Readalikes for Alan Furst
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City of Thieves by David Benioff When a suspected Nazi war criminal demands sanctuary from his church, Father Anselm finds his investigation paralleled by a search by Lucy Aubret, whose grandmother was betrayed by the Nazi criminal when she secretly worked to rescue Jewish children. Catalog Link |
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The Shadow Patrol (A John Wells Novel) by Alex Berenson John Wells, an undercover operative for the CIA, travels to Kabul to investigate a drug trafficking operation that involves the agency, the military, and the Taliban. Catalog Link |
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Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd Wrongly accused of rape, Lysander Rief, a young English actor, finds his life taking a dangerous turn when the men who help him escape a conviction recruit him for a lethal mission that leads him to traitor who is linked to his family. Catalog Link |
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The 6th Lamentation by William Brodrick When a suspected Nazi war criminal demands sancturary from his church, Father Anselm finds his investigation paralleded by a search by Lucy Aubret, whose grandmother was betrayed by the Nazi criminal when she secretly worked to rescue Jewish children. Catalog Link |
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Vulture Peak (Sonchai Jitpleecheep) by John Burdett When Police Colonel Vikorn puts Sonchai in charge of the highest profile criminal case in Thailand – Sonchai suspects his boss of ulterior motives. and, of curse, he’s right. Catalog Link |
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The Quest for Anna Klein: An Otto Penzler Book by Thomas H. Cook The fortunate life of successful businessman Thomas Danforth of 1939 New York City is thrown into chaos when he unwittingly provides a location for a mysterious woman to receive training in firearms and explosives before she abruptly disappears. Catalog Link |
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The Trinity Six: A Novel by Charles Cumming The most closely-guarded secret of the Cold War is about to be exposed – the identity of a SIXTH member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring. And people are killing for it… Catalog Link |
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Zoo Station by David Downing British journalist John Russell, who has spent 15 years working in Germany. Despite finding the Nazis despicable, Russell wants to remain in Germany to be near his girlfriend, Effi Koenen, and his son, Paul, from whose mother he’s divorced. Russell’s life begins to change when he is persuaded to become a spy for the Soviet Union and then simultaneously, for the British Catalog Link |
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The Silent Oligarch by Christopher Morgan Jones Hired to expose the criminal networks of a Russian bureaucrat who has amassed an illicit fortune, London investigatyor Benjamin Webster uncovers evidence that his target may also be responsible for the murder of a colleague. Catalog Link |
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Istanbul Passage: A Novel by Joseph Kanon In 1945 Istanbul, Allied veteran Leon Bauer is running spy missions under the cover of a U.S. tobacco-importing business. With the war over, Leon has one last big job: to take possession of a Romanian defector in possession of important Russian secrets and get him flown to safety. The rub is the defector, Alezei, was involved in a heinous massacre of Jews four years earlier Catalog Link |
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Prague Fatale (Bernie Gunther) by Philip Kerr In 1941 Prague, private detective Bernie Gunther must sort through a roomful of murderous high-ranking Nazi Party members to discover who killed a young member of Reinhard Heydrich’s staff Catalog Link |
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The Expats: A Novel by Chris Pavone An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luzembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems. Catalog Link |
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Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith MGB oficer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. he arrest whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the forrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everthing he does serves a great good is shaken. Catalog Link |
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The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer Milo Weaver used to be a “tourist” for the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no idenity—but he’s since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager at the CIA’s New York headquarters. He’s acquired a wife, a daughter, and a brownstone in Brooklyn, and he’s tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind. However, when the arrest of a long sought after assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milo’s oldest colleagues and exposes new layers of intrigue in his old cases. he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who’s holding the strings once and for all Catalog Link |
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An Unmarked Grave: A Bess Crawford Mystery (Bess Crawford Mysteries) by Charles Todd While contending with wounded soldiers and influenza patients, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford stumbles upon the body of an officer and family friend who has been murdered, and uses her father’s connections in the mulitary to search for an elusive killer. Catalog Link |