18 books like The Whole Truth

What to read after The Whole Truth — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Copper Scroll Joel C. Rosenberg · 2006 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Saddam is gone, Arafat is dead, and a new Iraq is rising. But when a suicide bomber strikes Washington and assassinations unfold from London to Los Angeles, Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy are drawn back into a world of terror they thought was over. At the heart of the mystery lies a 2,000-year-old scroll describing unimaginable treasures that could lead to the Third Jewish Temple. Some call it… Shares: International relations, Political Fiction, Thriller

Deliver us from evil David Baldacci · 2010 · ★ 4.1 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Thriller with A Shaw as the hero. The storyline is good, action packed and keeps you turning the pages. This is a story where a British organization researchers find, track and take down evil individuals( in this story An Ukraine devil). Frank's organization team's up with them. A nice exciting story. Shares: International relations, Women journalists, Thriller

Night Film Marisha Pessl · 2013 · ★ 3.9 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Ashley Cordova is dead. Scott McGrath, a veteran investigative journalist wants to know why. The reason why the death of this beautiful, young woman has piqued his interest so much is because of who her father is. He is Stanislas Cordova, the world famous director of strange cult/horror films that hasn't been seen publicly in over thirty years. The last time McGrath got involved with Cordova he… Shares: Investigative reporting, Thriller

Operation Shylock Philip Roth · 1993 · ★ 3.2 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "One of Roth's grand inventions. . . . [He is] a comic genius." -The New York Review of Books"A brilliant novel of ideas. . . . Roth has gone farther into his own genius than he ever has before." -The Nation"The uncontested master of comic irony." -Time"Diabolically clever, engaging. . . . [A] white-water unstoppable narrative. . . . Roth is so spelndidly convincing. . . that the result is kind… Shares: Intelligence service in fiction, Intelligence service

The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy · 1984 · ★ 4.1 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision...the Red October is heading west.The Americans want her.The Russians want her back.And the most incredible chase in history is on...The Hunt for Red October is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so accurate and convincing that the author was rumored to have… Shares: Intelligence service in fiction, Intelligence service, Thriller

The laughing monsters Denis Johnson · 2014 · ★ 3.2 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "A literary spy thriller set in Africa, where an intelligence agent is caught up in a get rich quick scheme"-- Shares: Political Fiction, Intelligence service, Thriller

Modesty Blaise O'Donnell, Peter · 1965 · ★ 4.0 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In her first adventure for British Intelligence Modesty Blaise with her loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, must foil a multi-million pound diamond heist. They travel from London to the South of France, across the Mediterranean to Cairo before battling, against impossible odds, a private army of professional killers. Shares: Intelligence service in fiction, 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: Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, Thriller

Damascus Countdown Joel C. Rosenberg · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 478p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Israel successfully launches a first strike on Iran, taking out all of the nuclear sites and six of their nuclear warheads. American president William Jackson threatens to support a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Jewish State for unprovoked and unwarranted acts of aggression. Meanwhile, CIA operative David Shirazi has infiltrated the Iranian regime and intercepted top secret… Shares: International relations, Intelligence officers

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: Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, Thriller

The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing · 1946 · ★ 3.5 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Challenging George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. Things happen. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her… Shares: Investigative reporting, Thriller

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, Thriller

The Spy Who Loved Me Ian Fleming · 1962 · ★ 3.4 · 203p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land. With only a supercharged Vespa and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding roads into the pine forests of the Adirondacks. After stopping at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court and being coerced into caretaking at the vacant motel for the night, Viv opens the door to two armed… Shares: Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, Thriller

Stone Cold David Baldacci · 2007 · ★ 4.2 · 391p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Stone Cold is a crime thriller written by David Baldacci. This is the third book to feature the Camel Club, a small group of Washington, D.C. civilian misfits led by "Oliver Stone", an ex-Green Beret and a former CIA trained assassin. The book was initially published on November 6, 2007 by Grand Central Publishing. Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel… Shares: Political Fiction, Intelligence service, Thriller

Understanding The Intelligence Cycle Mark Phythian · 2013 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process. The concept of the intelligence cycle has been central to the study of intelligence. As Intelligence Studies has established itself as a distinctive branch of Political Science, it has generated its… Shares: International relations, 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: Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, Thriller

Personal Demon Kelley Armstrong · 2008 · ★ 4.1 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, Kelley Armstrong has created a scintillating realm where the supernatural and the human coexist on the edge of darkness, romance, and eternity. Now Armstrong tells the captivating tale of a young woman with an insatiable lust for danger. She can't help it. It's in her blood. Tabloid reporter Hope Adams appears to live the life of an ordinary… Shares: Women journalists, Thriller

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 officers, Intelligence service, Thriller

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