spy Fiction

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: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spy Fiction

Icebreaker John Gardner · 1983 · ★ 4.0 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In Icebreaker, as indestructible as ever, Bond is back in another mission—a deadly assignment undertaken in cohort with Bond’s opposite numbers from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Israel in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland. Yet if resurgent fascism is the common enemy, who is really to be feared? Is it the breezy American or the voluptuous Israeli who is acting as a double agent?… Shares: English Spy stories, Secret service, Intelligence service, Spies

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré · 1962 · ★ 4.1 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. It serves as a sequel to le Carré's previous novels Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, which also featured the… Shares: English Spy stories, Intelligence service, Spies, Spy Fiction

The Spy's bedside book Graham Greene · 1957 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate For everyone who’s ever wondered what it really takes to be a spy, legendary author Graham Greene (The Third Man, The Quiet American) and his brother Hugh have compiled this irresistible selection of fiction, memoir, and tricks of the trade straight from the all-time masters of espionage. Here is a perfectly safe way to discover the dangerous secrets many spies have died to learn.Want to know how… Shares: Secret service, Spies, Spy Fiction

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