Espionage/Spy Thriller Authors

John le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British author best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, le Carré became an Irish citizen. Read any his many espionage/spy thrillers.

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Call for the Dead (#1 of the 9-Book George Smiley Series)

The Little Drummer Girl

The Tailor of Panama

The Mission Song

The Night Manager​

Len Deighton

Len Deighton's literary career soared with the publication of his first novel, "The Ipcress File," in 1962, coinciding with the release of the first James Bond film adaptation. Deighton's spy novels explored the complexities of double, triple, and even quadruple agents, whose loyalties remained elusive even to themselves.. Read any of his espionage/spy thrillers.​

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The Ipcress File

Berlin Game

London Match

Our Man in Havana

London Match

Alan Furst

Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944. Read any of his espionage/spy thrillers.

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Night Soldiers 12-Book Series

Under Occupation

A Hero of France

Midnight in Europe

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Daniel Silva

Daniel Silva is an American award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author whose specialty is in the thrillers and espionage novels. He is best known for his Gabriel Allon series and also noted for his service as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Read any of his espionage/spy novels..

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The Kill Artist (First in the Gabriel Allon 24-B0ok Series)

Mark of the Assassin and The Marching Season (2-book Series)

​The Unlikely Spy