18 books like To Catch a King

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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: Chronological Period, Historical - General, Unabridged Audio - Fiction, Espionage

The Huntress Kate Quinn · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Instant New York Times Bestseller!"...compulsively readable historical fiction…[a] powerful novel about unusual women facing sometimes insurmountable odds with grace, grit, love and tenacity.” - Kristin Hannah, The Washington Post One of Marie Claire's Best Women’s Fiction Books of the YearOne of BookBub's Biggest Books of the Year“If you enjoyed “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” read “The… Shares: War & Military, Nazis, Espionage, World War II

The real diary of a real boy Henry A. Shute · 1902 · ★ 3.0 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The diary of an exuberant and mischievous eleven-year-old boy growing up in the town of Exeter, N.H., in the 1860's. Shares: Cultural Region, Chronological Period

Horizon, a novel Helen MacInnes · 1946 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A wartime story of conflicting emotions and loyalties. Some Tyrolean citizens, north and south, sick of being under Italian rule, look to the Nazi invasion as a liberation, their promises of freedom as something worth fighting for. Other wiser heads, including liberated POW Roy know the Nazi's treachery. Roy is holed up for 8 months in a family home as liaison between the local resistance and… Shares: Espionage, World War II, Spy Fiction, Thriller

The river line Charles Morgan · 1949 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Includes the plays The River Line, The Flashing Stream and The Burning Glass Charles Morgan was a distinguished novelist before he moved onto stage drama, with his reputation as a major dramatist established by his first play, The Flashing Stream. Morgan was unique for combining the roles of principal dramatic critic of The Times withthat of a practicing dramatist. The Daily Herald wrote that… Shares: Espionage, World War II, Spy Fiction

Red Land, Black Land Barbara Mertz · 1966 · ★ 4.1 · 385p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Describes how the Egyptians lived, worked, played, fought, worshiped, spent their home and political life and prepared for death. Shares: Cultural Region, Chronological Period

The Vanished Messenger Edward Phillips Oppenheim · 1914 · ★ 3.8 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Challenging There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2 possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great terminus. The station master, however, was there himself, with an inspector in attendance. A dark, thick set man, wearing a long travelling ulster and a Homburg hat, and… Shares: Espionage, Spy Fiction

The kingdom of the blind Edward Phillips Oppenheim · 1909 · ★ 3.9 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging E. Phillips Oppenheim’s 1916 thriller follows the search for a German spy in Great Britain during World War I, and highlights wartime tensions among the British upper class. Shares: Espionage, Spy Fiction

Hannibal Rising Thomas Harris · 2006 · ★ 3.6 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Hannibal Rising is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 2006. It is a prequel to his three previous books featuring his most famous character, the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The novel was released with an initial printing of at least 1.5 million copies[1] and met with a mixed critical response. Shares: Nazis, World War II, Adventure, Thriller

The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy · 2001 · ★ 4.2 · 530p · ≈ 17h · Moderate A compulsive read' Kate Atkinson, author of Behind the Scenes at the MuseumManhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war was over, and Eric Smythe's party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara - an independent, canny young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked a gatecrasher, Jack Malone - a US Army journalist… Shares: Historical - General, War & Military

The life eaters David Brin · 2003 · ★ 2.2 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Roused by sorcery and a stench of holocaust, Norse gods have returned to the mortal plane, tilting the scales of World War II and cheating the allies of victory. Nearly a generation later the war still rages, this time in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The tide has been set for a final battle as a few heroes gather their courage - and their most advanced technology - for a final stand against the… Shares: Nazis, World War II

Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian · 1969 · ★ 4.1 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate This is book 1 in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: the conversational idiom of… Shares: Historical - General, Unabridged Audio - Fiction

Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein · 2012 · ★ 4.3 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can. Shares: Nazis, Espionage, World War II, Spy Fiction

Mr. Churchill's Secretary Susan Elia MacNeal · 2012 · ★ 3.9 · 517p · ≈ 17h · Moderate "London, 1940, and Maggie Hope has graduated at the top of her college class, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for code breaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in government, and Maggie finds that working for the prime minister affords her a level of clearance she could never have… Shares: Nazis, World War II

Sky Hunters Jack Shane · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Bobby Autry is one of the best in the world at what he does. An elite combat chopper pilot, Autry has been tested under fire and always come out on top. But his new assigment might change all that. He's been tasked to lead a new unit of the elite Night Stalkers, a unit that can outfly the rest of the pilots in SOAR (Special Operations Air Regiment), outshoot the best gunners in the SEALs or… Shares: War stories, Thriller

The Valhalla exchange Henry Patterson · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 253p · ≈ 8h · Moderate One of the most intriguing war fiction ever written...the perfect blend of the gruesome realities of war and captivating fiction plot that takes you from the war ravaged Berlin to the serene Bavarian alps where another war is being fought...the war between humanitarian emotions and military discipline...two men Both of the same thoughts in opposite uniforms..the truth about how men in power use… Shares: Nazis, World War II, Thriller

SS-GB Len Deighton · 1978 · ★ 3.8 · 367p · ≈ 12h · Moderate For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds… Shares: Espionage, World War II, Thriller

The Englishman's Boy Guy Vanderhaeghe · 1996 · ★ 3.5 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Winner of the 1996 Governor-General's Literary Award. Shares: Historical - General, Unabridged Audio - Fiction

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