![]() ![]() In le Carré's last novel, a Londoner leaves the city to run a bookshop in a small coastal town. He is one of the most important writers in Russian literature, and Untraceable is both a spy story and a powerful look at the rise of authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union and around the world. The book "Untraceable" by Sergei Lebedev is a good reminder that strongmen, not revolutionary ideals, were the ones who used secret weapons against people who didn't want to follow them. –DM Sergei Lebedev, Untraceable Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Slough House is a great addition to the series, and it's one of the best spy stories that has come out in a while. In modern literature, there's nothing like the Jackson Lamb novels, and there's nothing in the history of espionage literature that is like them. It looks like someone paid for the right to kill them one by one. Because of Brexit and populism, washed-out spies are now up for sale. ![]() The spy lives are more in danger than ever. In this book, the writing has a new, darker tone to it. They keep up with the wild (and very cynical) times in modern Britain. If you like spy shows, you'll love Mick Herron's. Berry skillfully manages the conflicting loyalties in the situation and brings out the humanity in all of her characters as they try to make sense of an impossible decision. What starts out as an uncanny, unsure recognition quickly turns into a life-changing dilemma. She recognizes her own sister, who is supposed to be on vacation on the coast, in the grainy footage. A young mother who works for the BBC in Belfast sees news footage of a robbery by an underground offshoot of the IRA. It's both a portrait of a close-knit family and a complex picture of Northern Ireland's divided loyalties and ambitions today. In The Perfume Thief, the publisher says it's "a Gentleman in Moscow meets the Moulin Rouge." This is a great way to describe the book. Clem, a seventy-year-old perfume artist, is sent on a mission by her songbird client to find a book of perfume recipes that is important to reuniting the chanteuse with her father, a perfumer who is hiding from the Nazis. Timothy Schaffert, The Perfume Thief (Doubleday)ĭuring World War II, this is the book about a queer spy in Paris that I didn't know I needed but now can't live without. – Dwyer Murphy is the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads. Vidich pays close attention to every person who moves through the pages of this vivid, compelling book. They're supposed to pull off a daring operation that has never been done before in the history of the FBI. All of this means that no one can be trusted, and no one can be trusted at all. And the CIA wants someone who used to be a defector to lead the team. He needs to be taken out of Moscow, which has never been done by the CIA. One of the top KGB officers has been talking to the CIA about defecting. The Mercenary takes us back to the last years of the Soviet Union, when both sides were suspicious of each other and every interaction seemed to be a plan. This year, Paul Vidich comes out with a real stunner, with a well-researched and heartfelt look at one of the most important people in the world. These are some of the best spy novels written today. CrimeReads Senior Editor Molly Odintz says this: Paul Vidich, The Mercenary (Pegasus) The two play an epic game of cat-and-mouse with gasp-worthy consequences. As soon as an underling notices a suspicious use of data, things start to heat up. ![]() She sends sensitive information to her Russian handlers when she's not crushing the competition for her social media company employer or being the keynote speaker at yet another conference on work/life balance. Then, 12 years later, she's one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. As a child in 2006, Julia Lerner is an orphan from Moscow who has a computer science degree. Kathy Wang, Impostor Syndrome (Custom House)Īs a side dish, there is a lot of sarcastic humor and fierce feminist activism in this book.
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