6 Top espionage books like The Big Book of Espionage by Otto Penzler

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The Big Book of Espionage

By: Otto Penzler

3.65

Format: 832 pages, Paperback

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on…

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1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

By: Tim Weiner

3.94

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more

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  • espionage
"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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2. Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

By: Ian Fleming

3.63

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

How is this for an evocative passage from the second Bond novel? "Her hair was black and fell to… read more

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  • espionage
"Don't lose faith in your stars."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

"Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

"Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

"You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy."

-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)

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3. From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

By: Ian Fleming

3.91

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintell… read more

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  • espionage
"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

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4. The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James M. Cain

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more

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5. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford

By: Roger Zelazny , Philip K. Dick , Steven Owen Godersky

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. … read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
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6. For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)

By: Ian Fleming

3.66

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: this entry relates to the collection of short stories under the title of "For You… read more

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  • espionage
  • short stories
"I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone,…"

-Ian Fleming, For Your Eyes Only (James Bond, #8)

7. Red Harvest

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, ebook

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more

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8. Batman: The Long Halloween

By: Jeph Loeb , Tim Sale , Richard Starkings , Gregory Wright

4.50

Format: 282 pages,

Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery … read more

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9. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)

By: Ellis Peters

4.39

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael... A Morbid Taste for… read more

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10. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

By: Ian Fleming

3.80

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more

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  • espionage
"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

11. The Life and Death of Captain Marvel

By: Jim Starlin

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Trade Paperback

The legendary cosmic warrior called Captain Marvel was an agent of the alien Kree, humanoid beings … read more

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12. The Living Shadow

By: Maxwell Grant , Walter B. Gibson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN? THE SHADOW KNOWS. But no one knows THE SHADOW. Cloa… read more

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13. War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more

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"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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14. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

By: Michio Kaku

4.10

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth… read more

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15. Caution Death At Work (DCI Evan Warlow, #2)

By: Rhys Dylan

4.45

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark past casts a deep shadow. Evan Warlow is back in the saddle as a DCI, though he isn’t yet… read more

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16. The Engine House (DCI Evan Warlow, #1)

By: Rhys Dylan

4.39

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

You can bury the bodies, but you can’t hide the truth. When a landslip on Pembrokeshire’s stunni… read more

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17. The Dinner Lady Detectives (Dinner Lady Detectives, #1)

By: Hannah Hendy

3.27

Format: 290 pages, ebook

Murder is a dish best served ice cold... Margery and Clementine are enjoying a peaceful middle-a… read more

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18. Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II

By: Alex Kershaw

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of… read more

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19. The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy

By: David Gelles

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles revea… read more

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20. A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

By: Dean Jobb

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jo… read more

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21. The Big Book of Espionage

By: Otto Penzler

3.65

Format: 832 pages, Paperback

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on… read more

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  • espionage
  • short stories
  • anthologies

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T.G. Reid

4.21

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David J. Gatward

4.46

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Rhys Dylan

4.39

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