Ted Allbeury, Cold Tactics.
A British SIS agent suspects that the KGB is behind the new American President’s rise to power.

John Altman, The Watchmen.
A psychiatrist is asked by his mentor to interrogate an Al Queda prisoner who is being targeted by an assassin to prevent him from revealing information.

Milt Bearden, The Black Tulip.
A former CIA operative and a KGB colonel face off during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October.
As a Soviet submarine heads for the U.S. followed by the Soviet fleet, CIA analyst Jack Ryan is convinced that the sub’s captain intends to defect. First in a series.

Arnaldo Correa, Spy’s Fate.
A Cuban spy follows his children who escaped on a raft to the U.S. and is pursued by the CIA and Cuban intelligence.

Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights.
An agent responds to a call for help from a Russian scientist in a remote Siberian research station.

Len Deighton, Berlin Game.
Bernard Samson leaves his desk job and returns to the field when an fellow agent needs to be rescued from behind the Iron Curtain. First in a series.

Clive Egleton, Hostile Intent.
When a British official is blown up during a neo-Nazi riot in Dresden, SIS agent Peter Ashton is asked by his superiors to label it an accident, but he tries to discover the truth. First in a series.

Ian Fleming, Casino Royale.
James Bond follows a trail of money through the casinos of the Riviera in pursuit of a secret organization called SMERSH. First in a series.

Ken Follett, The Key to Rebecca.
A Nazi agent known as the Sphinx has information that would allow Rommel to capture Cairo, and only an English officer and a Jewish girl can stop him.

Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal.
When a top assassin known only as the Jackal is hired to kill Charles de Gaulle, it seems there is no stopping him.

Brian Freemantle, Charlie M.
Charlie Muffin, an agent thought to be an embarrassment to the Department, is sent on a hopeless mission to bring in a KGB mastermind. First in a series.

Alan Furst, Dark Star.
A foreign correspondent for Pravda who survived the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars is co-opted by the Soviet secret intelligence service and becomes a spymaster in Paris.

Joseph Garber, Whirlwind.
A disgraced CIA agent is recalled from retirement to recover stolen secret weapons technology.

Dorothy Gilman, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. Mystery
An elderly widow who is tired of Garden Club meetings accepts an assignment from the CIA and is sent to Mexico City. First in a series.

James Grady, Six Days of the Condor.
A researcher from the USIA whose job it is to check spy novels for sensitive information comes back from lunch one day to find his colleagues dead.

Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana.
A vacuum cleaner salesman struggling to support a daughter with expensive tastes accepts an offer to become British Intelligence’s man in Havana.

David Hagberg, The Kill Zone.
Long after the Cold War, an assassin brainwashed by KGB doctors years before receives a signal that activates a deadly plot concocted by the archenemy of veteran CIA agent McGarvey. Part of a series.

Adam Hall, The Quiller Memorandum.
In 1960s West Berlin, a British agent takes on a neo-Nazi organization and uncovers a malevolent plot. First in a series.

Robert Harris, Enigma.
A British mathematician struggling to crack the Nazi Enigma code must also deal with a missing girlfriend and suspicious coworkers.

Payne Harrison, Black Cipher.
A Muslim who is Britain’s top cryptanalyst uncovers a plot to assassinate a Saudi diplomat, but when the murder isn’t prevented he investigates on his own.

Steven Hartov, The Nylon Hand of God.
After an attack on the Israeli Consulate in New York, Benni Baum of Israeli Military Intelligence finds himself pitted against a notorious German terrorist. Part of a series.

Jack Higgins, Eye of the Storm.
Ex-IRA hitman Sean Dillon is hired by an Iraqi billionaire to assassinate the British Prime Minister in revenge for the Gulf War. First in a series.

William Hood, The Sunday Spy.
Ex-spy Alan Trosper is called back into action to connect a corpse in Central Park with a Russian spy in the State Department. Part of a series.

Jim Hougan, Kingdom Come.
A CIA agent finds himself on the run from a secret society when a professor he has under surveillance is murdered in a strange, ritualistic way.

Greg Iles, Black Cross.
An American physician and a German Jew infiltrate a concentration camp to destroy a cache of Sarin gas, but they risk killing hundreds of prisoners.

Joseph Kanon, The Prodigal Spy.
A man learns that his father — a former State Department undersecretary who defected to the Soviet Union — has been keeping track of him.

John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
George Smiley is assigned to identify a KGB mole who has infiltrated the highest echelons of British Intelligence. Part of a series.

Robert Littell, The Company.
An engrossing saga of the CIA’s 50 year history.

Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity.
A man who was fished out of the Mediterranean with no memory of his past follows a trail of clues to determine his identity. First in a series.

Francine Mathews, The Cutout.
A CIA agent is called in when her husband—who was presumed dead—appears to be one of the kidnappers of the Vice President of the U.S.

Charles McCarry, Old Boys.
Four retired spies agree to help find a fellow agent who disappeared and was declared dead in China.

David Morrell, Brotherhood of the Rose.
Two orphans raised by a mysterious man and trained to be assassins find themselves betrayed by the person they trust most. First in a series.

Edmund Murray, The Peregrine Spy.
In the late ‘70s, CIA operative Frank Sullivan is sent to Iran to judge the durability of the Shah's regime and the increasing influence of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Victor Ostrovsky, Lion of Judah.
A Mossad agent who realizes his superiors aren’t interested in preventing the assassinations of moderate Palestinians decides to go it alone.

R. J. Pineiro, Ultimatum.
A U.S. Navy pilot and a Mossad agent must find Saddam Hussein’s nuclear arsenal before he uses it to start a second Gulf War.

Henry Porter, A Spy’s Life.
A former SIS agent survives a suspicious plane crash and uncovers a plot involving a war criminal from Bosnia and a son he never knew he had.

Gene Riehl, Sleeper.
The NSA assigns FBI Agent Puller Monk to stop a deadly assassin working for North Korea.

Stella Rimington, At Risk.
An MI-5 agent fears that an English citizen has been recruited by a terrorist organization for a deadly mission.

Gerald Seymour, A Line in the Sand.
A former spy being hunted by an assassin refuses to leave the sleepy village where he’s made a new life even after the community turns against him.

Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy.
A history professor must thwart a war widow who is actually a Nazi spy seeking D-Day plans.

Will Staeger, Painkiller.
A low-level CIA agent teams with a burned-out former agent when they independently discover evidence of a huge weapons cache in China.

Carsten Stroud, Cobraville.
A CIA operative is on a covert mission in the Philippines while his father—a U.S. Senator—gets a tip that al-Queda is planning an attack there.

Maureen Tan, AKA Jane.
An MI5 agent retires after one too many deaths to become a mystery writer but trouble follows her.

Brad Thor, Blowback.
When a lethal illness hits the United States and Europe, Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath teams up with a British counterpart to find who’s responsible. Part of a series.

John Weisman, Direct Action.
The CIA hires a former agent to find and stop an Al Queda bomb-maker targeting the West.

David Wolstencroft, Good News, Bad News.
Two British spies ordered to kill each other end up on the run together.

Marcus Wynne, Brothers in Arms.
Two ex-agents—one CIA, one black ops—team up to stop a pair of assassins targeting a mental patient whose damaged mind holds the key to a terrorist plot.