20 Best thriller books like The Werewolf Trace by John Gardner

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The Werewolf Trace

By: John Gardner

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The final desperate hours of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler emerges from his bunker and singles out…

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1. War Girl Ursula (War Girls Book 1)

By: Marion Kummerow

3.75

Format: 316 pages,

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

By: None

4.22

Format: 206 pages,

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in h… read more

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3. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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  • fiction
"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

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4. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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  • fiction
"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

5. Rainbow Six (Jack Ryan Universe, #10)

By: Tom Clancy

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

At its heart is ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, now the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task… read more

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6. Good Neighbors

By: Ryan David Jahn

4.15

Format: None pages,

A compulsively readable debut crime novel inspired by the legendary real-life murder of Kitty Genov… read more

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7. Shadow of the Wolf

By: James Barwick

4.35

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Captain Alfred Horn is the highly skilled pilot chosen to fulfil a top-secret assignment. Under the… read more

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8. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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9. 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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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical 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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10. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

11. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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12. 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

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Daughters of Night

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.17

Format: 580 pages, Hardcover

From the brothels and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shephe… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Winter Work

By: Dan Fesperman

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, abo… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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16. 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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  • thriller
  • fiction
"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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17. Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

By: Tom Bower

3.86

Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition

The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebra… read more

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"Meghan, said Oprah, had been the target of ‘constant criticism [and] blatant sexist and racist remarks by British tabloids’. As she spoke, the screen was covered by a spread of apparently racist head…"

-Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

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18. 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

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Munich Wolf

By: Rory Clements

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Nowhere Man (Orphan X, #2) by Gregg Hurwitz

20. The Nowhere Man (Orphan X, #2)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.15

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

He was once called Orphan X. As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from a children's home, raised and … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"Look at me closely. Ask yourself: Do I look scared?"

-Gregg Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man (Orphan X, #2)

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21. Storm Warning (Honourable Duncan Morant Book 1)

By: Alan Savage

4.27

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling adventure story set in World War II, and the first book in the Honourable Duncan Morant… read more

Similar categories in Alan Savage's Storm Warning (Honourable Duncan Morant Book 1) book and John Gardner's The Werewolf Trace

  • thriller
  • historical fiction
Cover of Over My Dead Body (William Warwick, #4) by Jeffrey Archer

22. Over My Dead Body (William Warwick, #4)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.07

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A Polícia Metropolitana de Londres acaba de anunciar uma nova unidade de Casos Arquivados com o pro… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy by Paul Vidich

23. 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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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The English Führer (Tom Wilde #7) by Rory Clements

24. The English Führer (Tom Wilde #7)

By: Rory Clements

4.11

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo,… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Avignon Affair (Vatican Secret Archive #4) by Gary McAvoy

26. The Avignon Affair (Vatican Secret Archive #4)

By: Gary McAvoy

4.47

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

A corpse cloaked in secrets rests in an ancient tomb deep beneath Notre-Dame Cathedral, but its ide… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. The Partisan

By: Patrick Worrall

3.64

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Summer 1961: The brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young pr… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

Cover of The Werewolf Trace by John  Gardner

29. The Werewolf Trace

By: John Gardner

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The final desperate hours of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler emerges from his bunker and singles out… read more

Similar categories in John Gardner's The Werewolf Trace book and John Gardner's The Werewolf Trace

  • thriller
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. The Last King of California

By: Jordan Harper

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Jordan Harper's "darkly irresistible" novel, a tragic, Hamlet-esque noir for readers of S.A. Cosby … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction

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War Girl Ursula (War Girls Book 1)

Marion Kummerow

3.75

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Joe Haldeman

4.14

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Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

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Robert Harris

4.07

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Conn Iggulden

4.39

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Bernard Cornwell

4.15

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Ben Kane

4.04

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4.25

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