19 must-read thriller books like Condor: The Short Takes by James Grady

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Condor: The Short Takes

By: James Grady

3.46

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The legendary CIA spy is back--in a "superb" collection featuring an all-new novella, by the New Yo…

If you liked the thriller plot in Condor: The Short Takes by James Grady , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9) by Lee Child

1. One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

By: Lee Child

4.24

Format: 466 pages, Paperback

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops h… read more

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  • thriller
"I went to college. West Point is technically a college."

-Lee Child, One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

"I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. B…"

-Lee Child, One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)

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2. State of Emergency (Jericho Quinn #3)

By: Marc Cameron

4.24

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s countdown to Armageddon for an OSI agent in this thriller by theNew York Times-bestselling aut… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
Cover of A Night in the Lonesome October by Gahan Wilson, Roger Zelazny, James Warhola

3. A Night in the Lonesome October

By: Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

All is not what it seems… In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowl… read more

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4. Where Eagles Dare

By: Alistair MacLean , Clint Willis

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot tw… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
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5. Brute Force (Jericho Quinn #6)

By: Marc Cameron

3.50

Format: 192 pages,

THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICA In the aftermath of a devastating biological attack, America stands on the… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller

6. White Nights (Shetland Island, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.76

Format: 6 pages,

The electrifying follow up to the award-winningRaven Black Raven Blackreceived crime fiction's high… read more

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  • thriller

7. The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)

By: Guillermo del Toro , Chuck Hogan

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All w… read more

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8. Winter Prey (Lucas Davenport, #5)

By: John Sandford

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

It is winter in the remote, dark Wisconsin woods. But the chill in the local sheriff's bones has no… read more

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9. Silent Prey (Lucas Davenport, #4)

By: John Sandford

3.22

Format: 402 pages,

He was right. His guards slain, the brilliant, insane pathologist of Eyes of Preyflees to New York,… read more

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10. The Night Eternal (The Strain Trilogy, #3)

By: Guillermo del Toro , Chuck Hogan

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

It's been two years since the vampiric virus was unleashed in The Strain and the entire world now l… read more

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11. The Fall (The Strain Trilogy, #2)

By: Guillermo del Toro , Chuck Hogan

4.43

Format: 303 pages,

The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading across the… read more

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12. I Can See in the Dark

By: James Anderson , Karin Fossum

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

A brilliant stand-alone crime novel from Norway's original queen of crime. Riktor doesn't like the … read more

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13. The Ivory Grin

By: Ross Macdonald

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track d… read more

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14. Any Means Necessary (Luke Stone #1)

By: Jack Mars

4.50

Format: None pages,

When nuclear waste is stolen by jihadists in the middle of the night from an unguarded New York Cit… read more

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15. Night Prey (Lucas Davenport, #6)

By: John Sandford

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Porsche-driving Lucas Davenport, who has just returned to duty after recovering from a serious guns… read more

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16. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (Millennium, #7)

By: Karin Smirnoff

3.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. … read more

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  • thriller
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17. Breakneck (Arliss Cutter #5)

By: Marc Cameron

4.49

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A train ride through the austere beauty of Alaska’s icy wilderness becomes a harrowing fight for su… read more

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  • thriller
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18. Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more

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  • thriller
"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

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19. Unnatural History (Alex Delaware #38)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying thrillerof art… read more

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  • thriller
"Maybe attorneys attend schools where grades are based on how many word you put out."

-Jonathan Kellerman, Unnatural History (Alex Delaware #38)

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20. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

By: Martha Wells

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it res… read more

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"Why is this ship so old and shitty?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"I was having an emotion, and I hate that."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"But they were humans— who knows why they did anything?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

Cover of Rising Tiger (Scot Harvath #21) by Brad Thor

21. Rising Tiger (Scot Harvath #21)

By: Brad Thor

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Deadly operative Scot Harvath faces down the country’s most powerful enemy in #1 New York Times and… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
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22. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

Cover of Righteous Prey (Lucas Davenport #32, Virgil Flowers #14) by John Sandford

23. Righteous Prey (Lucas Davenport #32, Virgil Flowers #14)

By: John Sandford

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengea… read more

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  • thriller
Cover of The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20) by John Connolly

24. The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20)

By: John Connolly

4.15

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker’s hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes … read more

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  • thriller
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25. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

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  • thriller
"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

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26. Bad River (Arliss Cutter, #6)

By: Marc Cameron

4.61

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a remote village perched on Arctic permafrost to the Badlands of South Dakota, searching for a… read more

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  • thriller
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27. Condor: The Short Takes

By: James Grady

3.46

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The legendary CIA spy is back--in a "superb" collection featuring an all-new novella, by the New Yo… read more

Similar categories in James Grady's Condor: The Short Takes book and James Grady's Condor: The Short Takes

  • espionage
  • short stories
  • thriller
Cover of Fatal Intrusion (Sanchez & Heron, #1) by Jeffery Deaver

28. Fatal Intrusion (Sanchez & Heron, #1)

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.32

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

As a wave of murders grips Southern California, an unlikely pair must untangle the mysterious patte… read more

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  • thriller
Cover of Shadow of Doubt (Scot Harvath #23) by Brad Thor

29. Shadow of Doubt (Scot Harvath #23)

By: Brad Thor

4.59

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world shrouded in shadows, where doubt is the only weapon, can one spy expose the truth? A… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
Cover of Angel of Vengeance (Pendergast, #22) by Douglas Preston

30. Angel of Vengeance (Pendergast, #22)

By: Douglas Preston

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Con… read more

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  • thriller
Cover of Blood Lines (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor #2) by Nelson DeMille

31. Blood Lines (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor #2)

By: Nelson DeMille

4.32

Format: 508 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, Blood Lines features the r… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller

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4.24

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3.44

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Marc Cameron

3.50

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4.15

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4.67

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4.36

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