Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
By: David Downing
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author David Downing, master of historical espionage, comes a heart-wrenching depi…
Want to Read $ 9.99"It is a shameful spectacle to see how the whole democratic world is oozing sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish people, but remains hard-hearted and obdurate when it comes to helping them.' More than a little rich when coming from the tormentor in chief, but hard to dispute."-David Downing, Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
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1. The Prodigal Spy
By: Joseph Kanon
4.29
Format: 192 pages,
What if the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s had actually uncovered a spy? The bestselling author… read more
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2. The Arms Maker of Berlin
By: Dan Fesperman
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This powerfully suspenseful new novel from Dan Fesperman takes us deep into the early 1940s in Swit… read more
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3. Leaving Berlin
By: Joseph Kanon
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Books 2015 * Wall Street JournalBest Books of 2015 The accla… read more
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4. Spies of the Balkans (Night Soldiers, #11)
By: Alan Furst
3.54
Format: None pages,
Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece--the cit… read more
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5. A Hero of France (Night Soldiers, #14)
By: Alan Furst
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as "the best in the business," … read more
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6. Los Alamos
By: Joseph Kanon
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A successful thriller tells an exciting, satisfying story and lets us look at the lives of some int… read more
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7. Then We Take Berlin (Joe Wilderness, #1)
By: John Lawton
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Joe Wilderness is a World War II orphan, a condition that he thinks excuses him from common moralit… read more
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8. The Angry Hills
By: Leon Uris
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A writer moves to Greece just as the Nazis invade, and he soon becomes a pawn in a dangerous game o… read more
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10. Defectors
By: Joseph Kanon
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlinand The Good Germancomes a thrilling and richly imagin… read more
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11. 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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"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
12. Moscow Exile (Joe Wilderness #4)
By: John Lawton
4.07
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Moscow Blues begins in Washington, D.C., in the fragile postwar period where the Red Scare is growi… read more
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13. Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller)
By: Simon Scarrow
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1940. The world holds its breath and hopes for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s grip on po… read more
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14. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)
By: Martin Cruz Smith
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more
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15. Agent in the Shadows (The Wolf Pack Spies #3)
By: Alex Gerlis
4.41
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
June, 1943. In Lyon, the capital of the French resistance, a secret meeting is held under orders fr… read more
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16. Sea of Spies (Richard Prince, #2)
By: Alex Gerlis
4.29
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
The Allies are desperate to stop neutral Turkey supplying vital materials to the Nazis – materials … read more
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17. Agent in Berlin (The Wolf Pack Spies #1)
By: Alex Gerlis
4.23
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
War is coming to Europe. British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents i… read more
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18. Agent in Peril (The Wolf Pack Spies #2)
By: Alex Gerlis
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
To what lengths will the British go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? An unmissable Sec… read more
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19. 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
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20. 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
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21. Munich Wolf
By: Rory Clements
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more
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22. Under Occupation (Night Soldiers, #15)
By: Alan Furst
3.41
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
From the master of espionage and intrigue, this novel about heroic resistance fighters in 1942 occu… read more
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23. Prince of Spies (Richard Prince, #1)
By: Alex Gerlis
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern… read more
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24. Hammer to Fall (Joe Wilderness #3)
By: John Lawton
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as goo… read more
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25. Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1)
By: Simon Scarrow
4.20
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia … read more
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26. The Gimlet Slip
By: Fiona Davis
3.53
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A headstrong, fast-driving young woman gets pulled into a dangerous bootlegging scheme in this thri… read more
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27. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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28. Every Spy a Traitor (The Double Agent series Book 1)
By: Alex Gerlis
4.11
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
'Gerlis is at the top of his game' Paul Vidich, author of Beirut Station 'Utterly gripping and sta… read more
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29. The Accomplice
By: Joseph Kanon
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Named “The Book of the Year” by Lee Child in The Guardian From “master of the genre” ( The Washi… read more
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30. The Man from Section Five: A Brinley Knight Spy Thriller (The Man from MI5 Book 1)
By: Jana Petken
4.34
Format: 569 pages, Kindle Edition
Book two coming November 2022Petken delivers a compelling story. As the outbreak of war approaches,… read more
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31. Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
By: David Downing
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author David Downing, master of historical espionage, comes a heart-wrenching depi… read more
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"It is a shameful spectacle to see how the whole democratic world is oozing sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish people, but remains hard-hearted and obdurate when it comes to helping them.' More th…"-David Downing, Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
