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Daniel Silva Author Read Alikes September 2020 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Daniel Silva, try these authors whose titles are also accessible through Digital Library of Illinois (Overdrive and Libby apps) and Hoopla |
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Total Power
by Vince Flynn
When an ISIS plot devastates America’s power grid, Mitch Rapp and his CIA team race to find the responsible cyberterrorists to prevent the nation from succumbing to total collapse. By the best-selling author of Red War.
Scheduled release date: September 15, 2020 - place holds on physical copy now.
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Agent Running in the Field
by John Le Carré
Desperate to resist the political turbulence of his 2018 London home, a young man establishes connections that lead him down a dark and dangerous path. By the best-selling author of A Legacy of Spies.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby
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The Siberian Dilemma
by Martin Cruz Smith
When his lover fails to return from a deep-cover assignment, Moscow investigator Arkady Renko embarks on a dangerous journey involving the rise of a political dissident who threatens Putin’s rule. By the award-winning author of Gorky Park.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Coldest Warrior
by Paul Vidich
When the release of the Rockefeller Commission report implicates the CIA in the death of a bioweapons scientist decades earlier, agent Jack Gabriel confronts a life-threatening cover-up at the highest levels of government.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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The Moroccan Girl
by Charles Cumming
A simple assignment for MI6 during a literary festival lands successful novelist Kit Carradine on the trail of Lara Bartok, a dangerous fugitive and revolutionary leader who is being targeted by the world's competing intelligence services.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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American Spy
by Lauren Wilkinson
Marie Mitchell, a Cold War FBI intelligence officer, joins an undercover task force to undermine Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary Communist president of Burkina Faso, who she secretly admires and comes to love, in a novel inspired by true events.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Invisible
by Andrew Grant
An army veteran and intelligence agent goes undercover as a janitor at a federal courthouse to pursue his own brand of justice when the trial of his father's killer becomes subject to jury tampering. By the author of False Witness.
Physical copy available only.
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Red, White, Blue
by Lea Carpenter
Mourning the charismatic father who died suspiciously the day before her wedding, Anna becomes estranged from her new husband before meeting an enigmatic stranger who alludes to her father's secret past.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Cuban Affair
by Nelson DeMille
When his shaky finances compel him to accept a lucrative job for a 10-day fishing tournament to Cuba, Army combat veteran-turned-charter boat captain Mac learns that one of his clients is seeking to claim millions hidden by her grandfather, who was forced to flee Castro's revolution years earlier.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Under Occupation
by Alan Furst
A historical novel based on the true stories of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany finds a young member of the French resistance in occupied Paris navigating increasingly dangerous assignments and the machinations of an enigmatic spy.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott
A tale of spycraft, love and sacrifice inspired by the true story of Doctor Zhivago follows the efforts of two CIA agents to help publish Boris Pasternak’s censored masterpiece against a backdrop of Cold War politics in Moscow.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Orphan X
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Using his skills as an elite former agent and assassin to advocate anonymously for desperate people, Evan Smoak finds himself pursued by someone with comparable training who would exploit his life of service to find and eliminate him.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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A Spy in Time
by Imraan Coovadia
Enver Eleven is twenty-five years old and ready for adventure. He's the Agency's newest recruit, eager to leap through his first gate into an unfamiliar time. In Enver's home city of Johannesburg, fair-skinned people are a rarity and have been for centuries. The people of Johannesburg were spared the ravages of the apocalypse because of the thousands of miles of mining tunnels running beneath it. The Agency's thinking machines have set his first mission for Marrakesh, circa 1955. His handler is the tough and taciturn Shanumi Six. Their mission: prevent the apocalypse from happening again. But when a cabal of temporal chaos-bringers kidnaps Shanumi, Enver must strike out across the timeline's hotspots-Rio de Janeiro 1967, Johannesburg 2271-on a mission to preserve our very existence. His journeys put him in the middle of a catastrophe, which will force him to put his assumptions to the test in an atmosphere of conspiracy and intrigue.
Available on Hoopla.
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The Mulberry Bush
by Charles McCarry
Falling in love with a famous Argentinean revolutionary's daughter who he hopes will further his ambition to exact revenge against the handlers who ended his father's career years earlier, a maverick spy is caught in a web of deceit with ties to the Cold War.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Moscow Sleepers
by Stella Rimington
Liz Carlyle and Peggy Kinsolving uncover a Russian plot to undermine the German government and travel from Montreal to Moscow in order to stop them.
Physical copy available only.
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The Chemist
by Stephenie Meyer
An ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Young Philby
by Robert Littell
A work of suspense based on true-life historical characters imagines the early years and long-time Russian allegiance of double agent Kim Philby, whose 1963 defection from Britain's intelligence service to Moscow exposes the Cambridge Five double agents and raises innumerable questions about his ideals.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy amidst the intrigue and violence of the French war with the Vietminh, while his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on. Fowler's mistress, a beautiful native girl, creates a catalyst for jealousy and competition between the men and a cultural clash resulting in bloodshed and deep misgivings. Written in 1955 prior to the Vietnam conflict, The Quiet American foreshadows the events leading up to the Vietnam conflict.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Goodbye to an Old Friend
by Brian Freemantle
At the height of the Cold War, a British intelligence agent investigates a Russian defector with a deadly secret Adrian Dodds is a man without hobbies, friends, or family, who works a very peculiar job. Though he looks like a pencil pusher, he is a British counter-intelligence agent. In his own quiet, bureaucratic way, Dodds is vital to the security of the United Kingdom. His latest assignment is debriefing Viktor Pavel, a Soviet aeronautics genius who escapes his handlers to become the Cold War's most high-profile defector. Can he be trusted, or was he sent over as part of an elaborate Russian ruse? The truth is more complex than Dodds can imagine.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Who is Vera Kelly?
by Rosalie Knecht
New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself.
Waitlist on Overdrive/ Libby- place holds there now.
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