3.88 avg rating — 2,378 ratings

"A brilliant, fiendishly clever book that deserves to be much better known. Up there with the very best."

3.71 avg rating — 557 ratings

"A wonderfully literate espionage thriller in the vein of le Carre, introducing us to the character of Doctor David Audley, a more hands on younger version of George Smiley."

3.87 avg rating — 2,173 ratings

"One of the most realistic and thrilling depictions of what it would be like to be a lone agent in enemy territory. Almost like a guide book of how to survive in the field. "

3.73 avg rating — 18,869 ratings

"An early, lesser known le Carre, this is a sharp, poignant look at inter-service rivalry and the damage it can cause on ordinary men and women. "

3.88 avg rating — 752 ratings

"Ambler deserves to be more widely read in general, but this knotty, morally ambiguous thriller set in an unnamed Eastern European state is one of his best."

3.63 avg rating — 745 ratings

"A short, powerfully written account of an assassination set during the turbulent years before the Bolshevic Revolution. "

3.72 avg rating — 13,696 ratings

"Ian McEwan's sole venture into the espionage genre is a really fine coming of age tale set around the events of Operation Gold, a CIA/SIS joint venture to wiretap the Soviet Embassy in Berlin via an underground tunnel."

3.89 avg rating — 442 ratings

"Second of the David Audley books, and one of the most perfectly paced and plotted thrillers I've ever read."

3.79 avg rating — 640 ratings

3.46 avg rating — 638 ratings

3.92 avg rating — 5,742 ratings