The main protagonist in the Andy McNab written series, Nick Stone, is an ex-member of the British Army regiment the SAS. After a difficult youth, Nick Stone signed up for the Army and was eventually recruited into the SAS. Troubling events and violent public deaths pushed him out of the British Army, but not out…
A former Navy SEAL, Jack Carr is now a #1 New York Times bestselling author with his spy thrillers in the vein of Brad Thor’s books (or Mark Greaney’s series) and the writer of what is known as the Terminal List series. He’s writing the dangerous adventures of James Reece, a former Navy SEAL who…
Harry Palmer is one of the most British famous spies, next to James Bond and George Smiley, though he is not always named Harry Palmer. To be exact, the character is unnamed in Len Deighton’s books but the production team for the 1965 film The Ipcress File, based on the novel of the same name,…
Coming from British author Tom Wood, Victor the Assassin is an explosive thriller series about–as you may have guessed–a lethal assassin called Victor. Victor is a freelancer, a professional, a killer–the best there is. He’s ice-cold, methodical, and deadly. He lives alone. He operates alone. No one knows his background or even his name. For…
Coming from British author Robert Muchamore, CHERUB is a popular series of teenage spy novels about a fictional division of the British Security Service called… CHERUB. CHERUB agents are aged between ten and seventeen. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. How…
Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels, born in New York in 1941. A graduate of Oberlin College in 1960 and from Penn State in 1967, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles before becoming a full-time writer. His first published books didn’t spark a big interest among readers, achieving limited…
Written by American author Alan Furst, the Night Soldiers novels are espionage thrillers taking place in Europe, starting in the 1930s and through World War II. Those are realistic stories of (mostly) reluctant heroes in wartime, an exploration of the multiple resistance movements all over Europe, from occupied Paris to London, from the front to…
Lord Alexander Hawke is a British secret agent created by American author Ted Bell. While sailing in the Caribbean, young Alex Hawke witnesses an act of unspeakable horror as modern-day pirates brutally murder his parents. It is a tragedy that will haunt him forever, and shape his destiny. Now an adult, Alex Hawke works as…
Written by prolific American author Nelson DeMille, this action/suspense series is about a retired cop John Corey who starts working for the FBI to track down terrorists. John Corey is indeed a former homicide detective. He is medically retired from the NYPD with 3 gunshot wounds. He ended up in Long Island where his career…
In truth, this is not really some pure Clancy goodness. Tom Clancy’s Op-Center is a series created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. They didn’t even write the novels. The first 12 books were written by Jeff Rovin. Then in 2014, the series got rebooted by Dick Couch and George Galdorisi. The series talks about…
Written by British author and ex-cop Robert White, The Rich Fuller series is about a SAS hero who turns into a Manchester hit-man with a vengeance. Rick Fuller, a once decorated SAS hero, is now a Manchester hit-man who likes nothing better than disposing of his employer’s rivals in return for a suitcase of cash….
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British author of espionage novels. He died in 2020 and left us with more than 20 books. After working for the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during the ’50s…
