10 Top espionage books like The Winter Agent by Gareth Rubin

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The Winter Agent

By: Gareth Rubin

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

February, 1944. A bitter winter grips occupied France, where Marc Reece leads a circuit of British …

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Cover of One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2) by Ellis Peters

1. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

By: Ellis Peters

4.08

Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the… read more

Similar categories in Ellis Peters's One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Perhaps thought really is prayer."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

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2. Secret Asset (Liz Carlyle, #2)

By: Stella Rimington

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

With her debut novel,At Risk,Stella Rimington established herself as a top-notch thriller writer, a… read more

Similar categories in Stella Rimington's Secret Asset (Liz Carlyle, #2) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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3. The Pale House (Gregor Reinhardt, #2)

By: Luke McCallin

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

As the Nazi war machine is pushed back across Europe, defeat has become inevitable. But there are t… read more

Similar categories in Luke McCallin's The Pale House (Gregor Reinhardt, #2) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5) by Adrian McKinty

4. Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Stasi Wolf (Karin Müller, #2) by David      Young

5. Stasi Wolf (Karin Müller, #2)

By: David Young

3.88

Format: None pages,

How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions? The gripping new thriller from the best… read more

Similar categories in David Young's Stasi Wolf (Karin Müller, #2) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. 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

Similar categories in Ian Rankin's The Complaints book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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7. The Small Boat of Great Sorrows

By: Dan Fesperman , Dan Esperman

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Vlado Petric, a former homicide detective in Sarajevo, is now living in exile, and making a meagre … read more

Similar categories in Dan Fesperman's The Small Boat of Great Sorrows book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Into the Blue

By: Robert Goddard

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harry Barnett lives the life of an Englishman on permanent vacation in Greece, house-sitting for a … read more

Similar categories in Robert Goddard's Into the Blue book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

9. The Man From Berlin (Gregor Reinhardt, #1)

By: Luke McCallin

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Yugoslavia, a German officer has been shot and killed. Along with him a young, beautiful filmmaker … read more

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10. Eye of the Needle

By: Ken Follett

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthle… read more

Similar categories in Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • espionage
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller

11. Stasi Child (Karin Müller, #1)

By: David Young

4.03

Format: 208 pages, ebook

East Berlin, 1975 When Oberleutnant Karin Muller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at … read more

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12. Cold Granite (Logan McRae, #1)

By: Stuart MacBride

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. Winter… read more

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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

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • 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. In the Morning I'll be Gone (Sean Duffy #3)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A spectacular escape and a man-hunt that could change the future of a nation - and lay one man's pa… read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's In the Morning I'll be Gone (Sean Duffy #3) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

15. Up in Honey's Room

By: Elmore Leonard

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Walter Schoen isn't just a Heinrich Himmler look-alike; this Detroit butcher is a dedicated Nazi sp… read more

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16. I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Detective Sean Duffy #2)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Irlanda del Norte, anos ochenta. Un torso aparece en una maleta abandonada. Ha estado congelado, lo… read more

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17. Gun Street Girl (Detective Sean Duffy #4)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Belfast, 1985, amidst the "Troubles": Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (R… read more

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18. The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

By: Adrian McKinty , Gerard Doyle

3.92

Format: 11 pages, Audio CD

Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a… read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

Cover of Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) by David McCloskey

19. 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 Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller) by Simon Scarrow

20. Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1940. The world holds its breath and hopes for peace. At home, the Nazi Party’s grip on po… read more

Similar categories in Simon Scarrow's Dead of Night (A Berlin Wartime Thriller) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

21. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Ben Macintyre

4.16

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small … read more

Similar categories in Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • world war ii
  • espionage
  • war
Cover of The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) by Adrian McKinty

22. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.39

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Paper Cage

By: Tom Baragwanath

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This prizewinning debut from New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath is both a nail-biting thrill-ride… read more

Similar categories in Tom Baragwanath's Paper Cage book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Sea of Spies (Richard Prince, #2) by Alex Gerlis

24. Sea of Spies (Richard Prince, #2)

By: Alex Gerlis

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

The Allies are desperate to stop neutral Turkey supplying vital materials to the Nazis – materials … read more

Similar categories in Alex Gerlis's Sea of Spies (Richard Prince, #2) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • espionage
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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25. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Kanon's Shanghai book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • espionage
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Prince of Spies (Richard Prince, #1) by Alex Gerlis

26. Prince of Spies (Richard Prince, #1)

By: Alex Gerlis

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern… read more

Similar categories in Alex Gerlis's Prince of Spies (Richard Prince, #1) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • espionage
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Dentist (DS Cross Mysteries, #1) by Tim  Sullivan

27. The Dentist (DS Cross Mysteries, #1)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

A homeless man. Violently strangled. No leads. Except for his past. An outsider himself, DS Geor… read more

Similar categories in Tim Sullivan's The Dentist (DS Cross Mysteries, #1) book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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28. Elevator Pitch

By: Linwood Barclay

3.83

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each pre… read more

Similar categories in Linwood Barclay's Elevator Pitch book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer

29. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

By: Soraya Palmer

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in… read more

Similar categories in Soraya Palmer's The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • fiction
Cover of The Winter Agent by Gareth Rubin

30. The Winter Agent

By: Gareth Rubin

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

February, 1944. A bitter winter grips occupied France, where Marc Reece leads a circuit of British … read more

Similar categories in Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • espionage
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Gabriel's Moon by William  Boyd

31. Gabriel's Moon

By: William Boyd

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more

Similar categories in William Boyd's Gabriel's Moon book and Gareth Rubin's The Winter Agent

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Ellis Peters

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Frederick Forsyth

4.14

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