11 Best espionage books like Red, White, Blue by Lea Carpenter

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Red, White, Blue

By: Lea Carpenter

3.01

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer …

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1. Prayers for Sale

By: Sandra Dallas

3.75

Format: 272 pages,

Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before i… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon

2. Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

By: Diana Gabaldon

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together,… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1) by Josephine Tey

3. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)

By: Josephine Tey

3.77

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

4. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

By: Ben Macintyre

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling… read more

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5. 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
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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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6. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

By: Kevin Baker

4.39

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures… read more

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7. The Scarlet Papers

By: Matthew Richardson

4.33

Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition

VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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8. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

Similar categories in Chetna Maroo's Western Lane book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Burma Sahib

By: Paul Theroux

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of  The Mosquito Coast  and  The Bad Angel Brothers  comes a riveting new… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Wealth of Shadows

By: Graham Moore

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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12. Transcription

By: Kate Atkinson

3.49

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. S… read more

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  • espionage
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow."

-Kate Atkinson, Transcription

"he had a name, too - a good patriotic name. cry god for harry, england, and saint george."

-Kate Atkinson, Transcription

"Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be."

-Kate Atkinson, Transcription

"This was how people disappeared from history, wasn't it? They weren't erased, they were explained away."

-Kate Atkinson, Transcription

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13. Hero

By: Thomas Perry

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also mak… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Everything she saw was lit by skylights and every fixture conveyed the message, "This is the best, not just the most expensive."

-Thomas Perry, Hero

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14. The Helsinki Affair

By: Anna Pitoniak

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

CIA agent Amanda Cole is thrust into an international conspiracy involving high-profile assassinati… read more

Similar categories in Anna Pitoniak's The Helsinki Affair book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

Similar categories in Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Plinko Bounce

By: Martin Clark

3.73

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the po… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Woman Inside

By: E.G. Scott

3.46

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An impossible-to-put-down domestic thriller about secrets and revenge, told from the perspectives o… read more

Similar categories in E.G. Scott's The Woman Inside book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Revenge List

By: Hannah Mary McKinnon

3.53

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

They say life flashes before your eyes when you’re about to die. But all she could see was regret. … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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

20. 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 Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • espionage
  • crime
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Other Wife (Joseph O'Loughlin, #9) by Michael Robotham

21. The Other Wife (Joseph O'Loughlin, #9)

By: Michael Robotham

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated s… read more

Similar categories in Michael Robotham's The Other Wife (Joseph O'Loughlin, #9) book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. If We Had Known

By: Elise Juska

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A literary tour de force from the acclaimed author of The Blessings-a riveting new novel about one … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"This, she thought, was the sadness of teachers. Each semester is a contained little life - a relationship that begins, peaks, but always ends. They cycle in, cycle out, but you stay in one place. The…"

-Elise Juska, If We Had Known

Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

23. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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24. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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25. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Trap (Alias Emma, #3) by Ava Glass

26. The Trap (Alias Emma, #3)

By: Ava Glass

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

British spy Emma Makepeace races against the clock to stop the Russians from carrying out a high-pr… read more

Similar categories in Ava Glass's The Trap (Alias Emma, #3) book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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28. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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29. Bright Objects

By: Ruby Todd

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequenc… read more

Similar categories in Ruby Todd's Bright Objects book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Red, White, Blue by Lea Carpenter

30. Red, White, Blue

By: Lea Carpenter

3.01

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer … read more

Similar categories in Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue book and Lea Carpenter's Red, White, Blue

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • politics
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Seventh Floor (Damascus Station, #3) by David McCloskey

31. The Seventh Floor (Damascus Station, #3)

By: David McCloskey

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other … read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook

29 Best fiction books like Red, White, Blue by Lea Carpenter

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Prayers for Sale

Sandra Dallas

3.75

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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

Diana Gabaldon

3.50

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The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)

Josephine Tey

3.77

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The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

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21 best-selling fiction books like Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

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The Last Word

Elly Griffiths

3.92

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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The Cracked Mirror

Chris Brookmyre

4.07

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