14 Best thriller books like Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2) by Martin Cruz Smith

Cover of Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2) by Martin Cruz Smith

Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

4.15

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

In the long-awaited sequel to Gorky Park, Arkady Renko returns to Russia to work on the Polar Star,…

If you liked the thriller plot in Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2) by Martin Cruz Smith , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2) by Martin Cruz Smith

1. Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

4.15

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

In the long-awaited sequel to Gorky Park, Arkady Renko returns to Russia to work on the Polar Star,… read more

Similar categories in Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • russia
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9) by John Le Carré

2. A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)

By: John Le Carré

3.88

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, other… read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run."

-John Le Carré, A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)

"شما همه مریض هستید. شما جاسوس‌ها. شماها درمان درد نیستید، خود مرض هستید. هنرمندان ارضای خودتان هستید. بازی‌تان هم برای ارضای خودتان است. ولی پیش خودتان خیال می‌کنید بزرگ‌ترین عقلای کوفتی جهان شماهایی…"

-John Le Carré, A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)

"خب، بالاخره وقت حساب پس دادن است. بالاخره وقتش رسیده برای سوال‌های سخت جواب‌های سرراست بگیرم. سوالاتی مثل جورج، آیا تو آگاهانه انسانیت را در من سرکوب کردی، یا من هم جزء عوارض جانبی بودم؟ یا مثل انسان…"

-John Le Carré, A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)

Cover of Freedom is Not Free (Rashard "Stone" Mysteries #1) by King  James

3. Freedom is Not Free (Rashard "Stone" Mysteries #1)

By: King James

3.88

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Freedom is Not Free is about a Houston Police Officer named Rashard “Stone” Williams. Stone is apar… read more

Similar categories in King James's Freedom is Not Free (Rashard "Stone" Mysteries #1) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

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4. Bannerless (The Bannerless Saga, #1)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.70

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investi… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Bannerless (The Bannerless Saga, #1) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon

5. 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

Similar categories in Joseph Kanon's Los Alamos book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3) by Mick Herron

6. Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)

By: Mick Herron

4.05

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he's not intending to check out again — but then he meets Katr… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Women choose men hoping they'll change. Men choose women hoping they won't."

-Mick Herron, Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)

"Don't. Don't do anything. Just go. Now." It was always possible that if you very quickly told a man four times to do something, he'd get the message."

-Mick Herron, Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)

Cover of Then We Take Berlin (Joe Wilderness, #1) by John Lawton

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

Similar categories in John Lawton's Then We Take Berlin (Joe Wilderness, #1) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
Cover of Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6) by Adrian McKinty

8. Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.33

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This i… read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has tra…"

-Adrian McKinty, Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

Cover of Zoo Station (John Russell, #1) by David Downing

9. Zoo Station (John Russell, #1)

By: David Downing

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent fifteen years in Berlin, where his German… read more

Similar categories in David Downing's Zoo Station (John Russell, #1) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Blood Sweep (Posadas County Mystery, #10) by Steven F. Havill

10. Blood Sweep (Posadas County Mystery, #10)

By: Steven F. Havill

4.00

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, to… read more

Similar categories in Steven F. Havill's Blood Sweep (Posadas County Mystery, #10) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. The Sacred Well Murders

By: Susan Rowland

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young Ame… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rowland's The Sacred Well Murders book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"Take it away,"

-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

"I EAT THE DARK"

-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

"So, Mr. Jeffreys,"

-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

"Wife of Lir eat horse."

-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

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12. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Secret Hours book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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

Cover of The Wild Dead (The Bannerless Saga #2) by Carrie Vaughn

13. The Wild Dead (The Bannerless Saga #2)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.91

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Mysteries and murder abound in the sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award–winning Bannerless   A centur… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's The Wild Dead (The Bannerless Saga #2) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1) by Lee Matthew Goldberg

14. Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

By: Lee Matthew Goldberg

4.28

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

A PULSE-POUNDING THRILLER THAT ASKS HOW FAR WE'RE WILLING TO SHED OUR MORALS IN ORDER TO HELP THE O… read more

Similar categories in Lee Matthew Goldberg's Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"Any wish fulfilled...for the right price."

-Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

"Honey, I'm Marilyn Fucking Monroe. And don't you forget it."

-Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

"On an unseasonably warm winter's morning, I took my first life."

-Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today."

-Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

Cover of Moscow Exile (Joe Wilderness #4) by John Lawton

15. 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

Similar categories in John Lawton's Moscow Exile (Joe Wilderness #4) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • russia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
Cover of How to Betray Your Country (Discipline Files, #2) by Wolff James

16. How to Betray Your Country (Discipline Files, #2)

By: Wolff James

3.95

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

PW STARRED “Brilliant sequel to 2018’s Beside the Syrian Sea. James Wolff skillfully portrays an e… read more

Similar categories in Wolff James's How to Betray Your Country (Discipline Files, #2) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

Cover of Beholden (Marlowe Black Mystery, #1) by Gabriel F.W. Koch

17. Beholden (Marlowe Black Mystery, #1)

By: Gabriel F.W. Koch

4.29

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Marlowe Black, a WWII combat veteran, walks the streets of New York with a PI license to serve just… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel F.W. Koch's Beholden (Marlowe Black Mystery, #1) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
Cover of The Man in the Corduroy Suit (Discipline Files, #3) by James Wolff

18. The Man in the Corduroy Suit (Discipline Files, #3)

By: James Wolff

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“A wonderful, artful, absorbing espionage novel.” Adam Brookes, author of Night HeronThe story of a… read more

Similar categories in James Wolff's The Man in the Corduroy Suit (Discipline Files, #3) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2) by Gabriel F.W. Koch

19. Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

By: Gabriel F.W. Koch

4.30

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Then comes the brutal announcement that his pregnant fiancée has committed suicide. Marlowe simply … read more

Similar categories in Gabriel F.W. Koch's Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"Death is the ultimate test of faith."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

"You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

"The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

"Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

Cover of Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1) by Behcet Kaya

20. Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.25

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

While enjoying his usual Friday night after dinner beer at a local restaurant, Jacques (Jack) Ludef… read more

Similar categories in Behcet Kaya's Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1) book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"Jack? It’s Margeaux."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Ludicrous? Seems like wherever you go, trouble follows you."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"What is it about being ill and wanting to go home? This time there was no Katy to boat sit, so I left Emma out on the deck where she had access to her Emma cage. I closed up as best I could and decid…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Darling,’ she said. ‘Darling, darling, Jack…,’ she repeated. It had an echo chamber quality. I felt dizzy and the room began turning. I grabbed the edge of the table thinking I needed to hold on to s…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

Cover of Phantom Orbit by David Ignatius

21. Phantom Orbit

By: David Ignatius

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A subtle and masterful novel from a prescient voice on the cutting edge of spy literature. David… read more

Similar categories in David Ignatius's Phantom Orbit book and Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • russia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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