17 best-selling espionage books like The Visiting Professor by Robert Littell

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The Visiting Professor

By: Robert Littell

3.56

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Lemuel Falk, "a Russian theoretical chaoticist on the lam from terrestrial chaos," has been applyin…

If you liked the espionage plot in The Visiting Professor by Robert Littell , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Cold War Swap (Mac McCorckle, #1) by Ross Thomas

1. The Cold War Swap (Mac McCorckle, #1)

By: Ross Thomas

3.98

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

At the height of the Cold War, two Americans are runnng a bar called Mac’s Place in the West German… read more

Similar categories in Ross Thomas's The Cold War Swap (Mac McCorckle, #1) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
Cover of London Match (Bernard Samson, #3) by Len Deighton

2. 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

Similar categories in Len Deighton's London Match (Bernard Samson, #3) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
Cover of Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2) by Len Deighton

3. 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

Similar categories in Len Deighton's Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction

4. Out Of Sight

By: Elmore Leonard

4.20

Format: None pages,

Before there was Raylan, there was Sisco... U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco is on the hunt for world-class… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Out Of Sight book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

5. 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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6. Strip

By: Thomas Perry

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu "Manco" Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman… read more

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7. 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 Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
"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 Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) by David McCloskey

8. 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

Similar categories in David McCloskey's Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
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9. The Year of the Locust

By: Terry Hayes

3.57

Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more

Similar categories in Terry Hayes's The Year of the Locust book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
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10. The Scarlet Papers

By: Matthew Richardson

4.33

Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition

VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Richardson's The Scarlet Papers book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
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11. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
"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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12. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's London Rules (Slough House, #5) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

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

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

"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."

-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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13. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

Similar categories in Charles Beaumont's A Spy Alone book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
Cover of Bad Actors (Slough House, #8) by Mick Herron

14. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Bad Actors (Slough House, #8) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) by David McCloskey

15. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)

By: David McCloskey

4.30

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more

Similar categories in David McCloskey's Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
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16. The Bomb Maker

By: Thomas Perry

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's predictions of human behavior… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's The Bomb Maker book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • fiction
"The meal was two and a half hours of indulgence. Gallimard had chosen common, traditional dishes for them, but each dish was the response to this challenge, an implied promise that this would be the …"

-Thomas Perry, The Bomb Maker

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17. The Visiting Professor

By: Robert Littell

3.56

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Lemuel Falk, "a Russian theoretical chaoticist on the lam from terrestrial chaos," has been applyin… read more

Similar categories in Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) by Mick Herron

18. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
"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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19. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Spook Street (Slough House, #4) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
"...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)

Cover of Real Tigers (Slough House, #3) by Mick Herron

20. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Real Tigers (Slough House, #3) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction
"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)

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

21. 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

Similar categories in Nelson DeMille's Blood Lines (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor #2) book and Robert Littell's The Visiting Professor

  • espionage
  • fiction

18 Best fiction books like The Visiting Professor by Robert Littell

Transform Your Habits

The Cold War Swap (Mac McCorckle, #1)

Ross Thomas

3.98

Transform Your Habits

London Match (Bernard Samson, #3)

Len Deighton

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2)

Len Deighton

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

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18 best-selling fiction books like Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) by David McCloskey

The Good Assassin (George Mueller #2)

Paul Vidich

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Phantom Orbit

David Ignatius

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Peacock and the Sparrow

I.S. Berry

3.81

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