9 must-read espionage books like The Alamut Ambush by Anthony Price

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The Alamut Ambush

By: Anthony Price

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Dr. Dudley becomes the target of Palestinian guerilla forces during his investigations concering a …

If you liked the espionage plot in The Alamut Ambush by Anthony Price , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

4.09

Format: 801 pages, Paperback

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more

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  • fiction
"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

Cover of Close Call (Liz Carlyle, #8) by Stella Rimington

2. Close Call (Liz Carlyle, #8)

By: Stella Rimington

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the former director of MI5, the new Liz Carlyle thriller—taken from today’s headlines.The Arab… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2) by Dorothy L. Sayers

3. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

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  • fiction
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

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4. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.84

Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more

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  • fiction
"But if you were investigating a crime,"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

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5. Death and the Penguin

By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Animal Farm / 1984

By: George Orwell , Christopher Hitchens

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This edition features George Orwell's best known novels - 1984and Animal Farm- with an introduction… read more

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  • fiction

7. The Glass Key

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of S… read more

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8. The Venetian Affair

By: Helen MacInnes

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A game of espionage ... Fenner burned Rosenfeld's message, reminding himself wryly that he was beha… read more

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9. 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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10. Dead Line (Liz Carlyle, #4)

By: Stella Rimington

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Here is the fourth installment in Stella Rimington's series of thrilling novels that have at their … read more

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11. Zoo Station (John Russell, #1)

By: David Downing

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent fifteen years in Berlin, where his German… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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12. The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more

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  • fiction
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

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13. Case Study

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.60

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more

Similar categories in Graeme Macrae Burnet's Case Study book and Anthony Price's The Alamut Ambush

  • thriller
  • fiction
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

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14. 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

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  • 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

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15. 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
  • thriller
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Slough House (Slough House, #7) by Mick Herron

16. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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17. Slade House

By: David Mitchell

3.81

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"Coffee’s the elixir of life."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"

-David Mitchell, Slade House

Cover of Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy by Paul Vidich

18. 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

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Moscow Sleepers (Liz Carlyle #10) by Stella Rimington

19. The Moscow Sleepers (Liz Carlyle #10)

By: Stella Rimington

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Spooks, Homeland, McMafia and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimingto… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
"A few months ago, at the end of a very stressful period both at work and in her private life, she had sat down and thought about what changes might make her happier."

-Stella Rimington, The Moscow Sleepers (Liz Carlyle #10)

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20. The Alamut Ambush

By: Anthony Price

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Dr. Dudley becomes the target of Palestinian guerilla forces during his investigations concering a … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Price's The Alamut Ambush book and Anthony Price's The Alamut Ambush

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • 20th century
Cover of Joe Country (Slough House, #6) by Mick Herron

21. 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)

17 must-read fiction books like The Alamut Ambush by Anthony Price

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Charles Dickens

4.09

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Stella Rimington

4.05

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Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

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Dorothy L. Sayers

3.84

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Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

John Le Carré

3.94

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Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

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