15 must-read mystery books like Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) by John le Carré

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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…

If you liked the mystery plot in Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) by John Le Carré , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One: Release 2.0

By: David Gerrold

3.89

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

When HARLIE Was One is a 1972 science fiction novel by David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebu… read more

Similar categories in David Gerrold's When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One: Release 2.0 book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in Len Deighton's The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • 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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3. 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

Similar categories in Len Deighton's Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Our Man in Havana

By: Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more

Similar categories in Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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6. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up a case in any nu… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

By: Mick Herron

5.00

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their s… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Real Tigers (Slough House, #3) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. 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 John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

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

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

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

10. Nobody Walks

By: Mick Herron

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel by British espionage fiction master Mick Herron, author of the 2013 Crim… read more

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11. 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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12. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

By: Ian Fleming

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more

Similar categories in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

13. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

By: Mick Herron

3.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those wh… read more

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14. Black Fire

By: William Kely McClung

4.29

Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition

Major Tommy Black is at the crossroads of a brilliant, clandestine career. Lost... without purpose … read more

Similar categories in William Kely McClung's Black Fire book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Okay, sure, he’s a great fucking guy,"

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

"It was time to start thinking of darker things."

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

"Black once tried to tackle a Humvee head-on. This was worse"

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

"Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful."

-William Kely McClung, Black Fire

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15. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Secret Hours book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • 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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16. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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17. London Rules (Slough House, #5)

By: Mick Herron

4.34

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's London Rules (Slough House, #5) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

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18. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. Like the ringing of a … read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Joe Country (Slough House, #6) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

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19. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Slough House (Slough House, #7) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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20. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Bad Actors (Slough House, #8) book and John Le Carré's Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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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21. I Have Your Back: How an American Soldier Became an International Hero

By: Tom Sileo

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage a… read more

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17 Top fiction books like Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1) by John le Carré

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When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One: Release 2.0

David Gerrold

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1)

Len Deighton

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2)

Len Deighton

3.59

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Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

Mick Herron

4.11

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17 Top fiction books like Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) by Ian Fleming

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Ian Fleming , Anthony Horowitz

3.78

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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

Raymond Chandler

3.95

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Len Deighton

3.93

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William Boyd

3.94

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