7 Top espionage books like Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2) by Khurrum Rahman

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Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

By: Khurrum Rahman

4.27

Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition

After preventing the most devastating terrorist attack in recent history, Jay Qasim is back home in…

If you liked the espionage plot in Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2) by Khurrum Rahman , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Love Over Scotland (44 Scotland Street, #3)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.00

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us mo… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Will you be my friend?"

-Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland (44 Scotland Street, #3)

"International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland (44 Scotland Street, #3)

"Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland (44 Scotland Street, #3)

"What a strange,old-fashioned thing to think. Bless you. But what other way was there of saying that you wanted only good for somebody, that you wanted the world to be kind to her, to cherish her?Only…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland (44 Scotland Street, #3)

Cover of A Lily of the Field (Inspector Troy, #7) by John Lawton

2. A Lily of the Field (Inspector Troy, #7)

By: John Lawton

3.71

Format: None pages,

Vienna, 1934.Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rose… read more

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. The Complaints

By: Ian Rankin

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known w… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The World According to Bertie (44 Scotland Street, #4) by Alexander McCall Smith

4. The World According to Bertie (44 Scotland Street, #4)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

'The World According To Bertie' is the fourth in the series and revolves around the many colourful … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Haunted Castles

By: Guillermo del Toro , Ray Russell

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director G… read more

Similar categories in Guillermo del Toro's Haunted Castles book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • fiction

6. Streets of Darkness (Harry Virdee, #1)

By: A.A. Dhand

3.95

Format: 145 pages,

Luthermeets The Wire, this is the first Detective Harry Virdee novel The sky over Bradford is heavy… read more

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7. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

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8. Nobody Walks

By: Mick Herron

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel by British espionage fiction master Mick Herron, author of the 2013 Crim… read more

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9. The Living Mountain

By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more

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10. Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan #1)

By: Laura Lippman

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be… read more

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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

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"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. 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

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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)

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13. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

By: Romesh Ranganathan

3.87

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday cam… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of A Killing in November (DI Ryan Wilkins, #1) by Simon Mason

15. A Killing in November (DI Ryan Wilkins, #1)

By: Simon Mason

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classe… read more

Similar categories in Simon Mason's A Killing in November (DI Ryan Wilkins, #1) book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy by Paul Vidich

16. Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy

By: Paul Vidich

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA … read more

Similar categories in Paul Vidich's Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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17. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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18. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's The Pale House Devil book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Sentence

By: Christina Dalcher

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A law intended to end capital punishment. Prosecutors who seek the death penalty put their lives… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Nothing but the Rain

By: Naomi Salman

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Salman's Nothing but the Rain book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Falling Animals

By: Sheila Armstrong

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Armstrong's Falling Animals book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Brouhaha by Ardal O'Hanlon

22. Brouhaha

By: Ardal O'Hanlon

3.44

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dove Connolly is dead. That’s not good for anyone in Tullyanna, never mind Dove. Now his best frien… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Dark Arena: The Frenchman Returns (The Frenchman, #2) by Jack  Beaumont

23. Dark Arena: The Frenchman Returns (The Frenchman, #2)

By: Jack Beaumont

4.13

Format: 429 pages, Paperback

The Frenchman returns in Dark Arena, a super-charged espionage thriller from Jack Beaumont. When an… read more

Similar categories in Jack Beaumont's Dark Arena: The Frenchman Returns (The Frenchman, #2) book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • espionage
  • crime
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (Detective Varg, #0.8) by Alexander McCall Smith

24. The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists (Detective Varg, #0.8)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.70

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Ulf Varg from the Department of Sensitive Crimes is often called upon to investigate unus… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Dolphin Junction: Stories

By: Mick Herron

4.02

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Now, for the first time, Mick Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin… read more

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Waiter (Kamil Rahman, #1) by Ajay Chowdhury

26. The Waiter (Kamil Rahman, #1)

By: Ajay Chowdhury

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that… read more

Similar categories in Ajay Chowdhury's The Waiter (Kamil Rahman, #1) book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Augusta Hawke (Augusta Hawke #1) by G.M. Malliet

27. Augusta Hawke (Augusta Hawke #1)

By: G.M. Malliet

3.60

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes it's safer not to know your neighbors' secrets. Where are Niko and Zora Norman? Crime … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. In a Place of Darkness

By: Stuart MacBride

4.38

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

THE CLOCK IS TICKING...Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job – transferr… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. Swan Song

By: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

3.70

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fea… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2) by Khurrum Rahman

30. Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

By: Khurrum Rahman

4.27

Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition

After preventing the most devastating terrorist attack in recent history, Jay Qasim is back home in… read more

Similar categories in Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2) book and Khurrum Rahman's Homegrown Hero (Jay Qasim #2)

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Exposure (Rita Todacheene #2) by Ramona Emerson

31. Exposure (Rita Todacheene #2)

By: Ramona Emerson

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to the National Book Award–longlisted Shutter, Navajo forensic photographer Rita T… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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