8 Best thriller books like A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

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A Coffin for Dimitrios

By: Eric Ambler

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery wr…

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1. The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

By: Len Deighton

3.93

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Pa… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf."

-Len Deighton, The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

"I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information." "And?" "The most valuable?" "People with information…"

-Len Deighton, The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

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2. Ashenden

By: W. Somerset Maugham , None

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living… read more

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  • espionage
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"-Hay cierta elegancia en malgastar el tiempo -repuso Ashenden-. Cualquier cretino es capaz de despilfarrar dinero, pero cuando uno gasta su propio tiempo tiene el placer de tirar una cosa que no tien…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"Los hechos son narradores pobres. Empienzan la historia por azar, generalmente mucho antes del principio, divagan inconsecuentes y decaen, dejando posibles finales colgados y sin conclusión. Trabajan…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"R. terminó su relato y miró a Ashenden, dejando escapar un relámpago por la ranura de sus ojos medio cerrados. -Es novelesco, ¿no le parece? -preguntó. -¿Y me dice usted que eso ha ocurrido hace poco…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

"I gather from what you have not said that he is an unmitigated scoundrel." R. smiled with his pale blue eyes. "I don't know that I'd go quite so far as that. He hasn't had the value of a public-schoo…"

-W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

Cover of Blood of Victory (Night Soldiers, #7) by Alan Furst

3. Blood of Victory (Night Soldiers, #7)

By: Alan Furst

3.95

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

November 1940, and the battle to cut Germany's oil supply rages through the spy haunts of the Balka… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. The Doomsters

By: Ross Macdonald

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, d… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of London Match (Bernard Samson, #3) by Len Deighton

5. London Match (Bernard Samson, #3)

By: Len Deighton

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Mass Market Paperback

With treason epidemic in London Central, a cloud of suspicion passes over each senior agent, and ea… read more

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  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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6. Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2)

By: Len Deighton

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Now on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City. British intelligence agent Bernard Samson … read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. A Coffin for Dimitrios

By: Eric Ambler

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery wr… read more

Similar categories in Eric Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios book and Eric Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) by John Le Carré

9. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

10. Rogue Male

By: Geoffrey Household

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Rogue Male is one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century. An Englishman plans to assassinate … read more

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11. The Zebra-Striped Hearse

By: Ross Macdonald

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-t… read more

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12. 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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13. Red Gold (Night Soldiers, #5)

By: Alan Furst

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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14. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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15. Spy Hook (Bernard Samson, #4)

By: Len Deighton

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Bernie Sampson, ex-field man, now a paper-pushing intelligence officer, is sent on a fool's errand … read more

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16. Horse Under Water

By: Len Deighton

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Ipcress File was a debut sensation. Here; in the second Secret File, Horse Under Water; skin di… read more

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17. Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)

By: Len Deighton

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

When a valuable agent behind the Iron Curtain signals he wants out, it's up to Bernard Samson, once… read more

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18. Kingdom of Shadows (Night Soldiers, #6)

By: Alan Furst

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath … read more

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19. In a Lonely Place

By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more

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20. Under Occupation (Night Soldiers, #15)

By: Alan Furst

3.41

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

From the master of espionage and intrigue, this novel about heroic resistance fighters in 1942 occu… read more

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  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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21. Aliène

By: Phœbe Hadjimarkos Clarke

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Fauvel a perdu un œil suite à un tir de LBD. Elle accepte de garder la chienne du père d'une de ses… read more

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