18 best-selling british literature books like Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré

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Agent Running in the Field

By: John Le Carré

3.85

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent…

"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organizado russo."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gosto em fazer-lhe ver o engano."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Britain’s consequent unqualified dependence on the United States in an era when the US is heading straight down the road to institutional racism and neo-fascism, is an unmitigated clusterfuck bar none."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

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1. Smoke and Whispers (The Oxford Investigations, #4)

By: Mick Herron

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Oxford private detective Zoë Boehm turns up dead in Newcastle, launching her friend Sarah Tucker in… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"If time was the means by which the universe prevented everything from happening at once, coincidence was the excuse it used when things occasionally did."

-Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers (The Oxford Investigations, #4)

"A waitress had joined the gathering throng; was cruising with a bottle of fizz, topping glasses, all bright-eyed and shiny. Sarah guessed someone had once told her her eyes were her best feature, bec…"

-Mick Herron, Smoke and Whispers (The Oxford Investigations, #4)

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2. The Way Home

By: None , George P. Pelecanos

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

By: Len Deighton

3.93

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Pa… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • spy thriller
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  • crime
"He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf."

-Len Deighton, The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

"I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information." "And?" "The most valuable?" "People with information…"

-Len Deighton, The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

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4. Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

By: Mick Herron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missin… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
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  • crime
  • audiobook
"He had never really lost his youth; he just kept it in a small room off the landing."

-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

"So she was waiting for the lecture; prolonged silence always led to the lecture. It was the last thing Sarah needed, and a list of the first things would have filled a book: a hug, a bath, an ear, so…"

-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

"On discovering a fire, the instructions ran, shout Fire and try to put it out. It was useful, heart-of the matter advice, and could be extended almost indefinitely in any direction. On discovering yo…"

-Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)

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5. London Match (Bernard Samson, #3)

By: Len Deighton

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Mass Market Paperback

With treason epidemic in London Central, a cloud of suspicion passes over each senior agent, and ea… read more

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  • espionage
  • british literature
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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6. Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2)

By: Len Deighton

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Now on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City. British intelligence agent Bernard Samson … read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

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  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
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8. A Death in Summer (Quirke #4)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

One of The Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of 2011 One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent e… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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9. Goodbye Mickey Mouse

By: Len Deighton

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback

ENGLAND 1944 In Goodbye Mickey Mouse, Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, mul… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction

10. Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)

By: Len Deighton

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

When a valuable agent behind the Iron Curtain signals he wants out, it's up to Bernard Samson, once… read more

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11. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more

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12. The Trinity Six

By: Charles Cumming

3.37

Format: 204 pages,

The most closely-guarded secret of the Cold War is about to be exposed - the identity of a SIXTH me… read more

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13. A Foreign Country (Thomas Kell, #1)

By: Charles Cumming

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, New York Timesbestselling author of The Trinity Six,comes a com… read more

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14. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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15. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • spy thriller
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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16. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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  • mystery thriller
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  • audiobook
"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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18. London Rules (Slough House, #5)

By: Mick Herron

4.34

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more

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  • mystery thriller
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  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

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19. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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  • mystery thriller
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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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20. Kennedy 35 (BOX 88 #3)

By: Charles Cumming

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Veteran agent Lachlan Kite―“a spy for the 21st century” ( Daily Mail )―reckons with the fallout fro… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • british literature
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21. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

By: Mick Herron

4.37

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • spy thriller
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  • audiobook
"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"

-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

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22. Reconstruction

By: Mick Herron

4.09

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

What should have been a simple pick-up turns into a day-long nightmare for Bad Sam Chapman.When an … read more

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  • british literature
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  • mystery
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  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. Agent Running in the Field

By: John Le Carré

3.85

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • spy thriller
  • politics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organ…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gost…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Br…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

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24. The Russian Wife (Brock and Kolla #14)

By: Barry Maitland

3.92

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When the Russian wife of the owner of one of the most valuable private collections of modern art in… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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25. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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26. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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  • mystery thriller
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

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27. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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  • mystery thriller
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  • thriller
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  • audiobook
"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

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28. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"...What did you say?"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

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29. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

By: Mick Herron

4.28

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more

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  • mystery thriller
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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

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30. The Sandpit

By: Nicholas Shakespeare

3.42

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'A remarkable contemporary thriller – with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carré about it – but also… read more

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