25 must-read fiction books like Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight by Eric Ambler

Cover of Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight by Eric Ambler

Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

By: Eric Ambler

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A blanket of fog grounds a flight in Brussels and Dr. Andrew Maclaren finds himself sharing a room …

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Cover of The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2) by John Le Carré

1. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

By: John Le Carré

3.99

Format: 589 pages, Paperback

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Let's die of it before we're too old."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

Cover of The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth

2. The Odessa File

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.14

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: a Mafia-like organi… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7) by Ann Cleeves

3. Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the road a… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of SS-GB by Len Deighton

4. SS-GB

By: Len Deighton

3.37

Format: 320 pages,

1941, and England invaded - and defeated - by the Germans... The King is a hostage in the tower, th… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Hitler's Peace by Philip Kerr

5. Hitler's Peace

By: Philip Kerr

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Autumn 1943. Since Stalingrad, Hitler has known that Germany cannot win the war. The upcoming Allie… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Midnight in Europe (Night Soldiers, #13) by Alan Furst

6. Midnight in Europe (Night Soldiers, #13)

By: Alan Furst

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

Paris, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle again… read more

Similar categories in Alan Furst's Midnight in Europe (Night Soldiers, #13) book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of A Murder of Quality by John Le Carré

7. A Murder of Quality

By: John Le Carré

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's A Murder of Quality book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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8. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

Similar categories in Graham Greene's The Quiet American book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • fiction
Cover of Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) by John Le Carré

9. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction

10. The Lady from Zagreb (Bernard Gunther, #10)

By: Philip Kerr

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Prop… read more

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11. Conclave

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more

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12. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) by John Le Carré

13. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

By: John Le Carré

4.06

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

14. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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15. The Looking Glass War

By: John Le Carré

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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16. Kingdom of Shadows (Night Soldiers, #6)

By: Alan Furst

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath … read more

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Cover of Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

17. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Cover of The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9) by Ann Cleeves

18. The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the … read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9) book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • thriller
  • fiction
"And miles to go before I sleep . . ."

-Ann Cleeves, The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9)

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19. 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 Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • 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 Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) by Anthony Horowitz

20. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry

21. 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 Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
"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

Cover of London Rules (Slough House, #5) by Mick Herron

22. 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 Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • 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)

Cover of The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) by John Banville

23. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

By: John Banville

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more

Similar categories in John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) by Elly Griffiths

24. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Agent Running in the Field by John Le Carré

25. Agent Running in the Field

By: John Le Carré

3.85

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent… read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Agent Running in the Field book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organ…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gost…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Br…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

Cover of Bruno's Challenge and Other Stories of the French Countryside by Martin  Walker

26. Bruno's Challenge and Other Stories of the French Countryside

By: Martin Walker

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin Walker presents his first collection of stories featuring all the familiar characters from h… read more

Similar categories in Martin Walker's Bruno's Challenge and Other Stories of the French Countryside book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • fiction
Cover of The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) by Ann Cleeves

27. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight by Eric Ambler

28. Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

By: Eric Ambler

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A blanket of fog grounds a flight in Brussels and Dr. Andrew Maclaren finds himself sharing a room … read more

Similar categories in Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight book and Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

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

29. 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 Eric Ambler's Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • 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)

Cover of Joe Country (Slough House, #6) by Mick Herron

30. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

Cover of Spook Street (Slough House, #4) by Mick Herron

31. 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

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • 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)

22 best-selling thriller books like Tender To Danger: Tender to Moonlight by Eric Ambler

Transform Your Habits

The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

John Le Carré

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Odessa File

Frederick Forsyth

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7)

Ann Cleeves

4.14

Transform Your Habits

SS-GB

Len Deighton

3.37

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19 Best fiction books like The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9) by Ann Cleeves

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The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)

Elly Griffiths

3.76

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The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie, #1)

Val McDermid

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

Peter Robinson

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9)

Ann Cleeves

4.29

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