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Dark Star
by Alan Furst (1991)
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Like 'The Unlikely Spy', this book offers a tense, atmospheric dive into pre-WWII espionage.
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The Unlikely Spy
by Daniel Silva (1996)
★3.96(26 ratings)
In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent: Catherine Blake, a beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer-and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler to uncover the Allied plans for D-Day...
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Jackdaws
by Ken Follett (2001)
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This book shares the WWII setting and suspenseful espionage of 'The Unlikely Spy'.
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Fans of 'The Unlikely Spy' will appreciate the intricate espionage and deception in this thriller.
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Death of a Citizen
by Donald Hamilton (1960)
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This thriller offers a retired operative pulled back into espionage, similar to the themes in 'The Unlikely Spy'.
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The Night Manager
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Like 'The Unlikely Spy', this novel features complex characters in a world of international espionage and moral ambiguity.
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