Espionage

Spy fiction, literature concerning the forms of espionage, was a sub-genre derived from the novel during the nineteenth century, which then evolved into a discrete genre before the First World War (1914–18), when governments established modern intelligence agencies in the early twentieth century. As a genre, spy fiction is thematically related to the novel of adventure, the thriller and the politico–military thriller.

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The Last Mandarin
Spies, Lies, and Alibis
I, Spy
The Fourth Option
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Ghosts of Sicily: The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy
The Afternoon Tea Murders (The Secret Detective Agency, #4)
Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War
The Last Mandarin
Nash Falls (Walter Nash, #1)
Revenge Prey (Lucas Davenport #36)
The Fourth Option
The Summer Guests (The Martini Club, #2)
Family of Spies
Eleven Numbers
Cold Zero
The Women of Arlington Hall
End Game (William Warwick, #8)
Clown Town (Slough House, #9)
Never
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Antihero (Orphan X, #11)
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644 books — 1,636 voters
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)
Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)

Ellen Brazer
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world. — Winston S. Churchill
Ellen Brazer, Clouds Across the Sun

William Kely McClung
Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.
William Kely McClung, Black Fire

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