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The best spy thriller eBooks for kindle, nook, iBooks and more, including new and established writers crafting espionage thrillers, spy stories, covert missions, true espionage and more.

Pushing Back the Desert, a High-Stakes Political Thriller by Gordon Zuckerman

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The Bottom Line: Rigorously researched, this cold war political thriller crackles with high-stakes spycraft, corporate greed and the moral obligation to protect humanity.  Pushing Back the Desert opens in the 1950s, as New Yorker Claudine Demaureaux summons a group of highly educated friends dubbed the Six Sentinels. The group first became acquainted when they shared the same doctoral study group during World War II. Now successful […]

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Rogue Agent, a Military Thriller That Hits All The Right Targets

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The Bottom Line: Rogue Agent is a conspiracy thriller that hits all the right targets. Dan J Ford has created a compelling thinker and a one-man wrecking crew in his protagonist, Tom Wiseman.  Wiseman, a Former FBI agent and current Army criminal investigator is contacted by his former mentor and Quantico trainer five years after Tom’s FBI’s career ended badly. His mentor – who Tom feels betrayed him – calls about a case

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Rescue Run, an Essential World War II Thriller by John Winn Miller

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The Bottom Line: Based on real World War II heroes, and profoundly researched from cover-to-cover, Rescue Run is every bit as riveting and essential as anything in Clive Cussler’s body of work.  Set during World War II, Rescue Run opens as American Captain Jake Rogers’ cargo ship comes under attack from a Nazi submarine. Despite the assistance of a B-24 bomber in fending off the U-boat attack, Rogers’ battered

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The Spy Who Hated Me, an Uproarious Spy Spoof by Haris Orkin

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The Bottom Line: An uproarious spy spoof that may be Orkin’s most cinematic mission yet.  Since the debut of the wildly funny You Only Live Once, the first book in Haris Orkin’s James Bond satire series, Orkin has been far more prolific than the material that originally inspired him. The latest installment in Orkin’s James Flynn Escapade series, The Spy Who Hated Me, is Orkin’s fifth since the

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OPERATION: Running Brook, a Rapid-Fire Spy Novel by Alex A. Jameson

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The Bottom Line: This rapid-fire spy novel features an irresistible premise and brims with ample doses of romance.  A young woman wakes up at City Memorial Hospital with a broken ankle, a concussion, some abrasions on her hands and face – and no recollection of how she got there. The possessions in her hospital room reveal a flip phone and ten dollars, but no identification or

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House of Fat Man, an Atmospheric Spy Thriller by M Gerard-Alesco

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The Bottom Line: A deeply atmospheric, labyrinthine spy thriller written in the tradition of John le Carre.   House of Fat Man opens at dawn in Chiang Mai as 29-year-old American ex-pat Greg Robber  is polishing off yet another beer. The previous night, he had found a friend named Nok severely beaten at a research station. The primary suspect? The Fat Man – a Chinese drug lord

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Rising Phoenix, an Action-Packed Spy Thriller by Evan Graver

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The Bottom Line: Rising Phoenix is an addictive, action-packed spy thriller set in the fascinating geopolitical battleground that is Venezuela. Mark Greaney fans may find a new favorite in Evan Graver.  Rising Phoenix opens in Caracas, Venezuela, as government official Migel Tapia – also known as Cobalt Panther – arrives home to his eerily quiet McMansion. A nightmare awaits him in the master bedroom, where his wife and CIA handler have

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Stinger, a Gloriously Gritty Spy Thriller by Gregory D. Lee

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The Bottom Line: A gloriously gritty, must-read spy thriller written by a master of the trade. Stinger opens in January 2003, just weeks before an international military coalition is set to invade Iraq to overthrow the regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile in Beirut, two Lebanese women are kidnapped. Their abductors soon contact the U.S. Embassy, offering a disquieting photo as proof of life, and

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The Well, an Exhilarating Spy Thriller by R. Chapman Wesley

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The Bottom Line: An exhilarating spy thriller that successfully blends myth, science, espionage and magic.  Russian scientist Professor Anatoly Popov, described as a bit of a swashbuckler, has been on a quest for perfect health his entire life. He first encountered the legend of The Well while studying Kung Fu in a Taoist temple. What if a scientific breakthrough, based on a Chinese legend, could

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Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs, the Year’s Best Spy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Winner, Spy Thriller, The BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Highly recommended. CIA agent Bill Hefflin is back in Bucharest—immersed in a cauldron of spies and crooked politicians The CIA is rocked to its core when a KGB defector divulges that there is a KGB mole inside the Agency. They learn that the mole’s handler is a KGB agent known as Boris. CIA analyst Bill Hefflin knows

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