14 Best mystery books like The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

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The Secret Pilgrim

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold War--whose shadows …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Secret Pilgrim by John Le Carré , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2) by Len Deighton

1. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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2. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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3. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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4. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. The Secret Pilgrim

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold War--whose shadows … read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's The Secret Pilgrim book and John Le Carré's The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

6. 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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7. The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945

By: Max Hastings

4.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Examining the espionage and intelligence stories in World War II, on a global basis, bringing toget… read more

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8. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)

By: Anthony Powell

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Powell's The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6) book and John Le Carré's The Secret Pilgrim

  • fiction

9. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more

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10. 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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11. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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12. 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

Similar categories in Matthew Richardson's The Scarlet Papers book and John Le Carré's The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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13. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy 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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14. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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15. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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16. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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17. 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

Similar categories in Charles Beaumont's A Spy Alone book and John Le Carré's The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Bad Actors (Slough House, #8) by Mick Herron

18. 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 The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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19. Reconstruction

By: Mick Herron

4.09

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

What should have been a simple pick-up turns into a day-long nightmare for Bad Sam Chapman.When an … read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Reconstruction book and John Le Carré's The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. The Secret Life of John le Carré

By: Adam Sisman

3.49

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le … read more

Similar categories in Adam Sisman's The Secret Life of John le Carré book and John Le Carré's The Secret Pilgrim

  • espionage
  • audiobook
Cover of No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris by Tim Shipman

21. No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

By: Tim Shipman

4.03

Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition

The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet. To follow his bestse… read more

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15 Best fiction books like The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré

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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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Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

Mick Herron

4.29

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Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

Mick Herron

5.00

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Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

John Le Carré

3.94

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Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Michael Connelly

4.56

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