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The Killing (CHERUB #4) Robert Muchamore · 2006 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When James is given the mission of digging up leads on Leon, a small-time crook with big money, James unravels a larger plot than expected with the only person who might know the truth being a deceased eighteen-year-old boy. Shares Great Britain. MI5, Intelligence service, Spies, Teenagers

Divine Madness (CHERUB #5) Robert Muchamore · 2006 · ★ 4.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Great Britain. MI5, Undercover operations, Intelligence service, Spies with this book.

Choose Your Own Adventure - Beyond Escape! R. A. Montgomery · 1986 · 118p · ≈ 3h · Moderate In the year 2041 you, the reader, are Chief of Operations for a peaceful country. Your two best agents are missing and an enemy spy has stolen your topsecret files. You decide what to do next. Shares Spies, Spy Fiction, Adventure, Children's fiction

Secret Agents Four Donald J. Sobol · 1967 · ★ 3.9 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Several boys chase a suspicious man who turns out to be a spy, so the boys form society VACUUM which will aid a national organization of secret agents in apprehending other spies. Shares Spies, Spy Fiction, Children's fiction

Scorpia Anthony Horowitz · 2004 · ★ 4.2 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Still reeling from the terrible discovery he has made about his father, teenage MI6 superspy, Alex Rider, is determined to find out more. Travelling to Italy, he manages to infiltrate the glamorous world of Claudia Rothman, beautiful society hostess and member of the international criminal organization, Scorpia. She reveals that Alex's father was murdered by MI6, in an operation masterminded by… Shares Terrorism, Spies, Orphans, Spy Fiction

Meltdown Andy McNab · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Fourth in a gripping, action-packed sequence of thrillers about Danny and Fergus Watts, from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero, Andy McNab, and Robert Rigby, veteran of many successful TV screenplays. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers.A lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as Meltdown, is threatening to destabilize society. Dudley knows that the security services have to… Shares Terrorism, Spies, Orphans, Great Britain

Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz · 2000 · ★ 4.4 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Moderate They told him his uncle died in a car accident. Fourteen-year-old Alex knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's windshield confirm his suspicions. But nothing prepares him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for MI6—Britain's top secret intelligence agency. Recruited to find his uncle's killers and complete his final mission, Alex suddenly finds… Shares Terrorism, Spies, Orphans, Spy Fiction

Scorpia Rising Anthony Horowitz · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This is the ninth (and possibly the concluding) installment to the Alex Rider series. The book was released in March, 2011. Notably, it portrays the ultimate destruction of the terrorist organization SCORPIA, the presence of which, as a main group of antagonists, was felt from the fourth through ninth installment of the series. Shares Terrorism, Spies, Orphans, Spy Fiction

Cherub 10 The General Robert Muchamore · 2008 · ★ 4.3 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This book is actually The General, the 10th book of the CHERUB series. James Adams and his fellow Cherubs along with staff head out to Nebraska to participate in a war game. Shares Spies, Teenagers, Spy Fiction, Adventure

Snakehead Anthony Horowitz · 2007 · ★ 4.1 · 406p · ≈ 13h · Moderate What goes up must come down, and when we last saw Alex Rider, he was as up as can be—in outer space. When he crash lands off the coast of Australia, the Australian Secret Service recruits him to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across South East Asia. Known as snakeheads, the gangs smuggle drugs, weapons, and worst of all, people. Alex accepts the assignment, in part for the chance… Shares Terrorism, Spies, Orphans, Spy Fiction

Assumed identity David Morrell · 1993 · ★ 3.8 · 500p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Filled with nonstop suspense and psychological insight, this is the story of Brendon Buchanan, undercover intelligence operative and master of over two hundred false identities: a man forced to assume the most elusive and treacherous identity of all—his own. Tracking the most devastating enemy he has ever encountered, trapped by his love of two enigmatic women, he races through a sinister… Shares Undercover operations, Spies, Spy Fiction, Adventure

Ark Angel Anthony Horowitz · 2005 · ★ 4.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The sniper's bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive...just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire… Shares Terrorism, Spies, Orphans, Spy Fiction

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 Intelligence service, Spies, Great Britain, Spy Fiction

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 Intelligence service, Spies, Spy Fiction, Adventure

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 Intelligence service, Spies, Great Britain, Spy Fiction

Tanner On Ice Lawrence Block · 1998 · ★ 3.5 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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 Undercover operations, Intelligence service, Spy Fiction

Forever begins tomorrow Bruce Coville · 1986 · ★ 4.1 · 213p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Spy Fiction, Adventure, Children's fiction with this book.

Sly Spy Marjorie Weinman Sharmat · 1990 · ★ 5.0 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate E.J. the spy tries to uncover a secret that Olivia is keeping for a client. Shares Spies, Spy Fiction, Children's fiction

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