19 best-selling espionage books like Licence to Kill (John Gardner's Bond, #9) by John Gardner

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Licence to Kill (John Gardner's Bond, #9)

By: John Gardner

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Mass Market Paperback

If you liked the espionage plot in Licence to Kill (John Gardner's Bond, #9) by John Gardner , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Trigger Mortis by Ian Fleming, Anthony Horowitz

1. Trigger Mortis

By: Ian Fleming , Anthony Horowitz

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Incorporating original, never-before-published material from 007 creator Ian Fleming, New York Time… read more

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  • espionage
  • action
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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2. Tomorrow Never Dies (Raymond Benson's Bond, #1.5)

By: Raymond Benson , Bruce Feirstein

3.56

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

James Bond is up against a power-mad media mogul, in this story that ranges from the snowy Khyber P… read more

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  • espionage
  • collections
  • fiction
  • thriller
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3. The Big Kill (Mike Hammer, #5)

By: Mickey Spillane

3.68

Format: 168 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The rain clawed at the windows of the bar.  Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone.  But when… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
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4. James Bond and Moonraker

By: Ian Fleming , Christopher Wood

3.58

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A very regrettable incident has occurred. A US Moonraker space shuttle, on loan to the British, has… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • action
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5. The Facts of Death (James Bond, #2)

By: Raymond Benson

3.66

Format: 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The murder of Britain's "Goodwill Ambassador to the World" leads James Bond on a desperate search f… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • spy thriller
  • collections
  • fiction
  • action
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6. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

By: Ian Fleming

3.64

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more

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  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt ve­ļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

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7. You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

By: Ian Fleming

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Ian Fleming’s twelfth James Bond novel. The tragic end to James Bond’s last mission – courtesy o… read more

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  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

"I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite…"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

"007: Be an angle, Penny, and ring down to Mary and tell her she's got to get out of whatever she's doing tonight. I'm taking her out to dinner. Scotts. Tell her we'll have our first roast grouse of t…"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

"He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out tho…"

-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)

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8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)

By: Ian Fleming

3.97

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Description: A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet an… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The World Is Not Enough"

-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)

"When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference"

-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)

"She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me."

-Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond, #11)

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9. 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
  • action
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"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)

Cover of Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14) by Ian Fleming

10. Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)

By: Ian Fleming

3.57

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note #1: this entry is for one of the editions that includes the fourth story, "007 in … read more

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  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The World is Not Enough (Raymond Benson's Bond, #3.5) by Raymond Benson, Bruce Feirstein, None, Robert Wade, Neil Purvis

11. The World is Not Enough (Raymond Benson's Bond, #3.5)

By: Raymond Benson , Bruce Feirstein , None , Robert Wade , Neil Purvis

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first time in print, this 30th novel featuring James Bond is based on the brand new United Arti… read more

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  • espionage
  • collections
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. Solo

By: William Boyd

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran … read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • action
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13. The Killing Man

By: Mickey Spillane

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

When you start reading, you smile: "Some days hang over Manhattan like a huge pair of unseen pincer… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13) by Ian Fleming

14. The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)

By: Ian Fleming

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The Man with the Golden Gun is the 13th novel written by Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional Briti… read more

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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15. Licence to Kill (John Gardner's Bond, #9)

By: John Gardner

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • espionage
  • thriller
  • spy thriller
  • collections
  • fiction
  • action
  • audiobook
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16. Zero Minus Ten

By: Raymond Benson

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

The clock is ticking for Hong Kong. On July 1, 1997, the British Crown Colony will be handed over t… read more

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  • espionage
  • action
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • thriller

17. The Man With the Red Tattoo (Raymond Benson's Bond, #6)

By: Raymond Benson

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In Tokyo, a fatal strain of West Nile virus has infected-and killed-the head of the world's largest… read more

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18. High Time to Kill (Raymond Benson's Bond, #3)

By: Raymond Benson

3.36

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this bestselling phenomenon, James Bond scales new heights of adventure--on one of the world's h… read more

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19. Carte Blanche

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.11

Format: 40 pages,

"The face of war is changing. The other side doesn't play by the rules much anymore. There's thinki… read more

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20. James Bond, the Spy Who Loved Me

By: Christopher Wood

3.00

Format: 112 pages,

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21. Colonel Sun (James Bond, #15)

By: Kingsley Amis , Robert Markham

3.57

Format: None pages, Audiobook

An awe inspiring and suspense filled book! read more

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  • espionage
  • action
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook

22. The Lost Island (Gideon Crew, #3)

By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious emp… read more

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23. 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
  • action
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"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)

24. Doctor No (James Bond, #6)

By: Ian Fleming

3.85

Format: None pages,

James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service… read more

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25. Doubleshot (James Bond, #4)

By: Raymond Benson

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Seeing double makes life twice as dangerous for James Bond -- when an organized crime group makes h… read more

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26. Whisky from Small Glasses (DCI Daley #1)

By: Denzil Meyrick , None

3.07

Format: None pages,

When the body of a young woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the west coast of Scotland, D.C.… read more

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27. Never Dream of Dying (Raymond Benson's Bond, #5)

By: Raymond Benson

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

James Bond, 007, finally comes face to face with his most cunning nemesis-the enigmatic blind crimi… read more

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28. Thunderball (James Bond, #9)

By: Ian Fleming

4.34

Format: 168 pages,

"The girl looked him up and down. He had dark, rather cruel good looks and very clear, blue-grey ey… read more

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29. Forever and a Day

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

*THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A spy is dead. A legend is born. Read the explosive new James… read more

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  • espionage
  • action
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of On His Majesty’s Secret Service by Charlie Higson

30. On His Majesty’s Secret Service

By: Charlie Higson

3.49

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

It's just two days before the Coronation of King Charles Ill and Bond must stop an attempt at disru… read more

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  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz

31. With a Mind to Kill

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and wh… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook

21 Top fiction books like Licence to Kill (John Gardner's Bond, #9) by John Gardner

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Trigger Mortis

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3.78

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Tomorrow Never Dies (Raymond Benson's Bond, #1.5)

Raymond Benson , Bruce Feirstein

3.56

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The Big Kill (Mike Hammer, #5)

Mickey Spillane

3.68

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Ian Fleming , Christopher Wood

3.58

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3.54

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Cold Fall (John Gardner's Bond, #16)

John Gardner

3.35

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Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

Ian Fleming

3.64

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