14. Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius Buy on Amazon Add to library This American classic focuses more on the diplomatic side of spy work than the out-and-out action, but the depth and complexity of this fascinatingly plausible novel is more than enough to make up for the lack of moto...
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The bestspy moviesinvite audiences into a world of intrigue, danger, and action. James Bond is undoubtedly the first character to spring to mind when the genre is discussed, and while Ian Fleming's 007 surely helped to raise its popularity and inspire imitators, the spy movie was around lon...
Some spy movies are packed with action in order to hold together a shaky plot that muddles ideas of selling secrets, planning attacks or plotting a hostile takeover. The beauty ofTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, based on the John le Carré novel of the same name, is that it takes its ti...
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5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) A Cold War thriller with one of the strongest casts that you’ll ever see, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a movie that focuses on creating a perpetual sense of doom. Based on John le Carre’s novel of the same name, the movie’s main crux revolves...
Based on the Tom Clancy novel, The Hunt for Red October is maybe the best submarine spy film. (We're counting Das Boot as a war movie, so calm down.) Stream It Here Buena Vista Pictures Enemy of the State (1998) The film will probably feel more prescient than paranoid these days ...
If there’s a thriller out there more exhilarating, sexier or packed with iconic moments than this one, we’ve yet to see it. The greatest joy in Alfred Hitchcock’s spy caper is how effortless it all feels: a gliding magic-carpet ride from New York to Mount Rushmore, via Chicago and...
Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy 4. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum The Bourne Identity is a bestselling novel and popular film franchise. Book one of the Jason Bourne series, The Bourne Identity, is claimed to be one of the best spy books of all time. It introduces a main character ...
Swanson’s second novel reimagines a classic Patricia Highsmith book as two strangers, Ted and Lily, meeting on an airplane rather than on a train, and one of them being a woman — which makes the “deal” they strike to co-murder Ted’s wife all the more interesting. Of course, Ted...