11 Best thriller books like Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes

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Cold Victory

By: Karl Marlantes

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in whic…

If you liked the thriller plot in Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Peacock and the Sparrow

By: I.S. Berry

3.81

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more

Similar categories in I.S. Berry's The Peacock and the Sparrow book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

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2. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • historical
  • adult
  • war
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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3. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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5. Union Station

By: David Downing

3.82

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating historical thriller, a British journalist (and former spy) is adrift in McCarth… read more

Similar categories in David Downing's Union Station book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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7. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

8. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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9. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

Cover of The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) by Andrey Kurkov

10. The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1)

By: Andrey Kurkov

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov, a perplexing mystery from a world-renowned literary master that i… read more

Similar categories in Andrey Kurkov's The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • russia
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

Similar categories in Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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12. The Wealth of Shadows

By: Graham Moore

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more

Similar categories in Graham Moore's The Wealth of Shadows book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • historical
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Kanon's Shanghai book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • historical
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Hard by a Great Forest

By: Leo Vardiashvili

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more

Similar categories in Leo Vardiashvili's Hard by a Great Forest book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • russia
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Stolen Child

By: Ann Hood

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this mo… read more

Similar categories in Ann Hood's The Stolen Child book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. A Wild and Heavenly Place

By: Robin Oliveira

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Mary Sutter comes a sweeping story of star… read more

Similar categories in Robin Oliveira's A Wild and Heavenly Place book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes

17. Cold Victory

By: Karl Marlantes

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in whic… read more

Similar categories in Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • russia
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Ilium

By: Lea Carpenter

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap … read more

Similar categories in Lea Carpenter's Ilium book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • russia
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Trust Her

By: Flynn Berry

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters find they can't outrun their past in the riveting new thriller from the New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Flynn Berry's Trust Her book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Holy City

By: Henry Wise

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Holy City is an amazing piece of work. A Southern novel that examines the pathos and ethos of smal… read more

Similar categories in Henry Wise's Holy City book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

20 Best fiction books like Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes

Transform Your Habits

The Peacock and the Sparrow

I.S. Berry

3.81

Transform Your Habits

City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

Don Winslow

4.42

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Union Station

David Downing

3.82

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20 best-selling fiction books like The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Phantom Orbit

David Ignatius

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Peacock and the Sparrow

I.S. Berry

3.81

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