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Daniel Silva (2003) The English Assassin. Signet Silva, a former CNN correspondent, has created an crisp spy thriller in which a Mossad agent gets entangled in Switzerland's secretive power structure and has to fight for his life. More... 
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Tom Clancy (2002) The Sum of All Fears. Berkley The trademark of Tom Clancy's series of Jack Ryan action thrillers is the accurate description of military hardware and procedure. But there is more than a dramatic story line and nail-biting tension: Clancy has a deep understanding of international political conflicts and he is able to realistically paint fundamental human responses to extreme danger and unbarable pressure. More... 
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Eric Ambler (2002) Journey Into Fear. Vintage Mr. Graham, a naval ordnance engineer for an English armament manufacturer is assisting Turkey during WWII to modernize their navy, when he finds himself the object of an assassination plot headed up by a German agent named Moeller. Graham, an ordinary fellow, outwitts the professional killers. More... 
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Eric Ambler (2001) The Mask for Dimitrios / A Coffin for Dimitrios. (First published 1939) Vintage Ambler's story of a mystery writer in Istanbul, who gets himself involved with the criminal and spy Dimitrios, is a true classic. Dimitrios' corpse has just been fished out of the Bosporus by the police. As the writer sets out to discover Dimitrios' past, someone is stalking him on his trail from Smyrna to Athens to Sofia. More... 
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Gerald Seymour (2001) A Line in the Sand. Pocket Well-plotted spy thriller in which a seemingly ordinary man with an extraordinary past, fights against an Iranian assassin, the British secret service, and friends and neighbors in the small Suffolk village. More... 
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William Goldman (2001) Marathon Man. Ballantine Books An epic, fast-paced thriller with just enough humor to prevent you from getting overwhelmed by the violence, evil and sadism. Made into a movie with Dustin Hoffman. More...
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Robert Ludlum (2001) The Prometheus Deception. St. Martin's Paperbacks The book is about an agent named Nick Bryson, alias Jonas Barett, alias Jonathan Coleridge, alias The Technician. He works for an ultra-clandestine agency known only as the Directorate. Bryson is thrown into a fight between an organization he knows as Prometheus and his former employers at the Directorate. Hair-raising episodes, latest spy gadgetry, and, of course, a brain-knotting plot. More... 
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Frederick Forsyth (1999) The Day of the Jackal. (Reprint Ed.) Langensch.-Hachette First published in 1971, the Jackal created a new genre: realistic spy fiction. Forsyth didn't bother with fantasy espionage (a la James Bond), but depicted a brutal and nasty world of evildoers. The plot is about an attempt to murder General DeGaulle of France. Most reviewers consider the novel as the gold standard of spy fiction. More...
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