Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands

Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent

John Buchan: the Richard Hannay novels

Eric Ambler: all novels

Alistair MacLean: all novels

Graham Greene: The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Third Man

Len Deighton: the Harry Palmer novels

Len Deighton: the Bernard Samson novels

John Le Carre

Mick Herron - The Slough House/Jackson Lamb books

Robert Ludlum

Tom Clancy

Ian Fleming

Charlie Higson: the Young Bond novels


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