Alan Furst's Top 5 Spy Books of All Time (6 books)

These spy tales are unsurpassed, says Alan Furst, the best living spy novelist. From the WSJ 13-June-09

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1	The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2) by John le Carré 3.99 avg rating — 26,123 ratings score: 297, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Miernik Dossier (Paul Christopher, #1) by Charles McCarry 3.88 avg rating — 2,357 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene 3.94 avg rating — 41,025 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Reilly: Ace of Spies by Robin Bruce Lockhart 3.59 avg rating — 283 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Levanter by Eric Ambler 3.79 avg rating — 631 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg by Nina Berberova 3.63 avg rating — 54 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

6 books · 4 voters · list created May 26th, 2011 by Franc (votes) .

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message 1: by John (last edited Apr 06, 2019 01:37AM) (new)

Apr 06, 2019 01:36AM

There are some pretty inaccurate lists on this website, some of it attributable to categories or ratings being finicky at the best of times. But how does a list of (ostensibly) five books contain six books?

Reilly: Ace of Spies is, quite simply, not ranked in Furst's list of top (I'll remind you) five spy novels of all time. Please double-check my arithmetic, but I believe that if you remove Lockhart's book you'll find that the revised list comes out to five books.

Astonishing.

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