Best espionage novels
Discover the best espionage novels of all time—thrilling tales of spies, intrigue, and covert operations. Explore top-rated books by master storytellers in this gripping genre.
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The Prometheus Deception
by Robert Ludlum
Nicholas Bryson, an agent for a covert American group called the Directorate, comes out of retirement after learning the Directorate is actually a traitorous group and joins forces with the CIA to put a stop to their actions.
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Total Control
by David Baldacci
When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York Times bestseller. Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game. He is about to disappear--leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all
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Live and Let Die
by Ian Fleming
Beautiful, fortune - telling Solitaire is the prisoner and tool of Mr Big: master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. But James Bond has no time for hocus pocus. He knows that this criminal heavy hitter is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Big is one of the most dangerous men he has ever faced...
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Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming
For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure. "Die Another Day, " starring Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry, will be in theaters in fall 2002.
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From Russia with Love
by Ian Fleming
Name: Bond, James. Height: 183 cm; weight: 76 kg; slim build; eyes: blue; hair: black; scar down right cheek and on left shoulder; all-around athlete; expert pistol shot, boxer, knife-thrower; does not use disguises; languages: French and German; smokes heavily (Nb: special cigarettes with three gold bands); vices: drink, but not to excess, and women. Every major foreign government organization has a file on British secret agent James Bond. Now, Russia's lethal Smersh organization has targeted him for elimination. Smersh has the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova, who lures 007 to Istanbul promising the top-secret Spektor cipher machine. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues, with Bond both the stakes and the prize...
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Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith
"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season." ASSOCIATED PRESS A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it.
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Digital Fortress
by Dan Brown
A former National Security Agency programmer threatens to release a mathematical formula that will allow organized crime and terrorism to skyrocket.
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The Road to Gandolfo
by Robert Ludlum
Two classic stand-alone novels of intrigue and suspense by the international bestselling creator of the Jason Bourne novels, are now reissued in these specially priced editions. Reissue.