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Joel C. Rosenberg
310 ratings 4.33 ·
espionage · christian · political-intrigue · suspense · politics · historical-fiction · audiobook · spirituality · fiction · military · thriller · adult · drama · book · action-adventure · religion · violent-conflict · mystery · terrorism · war
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W.E.B. Griffin
809 ratings 4.19 ·
fiction · war · adult · military · violent-conflict · book · historical-fiction · action-adventure · historical · audiobook · mystery · thriller · suspense · 20th-century · espionage · political-intrigue · ww2 · crime · male-mc · politics
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Daniel Silva
678 ratings 4.18 ·
thriller · book · fiction · adult · espionage · political-intrigue · action-adventure · suspense · crime · audiobook · politics · murder · historical-fiction · assassins · law-enforcement · contemporary · terrorism · assassinations · conspiracies · mystery
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David Quammen
116 ratings 4.16 ·- The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches From Landscapes of Wonder, Peril, and Hope by David Quammen
- Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
- The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
- The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest by David Quammen
- Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Jack Du Brul
225 ratings 4.12 ·
suspense · book · action-adventure · crime · thriller · fiction · mystery · audiobook · adult · political-intrigue · violent-conflict · espionage · military · historical-fiction · technothriller · historical · nautical · law-enforcement · murder · contemporary
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William E. Butterworth IV
166 ratings 4.04 ·
violent-conflict · audiobook · fiction · war · adult · military · book · espionage · historical-fiction · historical · political-intrigue · thriller · action-adventure · mystery · 20th-century · suspense · ww2 · politics · male-mc · crime
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David Dukes
103 ratings 4.03 ·
adult · fiction · politics · book · crime · thriller · mystery · audiobook · action-adventure · suspense · political-intrigue · espionage · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · 20th-century · drama · war · military · hard-boiled · murder
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Len Deighton
290 ratings 4.00 ·
fiction · adult · espionage · historical · political-intrigue · 20th-century · book · thriller · historical-fiction · audiobook · action-adventure · cold-war · suspense · war · violent-conflict · military · crime · law-enforcement · ww2 · mystery
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Trevanian
113 ratings 3.98 ·
fiction · book · adult · espionage · historical-fiction · historical · political-intrigue · humor · thriller · crime · audiobook · mystery · satire · suspense · action-adventure · noir · assassinations · contemporary · conspiracies · killer
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David Downing
102 ratings 3.98 ·
political-intrigue · espionage · adult · fiction · historical · historical-fiction · crime · book · violent-conflict · ww2 · thriller · war · mystery · 20th-century · audiobook · male-author · action-adventure · western-central-europe · assassinations · literary-fiction
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Frederick Forsyth
424 ratings 3.95 ·
action-adventure · fiction · suspense · political-intrigue · audiobook · espionage · adult · historical-fiction · book · crime · thriller · politics · war · drama · violent-conflict · military · historical · 20th-century · cold-war · terrorism
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Joanna Bourne
130 ratings 3.91 ·
industrial-era · historical · historical-fiction · adult · romance · fiction · political-intrigue · espionage · regency · suspense · book · audiobook · mystery · action-adventure · enemies-to-lovers · politics · steamy · georgian · military · victorian
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Philip Kerr
402 ratings 3.90 ·
book · fiction · mystery · crime · suspense · adult · thriller · audiobook · political-intrigue · historical-fiction · historical · espionage · 20th-century · noir · law-enforcement · violent-conflict · ww2 · war · action-adventure · murder
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Susan Elia MacNeal
208 ratings 3.89 ·
fiction · mystery · female-mc · war · adult · violent-conflict · ww2 · espionage · historical · political-intrigue · historical-fiction · book · 20th-century · law-enforcement · cozy · action-adventure · female-author · thriller · audiobook · suspense
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Helen MacInnes
168 ratings 3.89 ·
suspense · book · political-intrigue · espionage · adult · fiction · historical-fiction · action-adventure · historical · crime · thriller · 20th-century · mystery · cold-war · assassinations · politics · military · murder · literary · classics
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Alan Furst
268 ratings 3.87 ·
20th-century · book · mystery · fiction · war · adult · thriller · violent-conflict · ww2 · espionage · historical-fiction · historical · political-intrigue · audiobook · suspense · military · action-adventure · crime · literary-fiction · noir
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Steve Berry
625 ratings 3.86 ·
fiction · adult · mystery · suspense · action-adventure · historical · thriller · book · crime · historical-fiction · audiobook · espionage · political-intrigue · conspiracies · murder · politics · law-enforcement · male-author · archaeology · alternate-history
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Y.S. Lee
102 ratings 3.85 ·
young-adult · crime · fiction · mystery · industrial-era · action-adventure · realistic · female-author · steampunk · female-mc · romance · poc-mc · historical · historical-fiction · poc-author · feminism · suspense · book · victorian · regency
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Lauren Willig
484 ratings 3.85 ·
historical · fiction · historical-fiction · womens-fiction · book · romance · mystery · adult · audiobook · industrial-era · action-adventure · family · suspense · humor · regency · espionage · political-intrigue · victorian · literary-fiction · georgian
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John le Carré
695 ratings 3.82 ·
political-intrigue · espionage · fiction · adult · thriller · suspense · book · crime · action-adventure · audiobook · politics · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · contemporary · war · 20th-century · violent-conflict · classics · literary · cold-war
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Martin Cruz Smith
248 ratings 3.80 ·
fiction · book · adult · mystery · espionage · political-intrigue · audiobook · action-adventure · suspense · crime · thriller · historical-fiction · murder · law-enforcement · historical · police-procedural · politics · literary-fiction · 20th-century · supernatural
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Alistair MacLean
399 ratings 3.79 ·
fiction · political-intrigue · action-adventure · suspense · mystery · book · adult · espionage · crime · thriller · literary · classics · historical-fiction · violent-conflict · military · historical · technothriller · war · 20th-century · audiobook
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Ian Fleming
402 ratings 3.73 ·
fiction · literary · classics · action-adventure · adult · crime · espionage · political-intrigue · audiobook · 20th-century · thriller · suspense · cold-war · pulp · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · book · male-author · mystery · historical
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Joseph Kanon
156 ratings 3.71 ·
thriller · adult · fiction · political-intrigue · espionage · historical-fiction · suspense · book · 20th-century · crime · mystery · audiobook · historical · war · ww2 · cold-war · violent-conflict · politics · action-adventure · europe
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