Hi all,
I'm a fan of thriller books/geopolitical intrigue/spy stuff. Robert Ludlum is probably my favorite writer for this kind of stuff.
I have to take a step back from anything that has the US as a "good guy", given current threats of annexation for my country (Canada) coming from there, I don't want to read a glorification of our enemies, which happens to be basically the whole genre.
Is there anything like that somewhere?
by Acebulf
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John Le Carre springs to mind, although you’ve probably read those already.
Alan Furst, although American, wrote a whole run of spy/thriller novels about Europeans set in and around WWII. I believe the series is called Night Soldiers, but you don’t have to read them in order or anything like that.
The Day of the Jackal is another one, if you haven’t read that one yet. Or The Odessa File, also by Forsyth, maybe?
The US is not going to annex Canada, don’t let the red hat nut cases get you down. Although I suppose a lot of rationale thinking people said the same thing in the early ‘30’s… That aside, try Daniel Silva – Israeli spy thrillers, good protagonist, Mossad spy service at the front and center.
I really enjoyed a book called Thieves Emporium by Max Hernandez. It’s not really a geopolitical thriller, but it definitely does not paint the US in a great light.
I learned a bit about the manipulation of the money supply, and how far the gov will go to protect it; the dark web and how it operates (assuming it wasn’t BS); and the mindset of the really, really rich when they are worried about the masses being angry.