18 books like The Accident

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The Osterman Weekend Robert Ludlum · 1972 · ★ 3.3 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In Zurich . . . in Moscow . . . in Washington, D.C. . . . the machinery has already been set in motion. In a quiet suburb, an odd assortment of men and women gather for a momentous weekend. At stake is nothing less than the very existence of the United States of America—and, with it, the future of the entire free world.   Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Osterman Weekend   “Shattering .… Shares: United States. Central Intelligence Agency, United States, Spy Fiction

The amateur Robert Littell · 1981 · ★ 4.0 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Charlie Heller is an ace cryptographer for the Company. He's a quiet man with a quiet job in a back office. But when terrorists shoot his fiancě in cold blood and Heller learns that the Agency has decided not to pursue the terrorists responsible, his life takes an abrupt turn. He was not a blackmailer, but he will force the CIA's hand. He was not an assassin, but he will penetrate the Iron… Shares: United States. Central Intelligence Agency, United States, Spy Fiction

Lucky Day Chuck Tingle · 2025 · ★ 3.8 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Lucky Day is the latest from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays, where one woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world. Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon… Shares: Accidents, Thriller

Deep Lie Stuart Woods · 1986 · ★ 4.4 · 341p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Undersea espionage meets heart-stopping suspense in this action-packed thriller in the Will Lee series featuring Kate Rule—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.Sifting through reams of seemingly unrelated intelligence, CIA analyst Kate Rule discovers a chilling pattern: an ultrasecret Baltic submarine base...a crafty Russian spy-master in command...a carefully planned invasion… Shares: United States. Central Intelligence Agency, United States, Spy Fiction

Death will have your eyes James Sallis · 1997 · ★ 3.4 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race and working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is… Shares: United States, Spy Fiction

End Game David Baldacci · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Will Robie returns home from a mission overseas to discover that his boss--codenamed Blue Man--has vanished. His last known location was in remote Colorado, and there have been no other sightings or communications since. But there is violence brewing in this small town, and Robie and his sometime-partner Jessica Reel will be lucky if they make it out alive, with or without Blue Man. Shares: United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Assassins, United States, Thriller

The Winter of Frankie Machine Don Winslow · 2006 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Frankie Machianno, a hard-working entrepreneur, passionate lover, part-time surf bum, and full-time dad, is a widely recognized pillar of his waterfront community. He is also a retired hit man. Once better known as Frankie Machine, he was a brutally efficient killer. Now someone from his past wants him dead, and after a botched attempt on his life, Frankie sets out to find his potential killers.… Shares: Assassins, Thriller

Contact zero David Wolstencroft · 2005 · ★ 3.6 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Framed and dispossessed for a crime he did not commit during his first assignment, recent Spy School graduate Ben Locke learns that several of his fellow classmates have been murdered, a situation that forces him to search for the enigmatic Contact Zero, a mythical helper of Agency ex-members. Shares: Assassins, Spy Fiction

Palace of Treason Jason Matthews · 2015 · ★ 4.2 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate 843 pages (large print) ; 23 cm Shares: Spy Fiction, Thriller

A rising Thunder David Weber · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 557p · ≈ 18h · Moderate After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington has rooted out a plan designed to enslave the entire human species. Behind that plans lies the shadowy organization known as the Mesan Alignment. Task number one for Honor is to shut down and secure the wormhole network that is the source of the Star Kingdom's wealth and power--but also its greatest vulnerability. Yet this is… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

The Bourne ultimatum Robert Ludlum · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 611p · ≈ 20h · Moderate David Webb must once again assume the identity of assassin Jason Bourne as he matches wits with his mortal enemy, Carlos, a deadly and elusive terrorist known as "the Jackal," in a final confrontation. Shares: United States. Central Intelligence Agency, United States, Spy Fiction

Day of Judgement Henry Patterson · 1697 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Demanding From the back cover of Bantam paperback June 1980: June 26, 1963. JFK's triumphal visit to divided Berlin is about to trigger catastrophe for the Free World... East German Intelligence -- with the aid of a renegade American -- has set a diabolical snare. And now, only a desperate team of Allied operatives -- six monks, an American priest, a British major and a young woman doctor who has played… Shares: United States. Central Intelligence Agency, United States, Spy Fiction, Thriller

Star road Matthew J. Costello · 2014 · ★ 2.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Ivan Delgato, a former leader of a rebel group called the Runners, is released from jail on the condition that he carry out a secret mission for the World Council. His assignment is simple: stay under cover, but do absolutely anything necessary to reach the planet Omega IX and offer the renegade Runners clemency if they surrender-- which may be complicated since Ivan's brutally violent brother… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

The Utopia Experiment Kyle Mills · 2013 · ★ 4.3 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group - Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.When Christian Dresner of Dresner Industries unveils a device that will revolutionize the world - the Merge, a personal… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch, United States, Spy Fiction

Wolf among the stars Steve White · 2011 · ★ 3.6 "A near-future Earth has shaken off the devastating colonization by alien Lokaran invaders and totalitarian rule by the alien's human puppets. But now Earth is flung into galactic intrigue and war. The Lokaran empire teeters on the edge of a meltdown and a cabal of ancient enemies hope to use Earth as a proxy to destroy the empire and rule over a new Galactic dark age. Captain Andrew Roark, the… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Good news, bad news David Wolstencroft · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Who could have guessed that a bureaucratic error would send two secret agents to the same 'cover' job, working in a shabby photo-processing booth, where each must keep his identity secret from the other while awaiting orders. On discovering the mistake, the two men decide to go on the run together. Shares: Assassins, Spy Fiction, Thriller

Whiskey Beach Nora Roberts · 2013 · ★ 4.1 · 498p · ≈ 16h · Moderate For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore—and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home… A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of—but never arrested for—the murder of his soon-to-be-ex wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch, Thriller

The Spymasters W. E. B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV · 2012 · ★ 4.1 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Summer 1943. Two of the Allies' most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk - Operation Overlord's invasion of France, and the Manhattan Project's race to build the atomic bomb. A furious FDR turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan - and Donovan turns to his top agent, Dick Canidy, and his team. Their work is cut out for them. In the weeks to come they will fight not only the… Shares: Amerikanisches Englisch, United States, Spy Fiction

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