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  1. 1the spy who came in from the cold (1963)the spy who came in from the cold (1963)Published 1 Jan 1963Alec Leamas is offered one last operation after his Berlin network collapses. Set in the early Cold War, this short novel makes the official purpose of a mission compete with the human beings used to carry it out. Follow the recruitment and the changes in what Leamas can safely say. It is an…0
  2. 2American Spy (2019)American Spy (2019) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019In the 1980s, Black FBI intelligence officer Marie Mitchell joins an operation involving Burkina Faso's president, Thomas Sankara. Race, professional exclusion and attraction complicate the language of national duty. Wilkinson keeps family history alongside the work, making the people affected by…0
  3. 3Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) 7.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1974George Smiley is recalled to investigate a Soviet mole inside British intelligence. The work consists of revisiting conversations, weighing reports and understanding colleagues whose habits once seemed reassuring. Its density is purposeful: the reader is given a structure to reconstruct, with…0
  4. 4Your republic is calling you (2010)Your republic is calling you (2010)Published 1 Jan 2010A North Korean sleeper agent living as a film importer in Seoul receives an order to return after years of silence. The ensuing day makes his ordinary marriage, work and fatherhood impossible to dismiss as a mere cover. In Chi-Young Kim's English translation, the pressure comes from conflicting…0
  5. 5The Human Factor (1978)The Human Factor (1978) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1978A suspected leak unsettles a small section of British intelligence, while Maurice Castle hopes for a quiet retirement with his family. Greene attends to the everyday manners through which suspicion is made respectable. This is the novel for readers interested in private gratitude and attachment…0
  6. 6The Ipcress File (1962)The Ipcress File (1962) 7.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1962A missing scientist sends an unnamed British operative through an intelligence world full of class resentment, office politics and unreliable explanations. The sardonic voice is central to the appeal: this employee notices the food, the paperwork and the people giving orders. Begin here for…0
  7. 7Berlin game (1983)Berlin game (1983) 6.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1983Bernard Samson returns to Berlin when a valued agent warns of a mole, while his own position in British intelligence is being overtaken by more polished colleagues. The competing judgements of a workplace and a marriage give the operation its sting. This begins Game, Set and Match and opens a…0
  8. 8Night soldiers (1988)Night soldiers (1988) 4.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1988Beginning in 1934 Bulgaria, Khristo Stoianev's recruitment into Soviet intelligence leads through civil war, purges and occupied Europe. This is a broad historical journey with danger and action, but its defining question is how a person survives the changing demands of supposed allies. The first…0
  9. 9The spies of Warsaw (2008)The spies of Warsaw (2008)Published 1 Jan 2008A French military attaché in pre-war Warsaw gathers intelligence while diplomacy, personal contacts and desire complicate his work. Furst makes a conversation in a salon and a risky approach to a source feel like parts of the same professional life. A largely self-contained entry in his historical…0
  10. 10Defectors (2017)Defectors (2017) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017In 1961 Moscow, an American publisher visits the older brother who defected years earlier, ostensibly to help edit his memoir. Family affection becomes entangled with a manuscript that has already passed through official hands. Kanon makes dialogue do much of the work: an apparently intimate…0i