5 Must-Read Spy Novels
When you think about a strong spy thriller, you think of a novel that slowly builds over the chapters and has an even pace. The mystery must be crafted in a way that’s intricate, yet easily understood by readers. The authors need to weave a web of red herrings and questionable truths to build the suspense.
Here are the five books that everyone must pick up if they want to be engulfed in a rich spy story.
In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She’s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie’s parents banish her to Europe to have her “little problem” taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.
Jason Bourne does not remember who he is or what he does because he suffers from amnesia. He doesn’t even know the status of Jason Bourne and what secrets the name carries.
It is considered Tom Clancy’s masterpiece. 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 thus begins the most incredible chase in history.
A young wife is forced to confront a decades-old deadly secret when a medium connects her to her dead grandfather. A vicious psychopath wants ultimate revenge against Savich, but first, she wants to destroy what he loves most — his family.
Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentences to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of twenty-thousand. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of counterespionage agency that “proved” Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans.
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