9 Best thriller books like Octopussy and 007 in New York by Ian Fleming

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Octopussy and 007 in New York

By: Ian Fleming

3.34

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

For James Bond, British secret agent 007, international espionage can be a dirty business. Whether …

If you liked the thriller plot in Octopussy and 007 in New York by Ian Fleming , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The song. That’s what apprentice wizard and London Metropolitan Police Constable Peter Grant fi… read more

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"He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

" Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards , I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light. "

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

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2. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

By: J.K. Rowling , None , Albus Dumbledore , Newt Scamander

3.96

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them resides on almost every wizarding household in th… read more

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  • short stories
"Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance,"

-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

"Jacob Kowalski: I'm sure people like you,too. Newt Scamander: No, not really. I'm annoying."

-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

"Chizpurfle infestations explain the puzzling failure of many relatively new Muggle electrical artifacts."

-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

"Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes"

-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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3. Get Carter

By: Ted Lewis

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doncaster, and Jack Carter is home for a funeral - his brother's. Frank's car was found at the bott… read more

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  • thriller
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4. 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

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  • thriller
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5. Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

3.82

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more

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"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

6. Them: Adventures with Extremists

By: Jon Ronson

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more

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7. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By: George V. Higgins

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more

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8. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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9. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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10. Nightflyers

By: George R.R. Martin

2.57

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine misfit academics embark on an expedition, and the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a cyb… read more

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11. Devil May Care

By: Sebastian Faulks , Rodrigo Corral , None

3.45

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Bond is back. With a vengeance. "Devil May Care" is a masterful continuation of the James Bond lega… read more

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  • thriller

12. Breakfast at Tiffany's

By: Truman Capote

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the Am… read more

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13. From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (From a Certain Point of View, #2)

By: Elizabeth Schaefer

3.85

Format: 561 pages, Hardcover

From a Certain Point of View strikes back! Celebrate the legacy of the groundbreaking Star Wars seq… read more

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  • short stories
"Rebellions are built on hope."

-Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (From a Certain Point of View, #2)

"Harmony, we seek. Reality, we accept. The future, we behold. Feel the Force and go beyond."

-Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (From a Certain Point of View, #2)

"Emon braced himself, but he didn't despair. He was a rebel, and that mean that he was more than his weapon, his uniform, or his rank. He was an idea and ideas couldn't be snuffed out, not even on the…"

-Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (From a Certain Point of View, #2)

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14. With a Mind to Kill

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and wh… read more

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  • thriller
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15. I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

4.06

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more

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  • thriller
"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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16. Brotherhood (Star Wars)

By: Mike Chen

4.16

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stem the tide of the raging Clone Wars and forge a new bon… read more

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"I promise you, nothing would happen to you,"

-Mike Chen, Brotherhood (Star Wars)

"Mission parameters can always be changed—in politics, military missions, or life—and the truly wise know when to make those changes."

-Mike Chen, Brotherhood (Star Wars)

"Anakin knelt down in front of R2-D2, quickly reciting memorized details about connecting to secure comm channels, something that he held on to as tightly as the hand of his wife. Because in some ways…"

-Mike Chen, Brotherhood (Star Wars)

"The sun-dragon lives inside a star, guarding everything it loves and treasures. It guarded them through the fire and flame, always keeping them safe. It could persevere through anything, even life wi…"

-Mike Chen, Brotherhood (Star Wars)

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17. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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18. Cut and Thirst

By: Margaret Atwood

3.15

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, a… read more

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  • thriller
  • short stories
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19. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

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  • thriller
  • short stories
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20. Shadow of the Sith (Star Wars)

By: Adam Christopher

3.93

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi a… read more

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" Let the Force guide you. Let it flow through you as it flows through me. Use that power, and your instincts, for they are one and the same. "

-Adam Christopher, Shadow of the Sith (Star Wars)

"The Force... was a living thing, in the crudest terms an energy field that bound the universe together. The Force was not a power, not something to be wielded, or used, or manipulated. Rather, it was…"

-Adam Christopher, Shadow of the Sith (Star Wars)

"Vader had been a fire, a twisting sun-dragon that curled in the core of a star about to go nova. The Emperor, Palpatine, had been the exact opposite – he was ice, the terrifying cold of the bottom of…"

-Adam Christopher, Shadow of the Sith (Star Wars)

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21. The Missing Girl

By: Shirley Jackson

3.55

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Mali… read more

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  • thriller
  • short stories
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22. Octopussy and 007 in New York

By: Ian Fleming

3.34

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

For James Bond, British secret agent 007, international espionage can be a dirty business. Whether … read more

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  • thriller
  • short stories

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3.96

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3.85

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3.15

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4.02

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Alice Winn

4.53

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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