9 Best thriller books like The Ambassador by Morris L. West

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The Ambassador

By: Morris L. West

3.65

Format: 273 pages, None

American ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is …

If you liked the thriller plot in The Ambassador by Morris L. West , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

By: Tana French

4.06

Format: 466 pages, Paperback

Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murd… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"And then there’s its hair,"

-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

"Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it."

-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

"I loved him, you know,' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life."

-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

"We’ve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we’re so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it."

-Tana French, The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

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2. A Man Without Breath (Bernard Gunther, #9)

By: Philip Kerr

4.10

Format: 136 pages,

From the national bestselling author of Prague Fatale, a powerful new thriller that returns Bernie … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction

3. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)

By: Tana French

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen year old kid with a dream of escaping his family's crampe… read more

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4. The Dogs of War

By: Frederick Forsyth

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Knocking off a bank or an armored truck is merely crude. Knocking off an entire republic has, I fe… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacre mercenaire"

-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

"… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool."

-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

"The natives who saw him walking alone, and later brought him back to the town for burial, said he was whistling when he went. Being simple peasants, growers of yams and cassava, they did not know wha…"

-Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War

5. Oh, Play That Thing

By: Roddy Doyle

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Praised as "a masterpiece" by the Washington Post, A Star Called Henryintroduced the unforgettable … read more

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6. The Blind Assassin

By: Margaret Atwood

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer… read more

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7. Rip Tide (Liz Carlyle, #6)

By: Stella Rimington

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-bo… read more

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8. The Little Drummer Girl

By: John Le Carré

3.76

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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9. Prague Fatale (Bernard Gunther, #8)

By: Philip Kerr

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

September 1941. Bernie Gunther returns from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find his home city … read more

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10. Sarah's Key

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation an… read more

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11. The Trespasser

By: Tana French

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Tana French is "required reading for anyone who appreciates tough,… read more

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12. Presumed Innocent

By: Scott Turow

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rusty Sabich is chief deputy prosecuting attorney in a large mid-western city. His boss is in the m… read more

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13. Harm Done (Inspector Wexford, #18)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town. Behind the picture-postcard fa… read more

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14. The Wings of the Sphinx (Inspector Montalbano, #11)

By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Food, love, and murder-Sicilian style-in the gripping eleventh installment of The New York Timesbes… read more

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15. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) by Don Winslow

16. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
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17. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
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18. Tomás Nevinson

By: Javier Marías

4.06

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Spain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with per… read more

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  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Dziesięć lat to dużo i zarazem nic, dużo w życiu jednostki i nic w kontekście znanych i nieznanych nam czasów. Nie jesteśmy jednak w stanie kierować się tymi drugimi, nie umiemy spojrzeć na siebie ja…"

-Javier Marías, Tomás Nevinson

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19. Hill 29 Vietnam 1968: 8th Cav/Blue Ghost

By: Gareth Style

4.19

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

It has been almost two years since this book has been published. It has sold over 2,000 copies and… read more

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20. A Man at Arms

By: Steven Pressfield

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed master of historical fiction comes an epic saga about a reluctant hero, the Roma… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins by Jennet Conant

21. Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins

By: Jennet Conant

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight t… read more

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22. The Ambassador

By: Morris L. West

3.65

Format: 273 pages, None

American ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is … read more

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  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction

9 best-selling fiction books like The Ambassador by Morris L. West

Transform Your Habits

The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

Tana French

4.06

Transform Your Habits

A Man Without Breath (Bernard Gunther, #9)

Philip Kerr

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Dogs of War

Frederick Forsyth

3.99

Transform Your Habits

1979

Val McDermid

3.78

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20 Best fiction books like 1979 by Val McDermid

Transform Your Habits

Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

Peter Robinson

4.09

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The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)

Ann Cleeves

4.05

Transform Your Habits

1979

Val McDermid

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Dead of Winter

Stuart MacBride

3.81

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